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This study examined the cognitive performance of older adults aged 60 and above using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test and DigiMoCA, a digital tool for cognitive screening administered by means of a smart speaker, to investigate whether...

Background: Interpretation of cognitive performance in older patients with depression is challenging considering the association between late-life depression and (early-stage) neurodegenerative disease. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is wid...

Background/Objectives: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a widely used cognitive screening tool designed to detect cognitive impairment. However, evidence indicates that the original cut-off score of 26 and the one-point correction for low...

The validity of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in migrants is questionable, as sociodemographic factors and the migration process may influence performance. Our aim was to evaluate possible predictors (age, education, sex, depression, and m...

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome that is characterized by widespread pain; fatigue; stiffness; reduced physical fitness; sleep disturbances; psychological symptoms, such as anxiety and depression; and deficits in cognitive functions, such as attention, exe...

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, pose a significant challenge to global health, and early detection tools are crucial for effective intervention. The adaptation of online screening forms and...

The current study aims to investigate the influence of socio-demographic factors on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test results in a Greek-speaking population consisting of a sample of healthy older adults, individuals with mild cognitive i...

Background: Mineral intake may protect against cognitive impairment (CI) and all-cause dementia, which affects a large number of adults worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between mineral intake and Montreal Cognitive...

Background: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is widely used to evaluate global cognitive function; however, its precision in measurement in heterogeneous populations—especially among patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD)—re...

The Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA), a widely accepted screening tool for identifying patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), includes a language fluency test of verbal functioning; its scores are based on the number of unique correct wor...

Introduction: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder, with cognitive impairment being one of its most significant comorbidities. While the majority of individuals with epilepsy maintain regular intellectual abilities, they are more likely to exp...

(1) Background: There is a need for a brief assessment of cognitive function, both in patient care and scientific research, for which the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a psychometrically reliable and valid tool. However, fine-grained normat...

Objective: Cognitive screening instruments (CSIs) are essential for everyday practice. The Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment (Qmci) screen, a short instrument designed to identify mild cognitive impairment, was recently translated into Greek (Qmci-Gr)....

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a severe condition with high mortality and extensive long-term morbidity. Although research has focused mainly on physical signs and disability for decades, in recent years, it has been increasingly recognized that co...

Cognitive impairment and malnutrition are prevalent in patients on hemodialysis (HD), and they negatively affect the outcomes of HD patients. Evidence suggests that cognitive impairment and malnutrition may be associated, but clinical studies to asse...

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a tauopathic atypical parkinsonian syndrome. Recent studies suggest that inflammation may play a role in PSP pathogenesis, highlighting markers like the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphoc...

Objective: Primary care clinicians in Asia employed the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to aid dementia diagnosis post-stroke. Recent studies questioned their clinical utility in stroke settings for relyi...

Background: Demographic factors such as education, sex, and age can significantly influence cognitive test performance, yet their impact on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Rey Complex Figure (CF) test has not been fully characterized in...

Aging coincides with a decline in map learning ability, but it is unclear to what extent different aspects of the mental representation are susceptible. The present study aimed to investigate knowledge about landmarks, their positions and distances (...

Data linking heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive status remains controversial and scarce, particularly in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) patients. Whether the association between HRV and cognitive performance exists in CSVD patients is u...

Objectives: An increasing number of older adults, including those with mild cognitive impairment, are undergoing cardiac surgery. Despite strong recommendations for preoperative cognitive screening and peri-operative monitoring, routine implementatio...

Background: Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that is proving to be effective in encouraging physical activity (PA) and improving health. Although regular PA has many advantages, physical inactivity continues to be a significant global h...

Lexical retrieval difficulty is a common daily complaint among older adults. Recent evidence suggests that older adults name motor-related nouns (e.g., knife) more accurately than non-motor nouns (e.g., steak). However, it remains unclear whether thi...

Background: Depression and cognitive impairment are recognized complications of COVID-19. This study aimed to assess cognitive performance in clinically diagnosed post-COVID depression (PCD, n = 25) patients using neuropsychological testing. Methods:...

Objectives: This study investigated fractional anisotropy (FA) differences within key white matter tracts across patient groups stratified by Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scores, aiming to evaluate FA’s potential as a biomarker for cogn...

Background: Intra-individual (IIV) of reaction time (RT), as the short-term fluctuations of RT-based performance, has been reported to be susceptible to cognitive ageing. The current study aimed to examine IIV of RT and its relationships with cogniti...

