Social Competence
Diane Gibson in Group Protocols: A Psychosocial Compendium, 2014
Cognitive Functioning Is reality oriented and demonstrates organized thought processes most of the time.Should be able to follow two to three oral directions.Has a 30- to 45-minute attention span most of the time.Must be cooperative to attempting tasks (but may need staff encouragement).Demonstrates concrete thinking (inability to generalize and abstract).Seldom assumes responsibility for his/her own actions, thoughts, and feelings.Difficulty making decisions and problem-solving.
The Convergence of Digital Health Technologies: The Role of Digital Therapeutics in the Future Healthcare System
Oleksandr Sverdlov, Joris van Dam in Digital Therapeutics, 2023
There is a dearth of available tools and interventions in the field of CNS illnesses, aside from physiologic symptoms with well-understood traits or post-mortem cranial analyses for disease-related pathologies. In this regard, digital endpoints and digital therapeutics could likely have a marked impact. While the purpose of a digital therapeutic (to intervene) is different from the purpose of a digital measurement or diagnostic (to assess), these technologies are poised for rapid convergence. First, the technical solutions are highly interconnected. An exercise assessment at a local gym can be easily extended into a personalized daily exercise routine to improve function. A measurement test for cognitive functioning can easily be expanded into a therapeutic intervention to train cognitive function. An exercise assessment at a local gym can be easily extended into a personalized daily exercise routine to improve function. A digital measurement application on a person's smartphone that assesses mood from voice modulations can easily trigger intervention from a digital therapeutic app delivering cognitive behavioral therapy. And technically, digital therapeutic applications can be easily loaded as firmware on any digital measurement device. E.g., a pill-dispensing device that also provides medication management support. Digital endpoints for early diagnosis appear to be exceptionally well suited to trigger digital therapeutics for early preventive care.
The Psychiatric Interview
Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay in Essentials of Psychiatric Assessment, 2018
Cognition refers to the ability to use the higher cortical functions including thinking, logic, reasoning, attention, and memory, though, a lot could be inferred about cognition from the whole examination. Assessment of cognition involves administration of specific tests of cognitive abilities. Formal cognitive examination is usually divided into the following domains: OrientationAttention and concentrationMemoryAbstraction and conceptualizationIntelligenceFund of knowledge.
The psychological consequences of (perceived) ionizing radiation exposure: a review on its role in radiation-induced cognitive dysfunction
Published in International Journal of Radiation Biology, 2020
George Collett, Kai Craenen, William Young, Mary Gilhooly, Rhona M. Anderson
Cognitive functioning refers to mental abilities such as learning, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and attention (Fisher et al. 2019). The maintenance of cognitive function is crucial to maintain function at all ages. For example, cognitive abilities have been identified as predictors of school performance in children (Welsh et al. 2010), work performance in adults (Salthouse 1994; Salthouse 2012), and for maintaining independent living (Willis et al. 2006; Jekel et al. 2015) and positive well-being in older adults (Llewellyn et al. 2008). Factors such as physical activity, education, occupational status, and cognitively stimulating activity can help preserve cognitive functioning (Sofi et al. 2011; Opdebeeck et al. 2016), while factors such as excessive smoking (Anstey et al. 2007), alcohol consumption (Anstey et al. 2009), and certain genes such as the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (Beydoun et al. 2012) have been associated with cognitive dysfunction.
Does familial Mediterranean fever affect cognitive function in children? Electrophysiological preliminary study
Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2018
Gonca Keskindemirci, Gökçer Eskikurt, Nuray Aktay Ayaz, Mustafa Çakan, Numan Ermutlu, Ümmühan İşoğlu Alkaç
Cognitive functioning includes the processing of mental events such as attention, recognition, memory, and executive functions. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method for recording the electrical activity of the brain along the scalp. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are derived from EEGs and are commonly used as noninvasive physiological measures of cognitive function. ERPs are obtained by averaging EEG sweeps that are time-locked to stimuli or related to a mental operation concerning stimuli, such as paying attention to a certain type of stimulus. P300, a component of ERP, appears at nearly 300 ms post-stimulus, is positively deflected waveform, and has been linked to the cognitive processes involved in the allocation of attention, context updating, context closure, event categorization, and working memory [5–8]. The amplitude of P300 is thought to reflect the quantity of attentional resources devoted to a given task, and its latency is considered to be a measure of stimulus classification speed or evaluation time [9–11]. Developmental studies have shown that the latency of auditory P300 is significantly shortened in teenagers and that visual latency decreases steadily with age [12]. Additionally, P300 abnormalities have been reported in association with mental disorders involving attention and memory [13]. A few studies have investigated ERPs in adult patients with inflammatory disease such as Behçet disease [13,14]. Although there is no definitive evaluation of FMF in the literature, we aimed to determine the cognitive function of children with FMF by comparing their ERPs-P300 to those of healthy controls.
Cognitive functioning of female nurses during the night shift: The impact of age, clock time, time awake and subjective sleepiness
Published in Chronobiology International, 2018
Several individual factors have been investigated in association with cognitive functioning in the context of laboratory and field studies. Age has been associated with cognitive impairment during sleep deprivation, although the findings are inconclusive (Alhola and Polo-Kantola 2007; Costa and Di Milia 2008; Silva et al. 2010). Thus, findings of a laboratory sleep restriction study demonstrated that with increasing age, the accumulating effects of sleep loss on performance are less pronounced (Bliese et al. 2006). In a forced desynchrony study, older participants (mean age 64 y) exhibited enhanced and more stable performance measures over time compared with younger subjects (mean age 24.5 y), suggesting that healthy older adults are less vulnerable to the effects of repeated circadian desychrony on performance (Silva et al. 2010).
Related Knowledge Centers
- Attention
- Intelligence
- Memory
- Perception
- Working Memory
- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Intellect
- Thought
- Imagination