Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of
people worldwide. AD is characterized by a profound impairment of higher cognitive …

Objective: Despite the prevalence of socio-cognitive disturbances, and their important
diagnostic/therapeutic implications, the assessment of these disturbances remains scarce …

Background To date quantitative meta-analysis with large samples to investigate the effects
and potential moderators of physical activity (PA) on executive function (EF) in older adults …

To determine the relationship between sleep spindle characteristics (density, power and
frequency), executive functioning and cognitive decline in older adults, we studied a …

Objectives The few voxel-wise lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) studies aimed at identifying
the anatomy of executive function are limited by the absence of a model and by small …

Background Deficits of executive functioning (EF) are frequently found in neurological
disorders. The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is one of the most widespread and …

As a key domain of cognition, social cognition abilities are altered in a wide range of clinical
groups. Accordingly, many clinical tests and theories of social cognition have been …

The functional organization and related anatomy of executive functions are still largely
unknown and were examined in the present study using a verbal fluency task. The objective …

Executive functions are crucial for performance of everyday activities. In Multiple Sclerosis
(MS), executive dysfunctions can be apparent from the early onset of the disease …

Background Cognitive training shows promising effects for improving cognitive domains in
individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), including the crucial predictive factor of …