Previous studies have demonstrated that depletion of Gas7 impedes neurite outgrowth in primary cultures of Purkinje neurons, and that Gas7 promotes neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells. To investigate the physiological function of Gas7, we generated by homologous recombination a Gas7-mutant mouse which produced a Gas7 variant protein with an in-frame deletion of amino acid residues 103–120. Only low...

In grapheme-color synesthesia, a number or letter can evoke two different and possibly conflicting (real and synesthetic) color sensations at the same time. In this study, we investigate the relationship between synesthesia and executive control functions. First, no general skill differences were obtained between synesthetes and non-synesthetes in classic executive control paradigms. Furthermor...

Abstract Background and Purpose: Studies carried out in recent decades show that exercises have useful impact on improving executive functions. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the roles of fitness and aerobic exercises on problem-solving process of dyslexic and dyscalculia children. Materials and methods: Using systematic review study and key terms including fitness and aerobic e...

according to the mother's key roles in bringing up emotional and cognitive abilities of mentally retarded children and respect to positive psychology in recent decades, this research is administered to assess the relation between mother's happiness level with cognitive- executive functions (i.e. attention, working memory, inhibition and planning) and facial emotional recognition ability as two ...

introduction : the purpose of this study was to investigate the executive functions (efs) as the mediators between coping with stress styles and generalized anxiety disorder (gad). we examined two styles of coping with stress (problem focused coping (pfc) and emotion focused coping (efc)) and eight executive functions (inhibition, flexibility, focusing, working memory, decision making, reasonin...