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    The Effects of Short Term Cognitive Training on Episodic Memory and Executive Functioning in Healthy Seniors As humans begin to get older, there is a strong association between age change and the decline of cognition. This a concern that many individuals have as they start to get older, especially with the media coverage that Alzheimer’s disease has been getting. There are many causes of this decline, and it often varies highly between individuals based on their lifestyle and physical activity

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    I. History of Poland After the Partitions of Poland (1772-1795), which had decreased the size of the country, giving most of the land to Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary. The First World War provided a practical chance for Poland to restore its independence. The powers, which had separated the country more than one hundred years earlier, were fighting on opposite sides. Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the Central Powers) fought Imperial Russia allied with France and Great Britain

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    slept from 10:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. During each session subjects performed a reaction time test, a selective attention task, and a constant attention task. In order to ensure there was no learning effects during the reaction test, barrage test, and Stroop test, the form and color were changed between sessions. Results show that the biggest effect was towards reaction time, which increased significantly from the reference night to SDB (p < 0.001) and SDE (p < 0.001). Also the results showed that reaction

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    “God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.” ~Jacques Deval. Seeing the animals, their hopeless voice, their bodies being pushed to limit until the end. Animal Rights are when people believe that animals should have the rights to live free from being hunted, medical research, and from being eaten. Animals need this right because many people mistreat animals. How do the animals´ right differ from what they need for a suitable life? A suitable

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    Further studies have identified a decline in verbal fluency and Stroop test performance after DBS surgery; however, these results were unassociated with psychiatric changes (Witt et al., 2008). Decline in verbal fluency has been attributed to surgical electrode implantation, not to DBS itself (Okun, 2012). Additional

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    Caffeine Experiment Essay

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    We will record the effects by conducting a stroop test and a reaction time test as well as a mood questionnaire that will survey their individual moods after drinking the caffeine. Results: Note: Data Above shows the averages based on the mood questionnaire completed by the students

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    CTT-1 Percentile: a percentile score in the first part of the Color Trail Test; CTT-2 Percentile: a percentile score in the second part of the Color Trail Test; CTT-1 NMNS: near-misses in number sequence in the first part of the Color Trail Test; CTT-2 NMNS: near-misses in number sequence) in the second part of the Color Trail Test; In the control group, the fMRI-LI laterality index was found to correlate significantly with CTT-1 (strong correlation with the percentile score) and with CTT-2

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    Marian And Shook Summary

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    control which language the brain focuses on. The attention and inhibition areas of the brain are activated to perform this process. With greater executive function, bilinguals perform better on conflict management tasks, such as those presented in Stroop Task. Marian and Shook (2012) described a stronger ability to recognize pitch and a longer onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s as effects of bilingualism. The authors

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    The following report will discuss a proper neuropsychological assessment in respect to the literature for the case of a 19-year-old man under investigation for possible shoplifting suspected to have low intellectual functions. The neuropsychologist has been asked to evaluate the subject´s intellectual abilities, however, it is important for the clinician to consider that this man has a long story of physical altercations with possible associated brain injuries. It is suggested that TBI (Traumatic

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    Factors That Are Damaging to the Child’s Brain The BBC News suggests that a child’s brain becomes fully developed during the early thirties. This means that parents and guardians should be aware of their actions and what impact they have on a child’s brain. Whether a child grows up in an institute, orphanage, or house, there is still a probability that their caretakers can cause brain damage. This is an important problem in our community as well as in our country due to the fact that many do not

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