Smart Co-housing for People With Disabilities: A Preliminary Assessment of Caregivers’ Interaction With the DOMHO System by Davide Bacchin, Patrik Pluchino, Patrik Pluchino, Adriana Zoe Grippaldi, Daniela Mapelli, Daniela Mapelli, Anna Spagnolli, Anna Spagnolli, Andrea Zanella, Andrea Zanella, Luciano Gamberini, Luciano Gamberini

“…Millions of people with motor and cognitive disabilities face hardships in daily life due to the limited accessibility and inclusiveness of living spaces which limit their autonomy and independence. …”
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Mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors for treatment in tuberous sclerosis by Won Seop Kim

“…The neurological manifestations of TSC are particularly challenging and include infantile spasms, intractable epilepsy, cognitive disabilities, and autism. The TSC1- and TSC2-encoded proteins modulate cell function via the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling cascade, and are key factors in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation. …”
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Narrative, Objects, and the Construction of the Self by Lynne C Howarth

“…Building on research undertaken to explore how objects can be used as memory cues to evoke a memory of a person, place, event, or artefact in an individual’s personal narrative, this paper makes a case for mobilizing object memoir to empower the voices of the cognitively disabled. It argues for respecting the individual storyteller, not for the person he or she once was or may become in the future, but as someone with a unique identity and an inherent value as she or he is in the present. …”
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Inhabiting uncertainties: reflections on disability and care practices in the fight assisted housing by Helena Moura Fietz

“…With an ethnographic work carried out in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, together with mothers of adults with cognitive disabilities who organized themselves as a movement to fight for the cause of assisted living, I propose, in this work, a reflection on disability and care from your practices and speeches. …”
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MicroRNAs as Biomarkers for Predicting Complications following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Wang-Xia Wang, Joe E. Springer, Kevin W. Hatton

“…Approximately 30% of aSAH patients die during initial hospitalization and those who survive often carry poor prognosis with one in five having permanent physical and/or cognitive disabilities. The poor outcome of aSAH can be the result of the initial catastrophic event or due to the many acute or delayed neurological complications, such as cerebral ischemia, hydrocephalus, and re-bleeding. …”
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Anesthetic care during posterior spinal fusion in a patient with Prader-Willi syndrome. by N. Rusin, J. D. Tobias

“…Other important clinical manifestations include short stature, developmental delay, sleep disturbances including ob- structive sleep apnea, cognitive disabilities, seizures, be- havioral problems, and hypothalamic dysfunction. …”
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Ras GTPase-activating proteins control neuronal circuit development in barrel cortex layer 4 by Madhura S. Rao, Madhura S. Rao, Hiromi Mizuno, Hiromi Mizuno, Takuji Iwasato, Takuji Iwasato, Hidenobu Mizuno, Hidenobu Mizuno

“…These results demonstrate the essential roles of RasGAPs in circuit formation in the cerebral cortex and imply that developmental changes in dendrites and synapses in RasGAP KD neurons may be related to cognitive disabilities in RasGAP-deficient individuals, such as patients with neurofibromatosis type 1.…”
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FISH and Chimps: Insights into Frequency and Distribution of Sperm Aneuploidy in Chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes</i>) by Charlotte Guyot, Marlène Gandula, Wendy Noordermeer, Céline François-Brazier, Rosemary Moigno, Julien Bessonnat, Sophie Brouillet, Magali Dhellemmes, Marie Bidart, Christophe Arnoult, Véronique Satre, Charles Coutton, Guillaume Martinez

“…Numerical chromosomal aberrations in sperm are considered to be a major factor in infertility, early pregnancy loss and syndromes with developmental and cognitive disabilities in mammals, including primates. Despite numerous studies in human and farm animals, the incidence and importance of sperm aneuploidies in non-human primate remains mostly undetermined. …”
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Virtual Reality and Spatial Augmented Reality for Social Inclusion: The “Includiamoci” Project by Valerio De Luca, Carola Gatto, Silvia Liaci, Laura Corchia, Sofia Chiarello, Federica Faggiano, Giada Sumerano, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

“…Specifically, the experimentation involved ten young people between the ages of 28 and 50, with cognitive disabilities, who participated in Extended Reality workshops and Art Therapy workshops. …”
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Astrocytes produce CNTF during the remyelination phase of viral-induced spinal cord demyelination to stimulate FGF-2 production by Phillip J Albrecht, Joshua C Murtie, Jennifer K Ness, Jeffrey M Redwine, Jonathan R Enterline, Regina C Armstrong, Steven W Levison

