Sentence examples for executive impairment from inspiring English sources

This means that it is highly likely that damage caused by blows to the head accumulate towards an executive impairment in later life".

It is likely that in more complicated real world scenarios, this plasticity is insufficient and consequently, the executive impairment is no longer masked.

Comparisons between user groups showed very similar executive impairment prevalence for all the analyzed executive components.

Our results indicate that verb production deficits in AD seem to be driven more by semantic than by executive impairment.

We designed two hypotheses for this verb deficit: (1) executive impairment drives the deficit; (2) semantic impairment drives the deficit.

The clinical spectrum includes cognitive disorders (mainly memory and executive impairment, later aphasia and speech disorder) leading to frank dementia, behavioral symptoms (impulsivity, explosivity, addictive behavior), mood swings, headache and motor signs (parkinsonism, gait disorder, motor neuron disease).

Therefore, substantial evidence implicates a concurrent dysfunction in the mesocortical dopamine network in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease, with specific disruption of projections to insular cortex contributing to worsening executive impairments and PDD, possibly by impairing the ability to recruit other cognitive networks.

There are two propositions regarding the causes of these impairments: (1) executive impairments are the result of the compounding effects of deficits in lower order cognitive skills (e.g. processing speed, attention) or (2) EF impairments exist in their own right regardless of lower order skills.

The Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC) was designed as a novel instrument for clinicians to assess the main cognitive and executive impairments that are hypothesized to underpin the impact of obsessive-compulsive symptoms on functioning in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The majority of the studies have highlighted the presence of executive impairments in apathetic PD patients.

In fact, we were able to systematically reveal the correlates of executive impairments in early dementia.