Search results for "Verbal"

Correlation of cognition and FDG-PET findings in early multiple sclerosis

2007

Introduction: Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), disease history of 11.5 years, an expanded disability status scale (EDSS) up to 6.0 and an involvement of verbal and/or spatial and long-term memory showed a bilateral reduction of glucose metabolism in the cingulate gyrus, thalamus, associative occipital cortex and cerebellum. To our knowledge no similar studies in early stages of MS are reported. Therefore we stressed the question of possible correlation of quality of life, objective cognitive impairment and FDG-PET findings in newly diagnosed definite MS according to McDonald criteria. Methods: In 11 patients (f=4, m=7, mean age: 35 years (CI 25–42), IQ 112 (CI 97–118)) with newly diag…

Validating an Efficient Method to Quantify Motion Sickness

2011

Objective: Motion sickness (MS) can be a debilitating side effect associated with motion in real or virtual environments. We analyzed the effect of expectancy on MS and propose and validate a fast and simple MS measure.Background: Several questionnaires measure MS before or after stimulus presentation, but no satisfactory tool has been established to quickly capture MS data during exposure. To fill this gap, we introduce the Fast MS Scale (FMS), a verbal rating scale ranging from zero (no sickness at all) to 20 (frank sickness). Also, little is known about the role of expectancy effects in MS studies. We conducted an experiment that addressed this issue.Method: For this study, 126 volunteer…

Brain event-related potentials (ERPs) measured at birth predict later language development in children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

2005

We report associations between brain event-related potentials (ERPs) measured from newborns with and without familial risk for dyslexia and these same children's later language and verbal memory skills at 2.5, 3.5, and 5 years of age. ERPs to synthetic consonant-vowel syllables (/ba/, /da/, /ga/; presented equiprobably with 3,910-7,285 msec interstimulus intervals) were recorded from 26 newborns at risk for familial dyslexia and 23 control infants participating in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia. The correlation and regression analyses showed that the at-risk type of response pattern at birth (a slower shift in polarity from positivity to negativity in responses to /ga/ at 540-…

Low Serum Choline Concentrations Are Associated with Worse Cognitive Performance in Subjects with Metabolic Syndrome

2020

OBJECTIVES: Choline is an essential nutrient critical for components of the cell membrane, such as choline-containing phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin), and in synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Choline has been shown to exert neuroprotective effects, but the association between serum choline and cognitive performance has been scarcely investigated. Our aims are: 1) To study the association between serum total choline, phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin with cognitive performance in subjects with metabolic syndrome; and 2) to analyze genetic variants and dietary intake most associated with cholines in this population. METHODS: We analyzed 426 subjects (a…

The use of the Free Recall Method in the Analysis of Verbal Memory Deficits in Dual Diagnosis Patients

2009

In schizophrenia there are specific cognitive deficits including verbal memory deficits. The objective of this study was to examine short-term verbal memory differences between subjects with and without a dual diagnosis.A group of 80 patients with a diagnose of schizophrenia were examined. 40 of them never used illicit drugs, the other 40 also received a diagnose of addiction to psychoactive substances. The Free Recall Method was used to compare two examined groups. The results of addicted and not addicted schizophrenic patients were analyzed in all trials of the 5 stages of the examination with the use of Free Recall Method. Persons suffering from schizophrenia can usually repeat much fewe…

2018

Background Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly available data and improved methods. GBD 2017 provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 282 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2017. Methods The causes of death database is composed of vital registration (VR), verbal autopsy (VA), registry, survey…

A Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training Intervention for Patients With Schizophrenia and Its Neural Underpinnings – the Study Protocol of a Randomized C…

2020

Dysfunctional social communication is one of the most stable characteristics in patients with schizophrenia that also affects quality of life. Interpreting abstract speech and integrating nonverbal modalities is particularly affected. Considering the impact of communication on social life but failure to treat communication dysfunctions with usual treatment, we will investigate the possibility to improve verbal and non-verbal communication in schizophrenia by applying a multimodal speech-gesture training (MSG training). Here we describe the newly developed MSG training program and the study design for the first clinical investigation. The intervention contains perceptive rating (match/mismat…

Processi di semplificazione della morfologia verbale in una varietà di italiano parlato

2007

Music Therapy as an Effective Intervention in the Treatment of of Depression in a Patient With Korsakoff's Syndrome

2013

The main aim of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy of the Music Therapy intervention and the possibility of influencing positively on depressive symptoms of a patient with this Syndrome making significant improvements in the general condition and in particular on the “activation versus apathy". The Music Therapy approach is mainly based on a sonorous music relationship between the patient and music therapist. Active Music Therapy facilitates the expressive process, increasing communicative-relational abilities and modulation and regulation of emotions. This approach is based on intersubjective psychological theories and allows “affect attunement” moments. After 24 sessions of Music T…

Tears as powerful visual communication signals: a sociobiological approach

2021

Las denominadas “llamadas de distress” han sido objeto de interés para etólogos, primatólogos y psicólogos por igual, pues representan un comportamiento fuertemente seleccionado en muy distintos grupos zoológicos. De entre todas las llamadas de distress, una de las más peculiares y única de nuestra especie es el derramamiento de lágrimas emocionales. El estudio de las señales no verbales de comunicación alcanza aquí una sutileza mayor que la acostumbrada, pues el estímulo que genera respuestas diferenciales llega a ser tan mínimo como una simple lágrima deslizándose por la mejilla. Para comprender mejor las respuestas empático-afectivas, y el posible valor adaptativo de las lágrimas emocion…