This paper describes an alternative view of the internationalization process in higher education by comparing the traditional and non-traditional indicators on how the level of internationalization is measured; additionally, barriers that exist on both sides are reviewed and discussed. As higher education institutions are very accustomed to and focused on the number of international students, i...

The article is devoted to the problems of environmental education. idea expressed that ecological education population most important means overcoming crisis. A brief review definitions concept “environmental education”, as well some concepts education, made. main attention paid complex developed on basis Moscow International University and Laboratory for Cognitive Research Consciousness named ...

Cognitive impairment is a prominent feature of schizophrenia. The availability of brief measures may increase the use of cognitive assessment in routine care settings. We examined the reliability and validity of the Brief Cognitive Assessment (BCA), a battery that takes less than 15 minutes to administer and score, and that was designed to be sensitive to changes in cognition with novel antipsy...

There is evidence that body fat is inversely associated with cognitive functioning in adults from the general population, and this has been associated with systemic inflammation. The association between body fat and cognition might further be augmented in the presence of an immune-mediated, inflammatory disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS). This cross-sectional study investigated the associa...

OBJECTIVES: To develop a 10-minute cognitive screening tool (Montreal Cognitive Assessment,MoCA) to assist firstline physicians in detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a clinical state that often progresses to dementia. DESIGN: Validation study. SETTING: A community clinic and an academic center. PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-four patients meeting MCI clinical criteria supported by psychometric...

We examined how responses to aversive pictures affected performance and stimulus-locked event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded during a demanding cognitive task. Numeric Stroop stimuli were brief ly presented to either left or right visual hemifield (LVF and RVF, respectively) after a centrally presented aversive or neutral picture from the International Affective Picture System. Subjects ind...

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of treatment on reducing the additional psychiatric symptoms in a sample of recovered depressed patients. methods: a sample of 354 remitted depressed subjects recruited through community advertisement and clinical practices of psychiatrists and psychotherapists were randomly assigned to mindfulness based cognitive therapy (mbct), c...