Ehsan Matinfar; Imanollah Bigdeli; ALI Mashhadi
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The Symptoms of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have been considered an index of cognitive control deficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate whether enhancing cognitive control over emotional stimuli can decrease worry intrusions and severity of the GAD symptoms. Based on the results ...
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The Symptoms of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have been considered an index of cognitive control deficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate whether enhancing cognitive control over emotional stimuli can decrease worry intrusions and severity of the GAD symptoms. Based on the results of the structured clinical interview for the DSM-5 (SCID), 45 students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) who had GAD, were chosen to participate in this study. Then, they were assigned equally and randomly to the three conditions of intervention, control and active control groups. Subsequently, they completed the PSWQ, GAD-7, emotional stroop task, and Go/No Go task as pre-test. The intervention group received 16 sessions of the cognitive-affective control training using the emotional stroop with the trial-based feedback. Also, the active control group received the same amount of the training sessions of the emotional stroop with receiving no feedback, and finally, the control group was on a waiting list. After post-test assessments, the results of ANCOVA showed that the training sessions were effective for the stroop performance, reduction in worry intrusions, and GAD symptoms, while the training on the cognitive inhibition did not transfer to the behavioral inhibition. The findings revealed that not only cognitive control plays a major role in worry and GAD symptoms, but also cognitive control training might be a promising path to decrease the severity of anxiety disorders. Training with emotional stimuli can enhance performance, and using trial-based feedback can pave the way to get better clinical results.
Fereshteh Yaghooti; sogand ghasemzadeh; GholamAli Afrooz
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Objective: Studies have shown that Alzheimer's progression in people with Down syndrome is associated with a faster disorder in some of the functional functions. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of adults with Down syndrome with and without Alzheimer's disorder. Method: The present ...
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Objective: Studies have shown that Alzheimer's progression in people with Down syndrome is associated with a faster disorder in some of the functional functions. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of adults with Down syndrome with and without Alzheimer's disorder. Method: The present study is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all subjects with Down syndrome over 40 years of age and included 10 subjects or Down syndrome with Alzheimer's disorder and 10 subjects with Down syndrome without Alzheimer's disorder (a total of 20 people), which were selected by availability and then by instrument Wisconsin Cards and Stroop Test. MANOVA was used to compare the groups. Results: The results of the analysis of the data showed that among people with Down syndrome with Alzheimer's with people with Down syndrome without Alzheimer's There is a significant difference between Wisconsin and Stroup tests. Conclusion: The results showed that people with Down syndrome with Alzheimer's had a weaker performance than the other group. In fact, reducing the size of the cognitive reservoir in the frontal lobe leads to early impairment and then signs of impairment in the functional functions.
