Is it not because we have a clear sense of how being blind can impair a range of capabilities that we consider important, such as the capability to engage fully in the political life of the community, to engage with artistic endeavors, to keep on top of major cultural events, and so on?
This grouping is underpinned by evidence that anterior thalamic lesions impair a range of tasks thought to rely on distal spatial cues (Sutherland & Rodriguez, 1989; Aggleton et al., 1995; Byatt & Dalrymple-Alford, 1996; Warburton & Aggleton, 1999; Wilton et al., 2001; van Groen et al., 2002; Loukavenko et al., 2007).
Persisting hemianopia frequently complicates lesions of the posterior cerebral hemispheres, leaving patients impaired on a range of key activities of daily living.
Morris complains that if a liberal interpretation is applied, individuals who are only mildly impaired on a range of functions might still be considered to be functionally independent, and therefore are classified with MCI.
Compared to participants with a higher mental health status, the participants with the lowest mental health status (first quartile, table 1) were impaired in a range of variables; for example, symptoms of depression and anxiety, cardiac disease severity, comorbidity, socioeconomic resources and health behaviour.
Antagonism of NMDA receptors as well as other experimental manipulations that reduce aspects of glutamatergic neurotransmission, such as antagonism at AMPA or mGlu5 receptors, are known to consistently impair function across a range of cognitive domains.
To determine whether impaired performance in a range of vision, proprioception, neuropsychological, balance, and mobility tests and pain and fatigue are associated with falls in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS).
38 Numerous studies have reported that increasing age correlates with impaired performance across a range of cognitive and motor domains.
Despite their relative youth, prisoners experience impaired general health on a range of measures (Butler et al. 2007), and the prevalence of blood-borne viruses, particularly HIV and hepatitis C, is typically orders of magnitude higher than in the community (Butler et al. 2011; Dolan et al. 2007; Macalino et al. 2004; Weinbaum et al. 2005).
In humans, impaired MMR may cause a range of cancers, and the documented association to hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (or Lynch syndrome) has been studied intensively (Lynch & Lynch, 1985).
None of these studies observed impaired cognitive flexibility in a range of 1 week to 1 year after treatment, whether performance before treatment was compared to that after treatment, 30– 32 or postoperative means were compared to published means of healthy controls.
