Cognitive impairment is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and an
important source of patient disability and caregiver burden. The timing, profile and rate of …

In mammals, sexual hormones such as estrogens play an essential role in maintaining brain
homeostasis and function. Estrogen deficit in the brain induces many undesirable symptoms …

The correlates of cognitive sex differences are yet to be fully understood. Many biological
and psychosocial factors modulate these cognitive abilities leading to mixed results in the …

Objective Verbal fluency tests are sensitive to various disorders affecting the central nervous
system and are commonly included in neuropsychological evaluations. We aimed to …

Background Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept proposed to account for discrepancies
between the extent of brain pathology and clinical manifestations of that pathology. This …

Males and females are subject to differences in cognitive processing strategies, ie the way
males and females solve cognitive tasks. So far primarily reported for younger adults, this …

Background: Despite expectations of deterioration in memory function with age, some older
adults demonstrate superior memory performance and have been defined as SuperAgers …

Background Gait was proved to be strongly associated with global cognitive function and
multiple cognitive domains; however, previous research usually concentrated on individual …

Objective: The effects of normal cognitive aging on executive functions (EF), Verbal Episodic
Memory (VEM) and the contribution of age, sex, education, and APOΕ ε4 in a group of old …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and has a higher incidence
in women. The main component of the senile plaques characteristic of AD is amyloid-beta …