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Alzheimer’s Disease and the Eye (2009)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Even though speech pathologists do not diagnosis visual changes this is an important area to learn more about. SLPs are considered experts for communication and can advocate for our patients even when they are unable. Being aware of the function and pathological changes to the visual system can help us communicate with other medical professionals […]
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INCOG Recommendations for Management of Cognition Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Part II: Attention and Information Processing Speed (2014)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
INCOG recommended clinicians use the MOSS Attention Rating Scale or Rating Scale of Attentional Behavior to determine the patient’s attention abilities. It is critical to determine the patient’s lifestyle and factors that may exacerbate the attentional demands when creating the treatment goals. A variety of treatment approaches were recommended by the INCOG team because of […]
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Age-Related Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline — The Potential Mechanisms Linking the Two (2019)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors of this review article propose four hypotheses to link ARHL with cognitive decline and dementia. Their four hypotheses include 1) cognitive load theory, 2) common cause factor responsible for age-related declines for cognition, 3) cascade hypothesis, 4) overdiagnosis or harbinger hypothesis. The authors also try to answer the question “do hearing aids (or […]
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Impact of Expiratory Strength Training in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (2016)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors had 25 participants who were diagnosed with probable or definite ALS, according to the Revised El-Escorial criteria. All of the participants demonstrated reduced maximum expiratory pressure (MEP) when compared to normative data for his/her gender and age. The forced vital capacity was also greater than 60% for all the participants. The authors used […]
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Long-Term Effects of Brief Hypoxia Due to Cardiac Arrest: Hippocampal Reduction and Memory Deficits (2018)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This study included nine patients who had a myocardial infarction complicated by a brief cardiac arrest (MI with CA), outside of the hospital, that required <7 minutes for initiation of CPR. The control group consisted of nine patients who had a myocardial infarction without a cardiac arrest. The patients participated in this study 5 months […]
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The Posterior Cerebellum is Involved in Constructing Social Action Sequences: An fMRI Study (2019)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Previous research with healthy adults— using fMRI technology—has demonstrated strong activation between the cerebellum and cerebral cortex during the understanding of social events and behaviors. This study wanted to expand upon Van Overwalle et al (2019) research that used picture sequencing (using cartoon drawings) with “false belief ” tasks. These tasks require a person to […]
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Water Supplementation After Dehydration Improves Judgment and Decision-Making Performance (2019)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors had 4 hypotheses for this study: (Hypothesis 1) water consumption would improve sustained attention and executive function test results; (Hypothesis 2) water consumption should also be extended to improve judgment and decision-making tasks; (Hypothesis 3) attention and executive function accuracy will correlate with judgment and decision- making tasks; (Hypothesis 4) The judgement and […]
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Impaired Cognitive Modification for Estimating Time Duration in Parkinson’s Disease (2018)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This study had 20 participants (9 females) with PD—with no signs of dementia—and 20 elderly healthy controls (9 females). Both the Mini-Mental Status Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment were given to all the participants and everyone scored >25. All of the participants were right- handed and there were no significant differences with age. The participants […]
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Self-Focused Processing After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Relationship to Neurocognitive Symptoms (2018)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Severe TBI can negatively impact a person’s capacity for self-reflection and emotional regulation. Self-reflection was broken down into rumination and reflection which are both used to cope with stress or problem solve. Rumination is the negative thoughts or perception of self in regards to losses, threats, or injustices. If this negative self-talk continues with an […]
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Predictive Value of Early MRI Findings on Neurocognitive and Psychiatric Outcomes in Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (2019)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This prospective cross-sectional research study had 251 patients with severe brain injuries and they had an MRI completed within the first month of the injury. The authors defined severe head trauma as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 8 or less during admission with non-surgical resuscitation or the GCS deteriorated to 8 or less during the […]
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