alcohol and cognition; from neurotoxicity prevention to cognitive rehabilitation

Alcohol and Cognition; From Neurotoxicity Prevention to Cognitive Rehabilitation

Alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. Affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. Preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

Neuro-cognition and social-cognition: application to exercise rehabilitation

The discovery of mirror neurons has been recognized as one of the major developments in neuroscience, with possible implications for the explanation of many important cognitive functions, including action and perception understanding, imitation, and empathy. In the mirror neuron system, action observation, imitation, and empathy are represented in the same basic motor circuit as action executio...

Neurotoxicity Related to Snakebite: Treatment,and Prevention

Highest rates of snake envenoming and mortalities in South Asia, Southeast Asia,Sub-Share Africa with India reporting the most deaths. World Health Organization listed snakebite as a neglected disease. Clinical manifestations of snakebite include overwhelming fear, nausea vomiting diarrhea, vertigo, faintingtachycardia, and cold, clammy skin. Most snakes cause neurotoxicity.Paresthesia througho...

The Neurotoxicity of Alcohol

The potential cost to society of alcohol-induced brain damage is enormous. Approximately 14 million Americans—about 7.4 percent of the adult population—meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or alcoholism (Grant et al. 1994). On any given day, more than 700,000 people in the United States receive alcoholism treatment in either inpatient or outpatient settings (National Institute on Alco...

NEuro COgnitive REhabilitation for Disease of Addiction (NECOREDA) Program: From Development to Trial

Despite extensive evidence for cognitive deficits associated with drug use and multiple publications supporting the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation treatment (CRT) services for drug addictions, there are a few well-structured tools and organized programs to improve cognitive abilities in substance users. Most published studies on cognitive rehabilitation for drug dependent patients use...

Central Nervous System Neurotoxicity of Chronic Alcohol Abuse