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Study shows brain connectivity is disrupted in schizophrenia
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental condition marked by psychosis, is thought to be caused by the disorganisation of brain connections and functional integration. A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging by Elsevier discovers variations in fu
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New study could help understand neural underpinnings of schizophrenia
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental condition marked by psychosis, is thought to be caused by the disorganisation of brain connections and functional integration
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Research reveals brain connectivity is disrupted in schizophrenia
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental illness characterised by psychosis, is hypothesised to result from disorganisation in brain connections and functional integration. A recent study published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging finds changes in func
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Study uses brain imaging to investigate uncertainty processing in OCD
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurological ailment described by compulsive repetitive actions such as cleaning and checking even when there is evident objective confirmation that the environment is clean, organised, and proper.
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Study sheds more light into processing uncertainty in obsessive-compulsive
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
A recent study in the Elsevier journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging employs brain imaging to take a deeper look at the mechanisms underlying uncertainty processing in OCD.
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Scientists reveal how living alone can put people with cognitive decline a
Updated : 3 months ago IST
One in every four senior Americans with dementia or mild cognitive impairment lives alone, making them vulnerable to risky driving, wandering outside the home, mixing up medications, and skipping appointments.
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Researchers reveal how living alone can put people with cognitive decline
Updated : 3 months ago IST
According to a study led by UC San Francisco and published in JAMA Network Open on August 18, 2023, patients living alone with cognitive decline, whose numbers are expected to rise as the population ages, are not effectively served by the American health system.
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Mild cognitive impairment in older persons can make daily decisions diffic
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
MCI is a type of cognitive ability loss that can occur before Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia. People with MCI have some memory and reasoning problems, but they can live relatively independent lives.
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MIND diet associated with better focus in school children: Study
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to a recent study, a diet designed to help adults prevent cognitive decline may also help preadolescents pay more attention. The results may be useful for upcoming nutritional initiatives that aim to improve children's cognitive abilities.
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Study finds how MIND diet associated with better focus in school-aged chil
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
A recent study suggested that a diet created to assist prevent cognitive decline in adults may also help increase attention in preadolescents. Future nutritional programmes aiming at enhancing children's cognition may benefit from the findings.
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Study finds how excessive salt consumption associated with cognitive disor
Updated : 5 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Dementia is described as a loss of cognitive functioning, which included thinking, remembering, and reasoning, and it is quite common in Japan. At the moment, treatment satisfaction for dementia is among the lowest, and no medication therapy to cure the condition is available. With the world
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Researchers reveal how older adults gets easily distracted
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A University of California, Riverside study found that when older persons are engaged in a physically demanding job, such as driving a car or carrying groceries, they are more prone than younger ones to be distracted by objects unrelated to the task at hand.
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