Cognitive impairment in COPD: should cognitive evaluation be part of respiratory assessment?

Cognitive impairment in COPD: should cognitive evaluation be part of respiratory assessment?

Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in patients with COPD and demonstrates multiple detrimental effects on many aspects of patient state and therapeutic outcomes. It is attributed to several overlapping pathophysiological factors, with the most common being the low level of oxygen saturation due to respiratory insufficiency. Despite the impact of cognitive impairment on clinical outcomes, ...

Should Anthropology Be Part of Cognitive Science?

Anthropology and the other cognitive science (CS) subdisciplines currently maintain a troubled relationship. With a debate in topiCS we aim at exploring the prospects for improving this relationship, and our introduction is intended as a catalyst for this debate. In order to encourage a frank sharing of perspectives, our comments will be deliberately provocative. Several challenges for a succes...

Cholinesterase inhibitors should not be prescribed for mild cognitive impairment.

Evaluation of Relationship Between Depression and Cognitive Impairment in Elderly

Objectives: Depression and cognitive impairments are the most common problem among elderlypeople that both of them cause decreasing the quality of life and functionality and increasing mortality rate. The aim of this study is determination of relationship between depression and cognitive impairments. Methods & Materials: In these cross sectional study we use Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) ...

Pre-existing cognitive impairment and post-operative cognitive dysfunction: should we be talking the same language?

Changes in cognition are known to follow anesthesia and surgery in older individuals (Evered et al., 2011). Although survival per se was the prime outcome in the 19th and early 20th centuries for invasive procedures, a link was none-the-less observed with adverse cognitive outcomes as far back as 1887 (Savage, 1887). Historical reports of "insanity" or "weak mindedness" after anesthesia appeare...