Cognitive Functions in Adults With Central Nervous System and Non-Central Nervous System Cancers

2017 ◽  
pp. 560-586
Author(s):  
Denise D. Correa ◽  
James C. Root
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Central Nervous System Cancers

Sex Differences in Cognition

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-66
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hampson
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Sex Steroids ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Human Central Nervous System ◽  
The Brain

Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids were first discovered in laboratory animals, but these concepts extend to hormonal actions in the human central nervous system. This chapter begins with a brief overview of how sex steroids act in the brain and how the organizational-activational hypothesis originated in the field of endocrinology. It then reviews common methods used to study these effects in humans. Interestingly, certain cognitive functions appear to be subject to modification by sex steroids, and these endocrine influences may help explain the sex differences often seen in these functions. The chapter considers spatial cognition as a representative example because the spatial family of functions has received the most study by researchers interested in the biological roots of sex differences in cognition. The chapter reviews evidence that supports an influence of both androgens and estrogens on spatial functions, and concludes with a glimpse of where the field is headed.

Bone-brain crosstalk and potential associated diseases

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Rousseaud ◽  
Stephanie Moriceau ◽  
Mariana Ramos-Brossier ◽  
Franck Oury
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Brain Development ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Skeletal Homeostasis ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Brain

AbstractReciprocal relationships between organs are essential to maintain whole body homeostasis. An exciting interplay between two apparently unrelated organs, the bone and the brain, has emerged recently. Indeed, it is now well established that the brain is a powerful regulator of skeletal homeostasis via a complex network of numerous players and pathways. In turn, bone via a bone-derived molecule, osteocalcin, appears as an important factor influencing the central nervous system by regulating brain development and several cognitive functions. In this paper we will discuss this complex and intimate relationship, as well as several pathologic conditions that may reinforce their potential interdependence.

Chemical exposures and central nervous system cancers: A case-control study among workers at two nuclear facilities

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvind V. Carpenter ◽  
W. Dana Flanders ◽  
Edward L. Frome ◽  
William G. Tankersley ◽  
Shirley A. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Chemical Exposures ◽  
Central Nervous System Cancers ◽  
Control Study

Central Nervous System Cancers

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-131
Author(s):  
Sameer K. Nath ◽  
Daniel M. Trifiletti ◽  
Nicholas G. Zaorsky ◽  
Chad G. Rusthoven
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Central Nervous System Cancers

scholarly journals Diagnostics and Neuropsychological Correction of Children with Neurosis-Like Enuresis and Encopresis

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
D. Bereskin
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Functional Indices

The experience of a work with a group of children with enuresis (six patients) and encopresis (one patient) both of residual-organic origin is analyzed in this article. Work included psychological diagnostic techniques and psychological correction. Psychological diagnostic evaluation was directed to the measurements of different characteristics of sensorimotor reactions, memory, attention and cognitive functions. Functional characteristics of the central nervous system in children with enuresis and encopresis were approximated to those recorded in their healthy peers, while the cognitive functions in present group of children were lower. Psychological correction has included neuropsychological methods, which were aimed at the development of: visual-motor coordination, spatio-temporal organization relations and logic constructions understanding. Based on children's and parent's self-reports and based on medical records also it can be assumed that proposed psychological correction can be effective in enuresis and encopresis in children with similar characteristics, which can be observed. The significance of the functional indices evaluation of the central nervous system by measuring various characteristics of sensorimotor reactions substantiate by results obtained.

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