Spatial Memory A Unique Window Into Healthy And Pathological Ageing

Author : Thomas Wolbers,Paul A Dudchenko,Emma R Wood
Publisher : Frontiers E-books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Aging
ISBN : 9782889193868

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Spatial memory – a unique window into healthy and pathological ageing by Thomas Wolbers,Paul A Dudchenko,Emma R Wood Pdf

The global population aged over 60 is set to rise dramatically in the coming decades. In many countries, the older population now faces the prospect of spending a quarter of their lives aged over 65, and a significant proportion will have to cope with cognitive decline associated with normal ageing or with dementia disorders. Given that these fundamental demographic changes will pose a significant challenge to health care systems, a detailed understanding of age-related cognitive and neurobiological changes is essential in helping elderly populations maintain cognitive performance. In addition, developing sensitive biomarkers to identify those at risk of developing dementia is crucial for early and effective interventions. To make inferences about the ageing process from the animal model back to the human, rigorous behavioral paradigms must be used to ensure that the same function is being examined across species. Given that similar navigational paradigms can easily be applied to humans and animals, recent years have seen an expansion of studies attempting to bridge the gap between age-related changes in animal and human spatial cognition. These studies begin to suggest that disruptions in spatial computations are among the earliest indicators of impending cognitive decline. In addition, although many animal studies have identified pathological mechanisms with paradigms involving spatial navigation, these mechanisms support many nonspatial cognitive functions as well. As a consequence, a successful characterization of how spatial processing changes in the ageing brain could reveal fundamental effects of cognitive ageing that could inform about general mechanisms underlying decline in perception, mnemonic processing and multisensory integration.

Author : Giuseppe Riva,Silvia Serino
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783039437757

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Virtual Reality in the Assessment, Understanding and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by Giuseppe Riva,Silvia Serino Pdf

In the computer sciences, virtual reality (VR) is usually described as a set of fancy technologies. However, in medicine and neuroscience, VR is instead defined as an advanced form of human–computer interface that allows the user to interact with and become present in a computer-generated environment. The sense of presence offered by VR makes it a powerful tool for personal change because it offers a world where the individual can stay and live a specific experience. For this reason, the use of VR in mental health shows promise: different types of research support its clinical efficacy for conditions including anxiety disorders, stress-related disorders, obesity and eating disorders, pain management, addiction, and schizophrenia. However, more research is needed to transform VR according to a clinical standard for mental health. This Special Issue aims to present the most recent advances in the mental health applications of VR, as well as their implications for future patient care.

Author : Robert H. Logie,Robin G. Morris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134751969

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Working Memory and Ageing by Robert H. Logie,Robin G. Morris Pdf

The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory. This book brings together international research leaders who address major questions about how age affects working memory: Why is working memory function much better preserved in some people than others? In all healthy adults, which aspects of working memory are retained in later years and which aspects start declining in early adulthood? Can cognitive training help slow cognitive decline with age? How are changes in brain structures, connectivity and activation patterns related to important changes in working memory function? Impairments of cognition, and particularly of working memory, can be major barriers to independent living. The chapters of this book dispel some popular myths about cognitive ageing, while presenting the state of the science on how and why working memory functions as it does throughout the adult lifespan. Working Memory and Aging is the first volume to provide an overview of the burgeoning literature on changes in working memory function across healthy and pathological ageing, and it will be of great interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in psychology and related subject areas concerned with the effects of human ageing, including several areas of medicine.

Author : Nancy Ogden,Michael Boyes,Evelyn Field,Ronald Comer,Elizabeth Gould
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119645313

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Psychology Around Us by Nancy Ogden,Michael Boyes,Evelyn Field,Ronald Comer,Elizabeth Gould Pdf

Psychology Around Us, Fourth Canadian Edition offers students a wealth of tools and content in a structured learning environment that is designed to draw students in and hold their interest in the subject. Psychology Around Us is available with WileyPLUS, giving instructors the freedom and flexibility to tailor curated content and easily customize their course with their own material. It provides today's digital students with a wide array of media content — videos, interactive graphics, animations, adaptive practice — integrated at the learning objective level to provide students with a clear and engaging path through the material. Psychology Around Us is filled with interesting research and abundant opportunities to apply concepts in a real-life context. Students will become energized by the material as they realize that Psychology is "all around us."

Author : Chiara Meneghetti,Ineke Van Der Ham,Francesca Pazzaglia,Michel Denis
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889661886

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Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations by Chiara Meneghetti,Ineke Van Der Ham,Francesca Pazzaglia,Michel Denis Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Philippe Robert,Sophia Antipolis,Iracema Leroi,Valeria Manera
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889197781

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ICT for assessment and rehabilitation in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders by Philippe Robert,Sophia Antipolis,Iracema Leroi,Valeria Manera Pdf

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are no longer objects gathering dust on a shelf; instead, they have become intrinsic in our everyday lives. They are now even taking on an indispensable role in many clinical and rehabilitation settings. In the past decade there has been a surge of interest in using ICT with elderly people, both with and without dementia, in various clinical and research settings. On the one hand, ICT can supplement the assessment of functional ability by more precisely evaluating the nature and extent of functional impairment; on the other hand, ICT can be used to support elderly people in their everyday activities, as well as to ameliorate symptoms and improve quality of life through stimulation and rehabilitation. This is the intention driving the development of Serious Games (SG), which are digital applications (often based on Virtual Reality) specifically adapted for purposes other than entertaining, including rehabilitation, training and education. Finally, ICT can also play a key role in the development of interactive educational programs to support caregivers of people living with dementia. A handful of interesting studies have started to investigate the effectiveness of employing ICT in people with different types of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It is therefore timely to attempt to scope this newly emerging field, as well as to foster a dialogue among the different professionals, including academics, clinicians and computer engineers, working in the area. With this in mind, the Research Topic “ICT for assessment and rehabilitation in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders” aims to provide new and interesting insights into the current use of ICT in healthy and pathological aging. The intent is also to identify challenges and new perspectives in the field, gather recommendations for the application of ICT in AD and related disorders in clinical practice, and to showcase cutting edge clinical research. The articles included in this Frontier Research Topics have more than achieved this aim and are a perfect illustration of how ICT can be used to enhance the lives of people living dementia and their caregivers.

