Habitual prospective memory in preschool children.

Habitual prospective memory (PM) refers to situations in which individuals have to remember to perform a future task on a regular and frequent basis. Habitual PM tasks are ubiquitous and the ability to successfully complete these tasks (e.g.

Focality and prospective memory in preschool children.

We examined the influence of prospective memory (PM) cue focality in a sample of preschool children. Prior investigations in older populations indicated that focal targets were associated with enhanced PM performance, perhaps through more automatic retrieval processes. Importantly, this influential variable has not been thoroughly explored in younger samples.

Divide and Conquer.

We assessed the ability of preschool children to assign the most difficult tasks to a symbolic helper. First, children were taught that a toy "helper" could aid them in remembering the location of a hidden item. Children preferentially assigned the helper to the objectively most difficult locations to remember.

Elevated serum globulin gap as a highly reliable marker of elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases.

Objective: Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) are the two most commonly used markers of inflammation in clinical practice. Reducing the need for these tests could lead to considerable cost savings without sacrificing the quality of patient care.

Methods: The electronic medical records of patients with systemic rheumatic diseases seen between May 2015 and June 2017 in the rheumatology clinics at a single academic medical center were retrospectively reviewed.

Working memory in children assessed with serial chaining and Simon tasks.

In the serial chaining task, participants are required to produce a sequence of responses to stimuli in the correct order, and sometimes must determine the sequence at trial outset if stimuli are masked after the first response is made. Similarly, the Simon memory span task presents a participant with a sequence of colors, and the participant must recreate the sequence after the full series is shown. In efforts to directly link the comparative literature on sequential planning behavior and working memory span with the developmental literature, we presented preschool children with the serial chaining task using masked Arabic numerals (N = 44) and the Simon memory span task (N = 65).

Responding to home maintenance challenge scenarios: the role of selection, optimization, and compensation in aging-in-place.

This study examined potential issues faced by older adults in managing their homes and their proposed solutions for overcoming hypothetical difficulties. Forty-four diverse, independently living older adults (66-85) participated in structured group interviews in which they discussed potential solutions to manage difficulties presented in four scenarios: perceptual, mobility, physical, and cognitive difficulties. The proposed solutions were classified using the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) model.

Working memory and the strategic control of attention in older and younger adults.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of aging on the strategic control of attention and the extent to which this relationship is mediated by working memory capacity (WMC). This study also sought to investigate boundary conditions wherein age differences in selectivity may occur.

Method: Across 2 studies, the value-directed remembering task used by Castel and colleagues (Castel, A.

The effects of age and focality on delay-execute prospective memory.

In everyday prospective remembering, individuals must often delay the execution of a retrieved intention until they are in the appropriate setting. These so-called 'delay-execute' tasks are particularly troublesome for older adults, who consistently demonstrate impaired performance in this kind of laboratory task. To better understand this effect, we investigated delay-execute prospective memory performance in younger and older adults.

Headless compression screw fixation prevents symptomatic metalwork in arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis.

Background: Arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis (AAA) is a recognised salvage procedure for end-stage arthritis. Its reported disadvantages include a high rate of re-operation for symptomatic prominence of metalwork. We propose that the use of a headless screw would reduce this re-operation rate.

Challenges to Aging in Place: Understanding Home Maintenance Difficulties.

Age-related declines in capabilities may compromise older adults' ability to maintain their homes thus threatening successful aging in place. Structured interviews were conducted with forty-four independently living older adults (M(age) = 76.1, SD = 4.

A case of Charcot's feet in a patient with Parkinson's disease: a case report.

Introduction: Parkinson's Disease (PD), amongst its motor symptoms, can cause dystonia of the limbs and trunk. This can lead to subsequent deformities.

Case Presentation: We describe a case where Parkinson's Disease has gone on to cause bilateral Charcot feet with rocker-bottom deformity.

Implicit learning of predictive relationships in three-element visual sequences by young and old adults.

Knowledge of sequential relationships enables future events to be anticipated and processed efficiently. Research with the serial reaction time task (SRTT) has shown that sequence learning often occurs implicitly without effort or awareness. Here, the authors report 4 experiments that use a triplet-learning task (TLT) to investigate sequence learning in young and older adults.