Longitudinal associations between post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth among older adults 11 years after a disaster by Hiroyuki Hikichi, Kanako Taku, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawchi

“…Conclusion PTG and PTS were differentially associated with functional and cognitive disabilities. Thus, PTG might not simply be a cognitive bias among survivors with severe PTS. …”
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TRPV1 mediates astrocyte activation and interleukin-1β release induced by hypoxic ischemia (HI) by Xing-Liang Yang, Xin Wang, Lin Shao, Guang-Tong Jiang, Jia-Wei Min, Xi-Yu Mei, Xiao-Hua He, Wan-Hong Liu, Wen-Xian Huang, Bi-Wen Peng

“…Children surviving from HIE often have severe long-term sequela including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and cognitive disabilities. The severity of HIE in infants is tightly associated with increased IL-1β expression and astrocyte activation which was regulated by transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1), a non-selective cation channel in the TRP family. …”
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Proton therapy versus conventional radiotherapy for the treatment of cavernous sinus benign meningioma, a randomized controlled phase III study protocol (COG-PROTON-01) by Paul Lesueur, Benedicte Clarisse, Justine Lequesne, Idlir Licaj, Loic Feuvret, Dinu Stefan, Damien Ricard, Georges Noel, Jacques Balosso, Marie Lange, Aurelie Capel, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Marie Castera, Berenice Legrand, Nicolas Goliot, Camille Hedou, Jean Michel Grellard, Samuel Valable

“…To be considered as positive, asumming that 47% of patients will not develop long-term cognitive disabilities deficits after XRT radiotherapy,, thus at least 70% of the patients treated with PRT should not develop functional impairment. …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery reduces the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a nationwide population... by Pao-Hui Tseng, Wan-Ting Huang, Jen-Hung Wang, Bor-Ren Huang, Hsin-Yi Huang, Sheng-Tzung Tsai

“…Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt implantation is a treatment used to improve the motor and cognitive disabilities of these patients; however, its effect on the risk of developing dementing disorders remains unclear. …”
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Environmental enrichment improves declined cognition induced by prenatal inflammatory exposure in aged CD-1 mice: Role of NGPF2 and PSD-95 by Ming-Zhu Ni, Yue-Ming Zhang, Yun Li, Qi-Tao Wu, Zhe-Zhe Zhang, Jing Chen, Bao-Ling Luo, Xue-Wei Li, Gui-Hai Chen

“…EE exposure could partially restore the accelerated decline in age-related cognitive function and in Psd-95 expression, especially in aged mice.DiscussionOverall, the aggravated cognitive disabilities in aged mice may be related to the alterations in Ngpf2 and Psd-95 expression and in systemic state of inflammation due to prenatal inflammatory exposure, and long-term EE exposure may ameliorate this cognitive impairment by upregulating Psd-95 expression.…”
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Neurorehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Emotional Dysfunctions by Hung, Yuwen, Yarmak, Pavel

“…Patients with MS, a heterogeneous central nervous system disease causing focal brain lesions and diffuse demyelination, suffer from pronounced physical and cognitive disabilities (3). Though retaining their intellectual abilities, MS patients exhibit various cognitive deficits involving both verbal and non-verbal memory, attention and speed of processing, as well as executive functioning. …”
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Can the clinical sign “head-turning sign” and simple questions in “Neucop-Q” predict amyloid β pathology? by Yugaku Daté, Shogyoku Bun, Keisuke Takahata, Masahito Kubota, Yuki Momota, Yu Iwabuchi, Toshiki Tezuka, Hajime Tabuchi, Morinobu Seki, Yasuharu Yamamoto, Ryo Shikimoto, Yu Mimura, Takayuki Hoshino, Shin Kurose, Sho Shimohama, Natsumi Suzuki, Ayaka Morimoto, Azusa Oosumi, Yuka Hoshino, Masahiro Jinzaki, Masaru Mimura, Daisuke Ito

“…All participants underwent Neucop-Q [three questions: Consciousness/self-awareness of cognitive disabilities (C) normal/impaired (nor/imp), Pleasure/pastime (P) nor/imp, and News/knowledge on current topics (N) nor/imp] and amyloid/tau PET. …”
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Relación entre niveles de actividad física y grados de discapacidad en personas adultas (Relationship between levels of physical activity and degrees of disability in adults) by Floralinda García Puello, Yaneth Herazo Beltrán, Karina Piñeres Feria, José Arteaga Petro, Andrea Lizcano Sánchez, Daysi Quintero Contreras, Guillermo Sir Ahumada

“…The practice of weekly physical activity obtained an average of 84 ± 94.2 minutes and significant differences were found in the minutes of weekly physical activity according to sex, age and type of disability, being higher in men (89, 5 ± 92.8), in the range of 18 to 25 years (112.6 ± 105.3) and in people with cognitive disabilities (125.1 ± 122.5). It was observed that the higher the degree of general disability and in each of the domains, the number of weekly days of physical activity decreased (p <0.05). …”
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