INTRODUCTION There is mounting evidence for the influence of emotional content on working memory performance. This is particularly important in light of the emotion processing that needs to take place when emotional content interferes with executive functions. In this study, we used emotional words of different valence but with similar arousal levels in an n-back task. METHODS We examined the...

Functional neuroimaging techniques enable noninvasive measurements of cognitive functions in humans. We used functional neuroimaging to assess cognitive disturbance in a patient with mild cognitive impairment. The patient was a 58-year-old male with a mild memory disturbance, a mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score of 22 30, and a Clinical Dementia Rating Scale of 0.5. On the Wechsler Adul...

This paper proposes a theory of how conscious emotional experience is produced by the brain as the result of many interacting brain areas coordinated in working memory. These brain areas integrate perceptions of bodily states of an organism with cognitive appraisals of its current situation. Emotions are neural processes that represent the overall cognitive and somatic state of the organism. Co...

the multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic disease of cns leads to some dysfunctions including cognitive (working memory), mood (depression) and fatigue. in spite of previous investigations about working memory impairment in patients with ms, there are scare evidences for working memory dysfunction in mild disabled ms patients (edss

Physiological hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle, postpartum, and menopause have been implicated in the modulation of mood, cognition, and affective disorders. Taking into account that women's performance in memory tasks can also fluctuate with circulating hormones levels across the menstrual cycle, the cognitive performance in a working memory task for emotional facial expression...