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The impact of time and repeated exposure on famous person knowledge in amnestic Mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
(2017)
Objective: Famous people knowledge has been shown to be impaired early in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However, the question of whether recently acquired knowledge is more impaired ...
Comprehension of concrete and abstract words in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease: a behavioral and neuroimaging study
(2017-04-20)
The aim of this study was to investigate the comprehension of concrete, abstract and abstract emotional words in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and healthy elderly adults ...
The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography
(Nature research, 2017-11-07)
Tractography based on non-invasive diffusion imaging is central to the study of human brain connectivity. To date, the approach has not been systematically validated in ground truth studies. Based on a simulated human brain ...
Attachment security and developmental patterns of growth in executive functioning during early elementary school
Growth in executive functionning
(Wiley, 2017-05)
Despite the extensive research demonstrating the importance of child executive functioning (EF) for school adjustment, little longitudinal work has formally examined developmental change in EF during the early school years. ...
Electrophysiological impact of multiple concussions in asymptomatic athletes: a re-analysis based on alpha activity during a visual-spatial attention task
(2017-11-22)
Most EEG studies used event-related potentials to assess long-term and cumulative effects of sport-related concussions on brain activity. Time-frequency methods provide another approach that allows the detection of subtle ...
Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s school readiness: A longitudinal study of developmental processes
(2017-02)
This study aimed to test a five-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children’s school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful ...
Parallel recovery of consciousness and sleep in acute traumatic brain injury
(American Academy of Neurology, 2017)
Objective: To investigate whether the progressive recuperation of consciousness was associated
with the reconsolidation of sleep and wake states in hospitalized patients with acute traumatic
brain injury (TBI).
Methods: ...
How do mothers with borderline personality disorder mentalize when interacting with their infants?
(2017-02-01)
Mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been theorized to have
decreased mentalization ability, which is the capacity to perceive and interpret
mental states. This could increase the risk for ...
Associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep throughout early childhood
(2017-09-02)
Despite strong theoretical reasons to believe that the quality of parent-infant interactions
should influence child sleep, the empirical evidence for links between maternal behavior
and children’s sleep is equivocal. ...
Maternal psychosocial maladjustment and child internalizing symptoms: Investigating the modulating role of maternal sensitivity
(2017-01)
In light of evidence suggesting that maternal adaptation may impact early child
emotional development, this study investigated the interactive effects of
maternal psychosocial maladjustment and maternal ...