Apart from the principal cities of Vitsyebsk city, Orsha, Polatsk, and Navapolatsk, the towns are small and engaged in timber working and in processing farm produce.
Neuropsychological testing followed consensus panel guidelines and included tests emphasizing episodic memory, working memory and processing speed.
Full-scale IQ, verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed index scores were computed by combining age-scaled subtest scores.
However, higher fasting cortisol levels were associated with greater estimated cognitive decline in g and in tests of working memory and processing speed, independent of mood, education, metabolic variables, and cardiovascular disease (P < 0.05).
Depression, in turn, can negatively affect cognitive function by interfering with working memory, executive function, and processing speed.
Bingham adds: "Even though we are charging less because of the discounts, we are still working more efficiently and processing more work, so it's swings and roundabouts.
Table 5 presents statistically significant partial correlation coefficients (after adjusting for imaging site) between brain activation and neuropsychological domain scores (attention, working memory, VCA, and processing speed).
We thank Paqui Talavera and all the colleagues at IREC that participated in the field work, collecting and processing all the samples and making this research possible.
The functional areas of verbal and visual memory, working memory, processing speed, and executive function were assessed.
