Published in Acta psychologica
While exercise was found to affect cognitive performance in adolescents, the underlying mechanisms need to be considered. This study compared the effect of a 20 min game-based exercise with different intensities on hormonal responses and potential links to cognitive performance. 37 adolescents (24 girls and 13 boys; 15-16 years of age) were randoml...
Published in Aging & mental health
This study set out to examine both the longitudinal association between tooth status and cognitive performance among older adults in Europe, and the mediating effects of loneliness and quality of life on this association. We conducted a prospective analysis using data from 38,614 participants aged 50 or older, taken from the Survey of Health, Agein...
Published in Journal of sport and health science
Active video games are a new method for increasing physical activity (PA). Fully immersive virtual reality (VR) is a hardware device on which an active video game can run. Active (video games in) VR (AVR), might increase immersion, game engagement, and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), thereby yielding greater exercise-related benefits, e.g., cogniti...
Published in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
In the neuroHIV literature, cognitive reserve has most often been operationalized using education, occupation, and IQ. The effects of other cognitively stimulating activities that might be more amenable to interventions have been little studied. The purpose of this study was to develop an index of cognitive reserve in people with HIV, combining mul...
Published in Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
Major depressive disorder (MDD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) are known to share clinical comorbidity and to have genetic overlap. Besides their shared genetics, both diseases seem to be associated with alterations in brain structural connectivity and impaired cognitive performance, but little is known about the mechanisms by which genetic ris...
Published in Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Introduction: The educational background and size of the elderly population are undergoing significant changes in Finland during the 2020s. A similar process is likely to occur also in several European countries. For cognitive screening of early Alzheimer’s disease (AD), using outdated norms and cutoff scores may negatively affect clinical accuracy...
Published in Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
The aim of the study was to examine the neuropsychological performance and effort in patients with a confirmed PNES diagnosis. The second aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between validity indicators from the cognitive battery with validity and clinical scales from a personality scale. Patients with PNES (N = 250; F:M 186:64; mea...
Published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
The gut and brain link via various metabolic and signalling pathways, each with the potential to influence mental, brain and cognitive health. Over the past decade, the involvement of the gut microbiota in gut–brain communication has become the focus of increased scientific interest, establishing the microbiota–gut–brain axis as a field of research...
Psychobiotics include a novel class of probiotic microorganisms that convey benefit upon the host's mental health via the dynamic microbiota-gut-brain crosstalk. Research is bolstering the concept that gut bacteria are involved in the transmission of information between the gut and the brain, engaging neural, immune, and endocrine pathways. Factors...
Published in Heliyon
Heat; Cognitive performance; Petrochemical company; Continuous performance; Working memory.