“…Multiple sclerosis is characterized by multiple lesions with selective loss of myelin and oligodendrocytes, leading to deficits of sensation and movement, as well as cognitive disabilities. Consequently, a major research endeavor is to identify strategies to enhance oligodendrocyte regeneration and remyelination. …”
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Neuroprotective effects of gallic acid in a rat model of traumatic brain injury: behavioral, electrophysiological and molecular studies by Mohammad Ali Mirshekar, Alireza Sarkaki, Yaghoob Farbood, Mohammad Kazem Gharib Naseri, Mohammad Badavi, Mohamad Taghi Mansouri, Abbas Haghparast

“…Objective(s): Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the main causes of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Clinically, it is essential to limit the development of cognitive impairment after TBI.  …”
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An Adapted Model for Transition to Adult Care in Young Adults with Prader–Willi Syndrome by Maria Pedersen, Charlotte Höybye

“…The typical characteristics, including hyperphagia, muscular hypotonia, abnormal body composition, hormonal deficiencies, cognitive disabilities, and behavioral problems, appear or worsen in young adults, and the development of comorbidities increases. …”
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Current Therapies for Neonatal Hypoxic–Ischaemic and Infection-Sensitised Hypoxic–Ischaemic Brain Damage by Konstantina Tetorou, Claudia Sisa, Arzo Iqbal, Kim Dhillon, Mariya Hristova

“…Neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic brain damage is a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and cognitive disabilities. The majority of neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic cases arise as a result of impaired cerebral perfusion to the foetus attributed to uterine, placental, or umbilical cord compromise prior to or during delivery. …”
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How Does Psychosocial Behavior Contribute to Cognitive Health in Old Age? by Robert S. Wilson, David A. Bennett

“…With the aging of the U.S. population, the number of cognitively disabled persons is expected to substantially increase in coming decades, underscoring the urgent need for effective interventions. …”
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Horrendous-Difference Disabilities, Resurrected Saints, and the Beatific Vision: A Theodicy by Scott M. Williams

“…By rejecting this time-bias, I show how it is possible, given post-mortem life, for persons with profound cognitive disabilities to participate in horrendous evils and how these might be defeated by God.…”
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Research evidence for mathematics education for students with visual impairment: A systematic review by Oliv G. Klingenberg, Anne H. Holkesvik, Liv Berit Augestad

“…The authors conclude that it is to be expected that students with VI but without cognitive disabilities will follow their grade level in mathematics. …”
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Inhibition of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (Alk) as Therapeutic Target to Improve Brain Function in Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (Nf1) by Joseph B. Weiss, Jacob Raber

“…No effective treatments for the behavioral and cognitive disabilities of Nf1 exist. Inhibition of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (Alk), a kinase which is negatively regulated by neurofibromin, allows for testing the hypothesis that this inhibition may be therapeutically beneficial in Nf1. …”
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Executive Functions in Patients with Cannabis Use Disorder, Recovered and Normal Individuals by Mohammad Mehdi Hasanshahi, shirin pouladi

“…For this purpose, in a causal-comparative study, 50 patients who used cannabis who referred to Shiraz psychiatric centers in the first six months of 2019, they did not have psychiatric, neurological, cognitive disabilities and dependence on non-opioids and received a definitive diagnosis of cannabis use disorder by a psychiatrist, 50 recovered patients with at least six months of no-use period and 50 normal individuals with no history of substance use were selected by available sampling method and were evaluated by the Wisconsin card sorting test and the Wechsler memory scale. …”
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Depressive symptoms increase the risk of falls in elderly Chinese by LIU Yan-li, ZHAO Rui-xue, PAN Yan, MA Ya-jun, ZHAO Tun, JIANG Xiao-yan, LI Shu-juan

“…Compared with the normal group, the depressed group had a higher proportion of women, farmers, less education, unmarried, non-smokers, non-drinkers and cognitively disabled people. After adjusting for confounders, depression was associated with an increased risk of falls at baseline and 3 years later in older adults (P＜ 0.05). …”
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The Case for Democratic Patients: Epistemic Democracy Goes Green by Andrés Cruz

“…Then I present some candidates for being democratic patients, which include young children, severely cognitively disabled humans, non-existent future humans, sentient animals and even non-sentient life forms. …”
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