DeVito and colleagues (2012) used fMRI to examine changes in neural activity related to the Stroop color word interference task, which engages cognitive control and executive attention functions, in patients with substance use disorders that included AUD.
The neuropsychological battery included a wide range of tests that assessed global cognitive function, attention, memory, and executive functions.
Before and after the intervention, assessments were conducted of physiological functioning (pulmonary function, exercise endurance), psychological well-being (depression, anxiety, quality of life), and cognitive functioning (attention, motor speed, mental efficiency, verbal processing).
When the children were 6 and 18 months old, their mothers provided data on gross and fine motor functioning, attention, cognitive function, language, and social-personal development via computer-assisted telephone interviews.
And then there are improvements in other measures of wellbeing – cognitive functioning, attention skills, creativity, life satisfaction, and so on.
At each of the two time points, a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests were used to evaluate three domains of cognitive functioning – attention and working memory skills, psychomotor efficiency and processing speed, and learning efficiency.
18 persons with HF (67.72; SD = 8.56 year) completed echocardiogram and a brief neuropsychological test battery assessing global cognitive function, attention/executive function, memory and motor function.
For cognitive domains (attention, executive functions, working memory, and declarative memory), the pattern was similar: at week 1, both groups did not differ significantly in any domain.
The tests were grouped into four cognitive domains (attention, executive functions, working memory, and verbal learning and memory) according to a priori considerations.
Then, the therapist has to perform the initial neuropsychological assessment, consisting of a set of validated tests used to evaluate cognitive functions (attention, memory or executive functions).
To analyze the effect of aging on sentence auditory comprehension and to study the relationship between this language skill and cognitive functions (attention, working memory, and executive functions).