Author : Lutz Jäncke,Mike Martin,Christina Röcke,Susan Mérillat
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889768301

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Longitudinal Aging Research: Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience by Lutz Jäncke,Mike Martin,Christina Röcke,Susan Mérillat Pdf

Author : B.K. Wiederhold,G. Riva
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614994015

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Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2014 by B.K. Wiederhold,G. Riva Pdf

The evolution of healthcare delivery systems has included an increased reliance on technology. There has been a significant shift in the nature of care prevention, diagnosis and treatment, which has decreased the importance of traditional methods of care delivery. Cybertherapy has started to make progress in treating a variety of disorders, but more work is needed in a number of areas, including the development of easy-to-use and more affordable hardware and software and objective measurement tools, the need to address potential side-effects, and the implementation of more controlled studies to evaluate cybertherapy in comparison to traditional therapies._x000D_ This book, the 2014 Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine (ARCTT), presents a carefully structured overview of subjects related to the area of cybertherapy and telemedicine. The book is divided into six sections. An introductory editorial explains the focus of this year's issue, and is followed by a section entitled Critical Reviews, which summarises and examines emerging cybertherapy topics. The third section includes chapters on Evaluation Studies, and the contributions in section four, Original Research, deal with new cybertherapy methods and approaches. The fifth section, Clinical Observations, includes case studies and research protocols with long-term potential, and the final sixth section presents papers describing future research work._x000D_ The book will be of interest to both health professionals and patients, and to anyone else interested in the continued improvement of healthcare systems.

Author : Siyuan Chen,Youngjun Cho,Kun Yu,Laura M. Ferrari,Francois Bremond
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889769483

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Recognizing the State of Emotion, Cognition and Action from Physiological and Behavioural Signals by Siyuan Chen,Youngjun Cho,Kun Yu,Laura M. Ferrari,Francois Bremond Pdf

Author : Chris Moulin,Moshe Naveh-Benjamin,Celine Souchay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015080878492

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Episodic Memory and Healthy Ageing by Chris Moulin,Moshe Naveh-Benjamin,Celine Souchay Pdf

This volume gathers together articles by leaders in the field exploring aging and episodic memory in healthy adults. These articles provide interesting and novel findings on different aspects of episodic memory, including patterns of decline and sparing, heterogeneity in older adults' memory performance, and cognitive and non-cognitive factors that potentially improve older adults' memory performance.

Author : Mohammad Amjad Kamal,Fatima A. Nasrallah
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889458271

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Neuroscientific Research for Management of Dementia by Mohammad Amjad Kamal,Fatima A. Nasrallah Pdf

The articles in this eBook are divided into three main chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on the role of specific proteins in the pathological processes of neurodegeneration, specifically Alzheimer's disease. Chapter 2 describes novel candidates and risk factors for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Chapter 3 targets various therapeutic interventions from pharmacological targets to cognitive function. This eBook thus provides an overall overview of the latest research in understanding mechanisms leading to the development of Alzheimer's disease, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions.

Author : Yuri Agrawal,Yuri Agrawal, John Carey
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889453009

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Age-Related Vestibular Loss: Current Understanding and Future Research Directions by Yuri Agrawal,Yuri Agrawal, John Carey Pdf

Author : Pedro Bekinschtein,Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889637874

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Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotrophin Function in the Nervous System by Pedro Bekinschtein,Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach Pdf

Author : Andrew Scholey
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832521342

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Insights in nutrition, psychology and brain health by Andrew Scholey Pdf

Author : Christos Frantzidis,Ana B. Vivas,Panagiotis D. Bamidis
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889661220

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Brain Networks for Studying Healthy and Pathological Aging Mechanisms and Intervention Efficacy by Christos Frantzidis,Ana B. Vivas,Panagiotis D. Bamidis Pdf

Previous studies showed that both healthy and pathological aging are associated with changes in brain structure and function of the mature human brain. The most prominent anatomical alteration are changes in prefrontal cortex morphology, volume loss and reduced white-matter integrity and hippocampal atrophy. Cognitive decline affects mainly the performance of episodic memory, speed of sensory information processing, working memory, inhibitory function and long-term memory. It has been also proposed that due to the aforementioned changes the aging brain engages in compensatory brain mechanism such as a broader activation of cortical regions (mainly frontal) rather than specialized activation. Evidence suggests that similar changes occur with pathological aging but to a greater extent. In this case information flow is disrupted due to neurodegeneration, functional activation of posterior (occipito-temporal) regions is decreased and as a consequence the brain fails to process sensorial input in the ventral pathway and cognitive deficits appear. In the last years, functional alterations associated with aging have been studied using the mathematical notion of graph theory that offers an integrative approach since it examines different properties of the brain network: 1) Organization level 2) amount of local information processing, 3) information flow 4) cortical community structure and 5) identification of functional / anatomical hubs. So, graph theory offers an attractive way to model brain networks organization and to quantify their pathological deviations. Previous studies have already employed this mathematical notion and demonstrated that age-related neurodegeneration is often accompanied by loss of optimal network organization either due to diminished local information processing or due to progressive isolation of distant brain regions. They have also found that changes in network properties may be present even in the preclinical phase, which could be taken as a biological marker of disease.