cognitive function

This CKS, NICE document relating to Differential diagnosis entitled Dementia; What else could it be? raises several alternative diagnoses but no mention of ME/CFS. Differential diagnosis | Diagnosis | Dementia | CKS | NICE Particularly as we get older, any cognitive issues, (classic for ME...

Changes in Cerebrovascular Reactivity within Functional Networks in Older Adults with Long COVID Jessica Pommy, Alexander Cohen, Amarpreet Mahil, Laura Glass-Umfleet, Sara Jane Swanson, Malgorzata Franczak, Shawn Obarski, Kelly Ristow, Yang Wang [Line breaks added] Abstract Cognitive...

Abstract Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous negative impact on the psychosomatic status of the general population, and especially of more vulnerable populations, such as older people. The present study aimed to assess changes in psychosomatic status before and after the COVID-19...

I have set up this thread specifically to look at the way the questions are worded and whether they adequately cover the specific problems of fatiguability and PEM that limit whether an activity can be repeated and whether we avoid some activities in order to be able to do others, or in order to...

This arose on another thread and I thought worth starting a new thread: Are there changes we notice to cognitive function that indicate we are cognitively fatiguing and may be crashing or crashed? Can we develop ways of tracking them easily to help with pacing? This thread is for sharing...

Abstract The beneficial effects of physical activity on brain ageing are well recognised, with exerkines, factors that are secreted into the circulation in response to exercise, emerging as likely mediators of this response. However, the source and identity of these exerkines remain unclear...

Highlights • Adolescents with CFS report cognitive difficulties. • Adolescents with CFS report more cognitive difficulties than those with CF. • There were no impairments in objective measures of cognitive function. Abstract Objective Cognitive difficulties are among the most disruptive and...

Cognitive symptoms are usually categorized as psychological or psychiatric or if the cause is clearly neurological, as neuropsychiatric. For example, it's rarely disputed that most forms of dementia are neurological diseases. Yet the symptoms of dementia are classified as (neuro-)psychiatric I...

Conclusion General cognition remains preserved in most patients, only a small group of them shows a significant mild cognitive impairment. Maintained attention is clearly deficient, showing a marked fatigability after the Toulouse-Piéron test. The effort was perceived as very hard by both...

Highlights • Immune molecules associate with cognition in an ethnically diverse population. • They add information about cognition beyond traditional risk factors like age and vascular risk. • Chemokines CCL11 and CXCL9, the neurotrophic factor HGF, and serpin E1 most consistently associated...

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-020-05118-z

Research on rodents. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/variants-in-water-channel-gene-tied-to-more-restful-sleep-67529 Paper here