The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

It got this name because the presumption was that cognitive impairment after bypass surgery was related to the use of the cardiopulmonary bypass pump during the procedure. For a long time, talk about ...

Instead, we might be seeing the emergence of two distinct cognitive cultures: the Symbionts and the Sovereigns. Two distinct perspectives that—philosophically and functionally—engage with ...

Summary: A new study has identified three psychological profiles that influence brain health, cognitive decline, and dementia risk in aging adults. Profiles with high protective traits, like purpose ...

Mild cognitive impairment is when a person starts to have problems with their memory or thinking. It can be a sign of a disease that will eventually cause dementia but MCI is not dementia and can be ...

Cognitive control is the process by which goals or plans influence behaviour. Also called executive control, this process can inhibit automatic responses and influence working memory. Cognitive ...

All participants received the NIHTB Cognition Battery as an assessment of multiple cognitive domains. We obtained unadjusted scaled scores for the ... These images can be viewed in an HTML report and ...

However, it’s never too late for the brain to get at least some benefit from living more healthily. Mild cognitive impairment is when a person starts to have problems with their memory or thinking. It ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, returns ...

Older adults are more likely to suffer attention difficulties when home temperatures fall outside 68–75 °F. This study highlights the need for climate-resilient housing policies to protect seniors’ ...

Jeurry, who is now 26 and was diagnosed with a mild intellectual disability after graduating high school, requested that his ...