In demented patients, depressive symptoms as well as cognition and clinical comorbidities can interact and induce a complex condition of severity and handicap. Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of depressive symptoms in cognitively impaired patients on associated clinical comorbidities in geriatric patients. Methods One-hundred-thirty-eight (138) patients w...

Vitamin C plays a role in neuronal differentiation, maturation, myelin formation and modulation of the cholinergic, catecholinergic, and glutaminergic systems. This review evaluates the link between vitamin C status and cognitive performance, in both cognitively intact and impaired individuals. We searched the PUBMED, SCOPUS, SciSearch and the Cochrane Library from 1980 to January 2017, finding...

Few studies have examined the performance of the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) among older adults with cognitive impairment. The GDS-15 was administered to 166 cognitively impaired and 144 cognitively normal older volunteers. We compared the two groups on total score, individual item endorsement, and three factor scores: General Depressive Affect, Withdrawal, and Life Satisfaction...

Research consistently shows that groups composed of cognitively diverse individuals develop more effective approaches in solving complex problems, and generate more creative and innovative ideas relative to groups that are not cognitively diverse (Hoffman & Maier, 1961; Hong & Page, 2004; Page, 2007; Johnson, 2008). The concept of cognitive diversity is defined as the degree to which group memb...

This study further examines the failure of game form recognition in preference elicitation (Cason and Plott, 2014) by making more cognitively demanding through a cognitive load manipulation. We hypothesized that if subjects misperceive one for another game, then depleting their resources, would misconceive more-cognitively task less-cognitively at higher rate. find no evidence suffer from first...

4 Katja Heikkinen COGNITIVELY EMPOWERING INTERNET-BASED PATIENT EDUCATION FOR AMBULATORY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY PATIENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis Turku 2011 ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to create and evaluate an Internet-based patient education programme aiming to cognitively empower ambulatory orthopaed...