Neuroinflammation is one of the main mechanisms contributing to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), although its key role and the immune cells involved have not yet been identified. Blood monocytes appear to play a role in the clearan...

Despite cognitive symptoms being very important in schizophrenia, not every schizophrenic patient has a significant cognitive deficit. The molecular mechanisms underlying the different degrees of cognitive functioning in schizophrenic patients are no...

Background and Objectives: Migraines are one of the most common types of primary headaches in neurology. Many studies to date have investigated cognitive impairment in migraineurs, but the results are inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate the...

The World Trade Center Environmental Health Center (WTC EHC), is a federally designated clinical center of excellence for surveillance and treatment of WTC disaster exposed community members (WTC Survivors). Cognitive impairment (CI) has been extensi...

Background/Objectives: Respiratory dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is frequently underrecognized, particularly when resting oxygen saturation is preserved. Dynamic stress testing, however, may reveal exercise-induced oxygen desaturation...

Background/Objectives: Cannabis use has a particularly high prevalence in individuals with psychotic disorders. Although cannabis use is generally associated with cognitive impairments in the general population, its impact on cognition in psychosis r...

Background and Aims: Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is one of the major complications after ischemic stroke. PSCI has been shown to be associated with low-grade systemic inflammation. As a novel inflammatory marker, the systemic immune-infla...

Background and Objectives: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed cancer care, but their impact on cognition is unclear. This study examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of cognitive impairment in patients receiving ICIs. Mate...

Background/Objectives: The adherence to a healthy lifestyle is important for supporting healthy cognitive function as aging progresses. This study aimed to assess the association between a healthy lifestyle, specifically diet quality, physical activi...

The KALRN gene (encoding kalirin) has been implicated in several neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. However, genetic evidence supporting this implication is limited and targeted epigenetic analyses are lacking. Here, we tested associat...

Oxidative stress is thought to contribute to the aetiology of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Ascorbate (vitamin C) is a potent antioxidant and is associated with neurological and cognitive function. In this study we assesse...

Background/Objectives: Dystonia, traditionally regarded as a purely motor disorder, is now increasingly recognized as involving clinically significant non-motor symptoms (NMSs) that can adversely affect patients’ health-related quality of life...

A domain-specific perspective to cognitive functioning in stroke patients may predict their cognitive recovery over time and target stroke rehabilitation intervention. However, data about domain-specific cognitive impairment after stroke are still sc...

Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection represents a significant public health concern and, consequently, the incidence of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) has grown over the years. The present study aims to assess HAND...

In memory, representations of spatial features are stored in different reference frames; features relative to our position are stored egocentrically and features relative to each other are stored allocentrically. Accessing these representations engag...

Background and Objectives: Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) has been defined as all problems in cognitive function that occur following a stroke. Studies published thus far on the prevalence of PSCI and post-stroke dementia (PSD) have shown co...

Background and Objectives: Cognitive impairment, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is a growing public health concern. Early detection and an understanding of structural changes are crucial for accurate dia...

CaMoO₄ nanocakes with uniform size and morphology were prepared on a large scale via a room temperature reverse-microemulsion method. The products were characterized in detail by X-ray powder diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy,...

Nanoflower-like MoS₂ deposited on the surface of rectangular CaTiO₃(CTO) was designed and synthesized via a simple template-free strategy. Through SEM, TEM, and other characterization methods, the MoS₂ nanoflowers were confirmed to be well deposited...

Background: The objective was to explore the role of patient sex in cognitive recovery and to identify predictive factors for non-recovery in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Methods: All patients with AUD admitted to a residential addictions treatment ce...

We present a series of Sm³⁺/Tb³⁺ co-doped CaMoO₄ phosphors synthesized by an efficient method of microwave-assisted heating. The prepared CaMoO₄ samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence, and Commission Internationale de l&rs...

Exposures to fine particulate matter PM_2.5 are associated with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s (AD, PD) and TDP-43 pathology in young Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC) residents. High-resolution structural T1-weighted brain MRI and/or Montreal Cogn...

Local distortions in perovskites can be induced by cation displacements and/or by the tilting and rotating of cation–anion octahedra. Both phenomena have been subject to intense investigations over many years. However, there are still controver...

Optimizing the monitoring of network traffic features to detect abnormal traffic is critical. We propose a two-stage monitoring and classification (MOCA) system requiring fewer features to detect and classify malicious network attacks. The first stag...