Publications by authors named "Eva Maria Martin"
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- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition that causes cognitive decline greater than normal age-related changes but does not severely disrupt daily life, and it can be influenced by various factors including neuropsychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety.* -
- The NeuroNation MED Effectiveness Study is a multicenter randomized controlled trial in Germany and Luxembourg, evaluating a 12-week self-administered mobile cognitive training intervention ("NeuroNation MED") for adults with MCI, with a total of 286 participants planned.* -
- Outcomes of the study will focus on cognitive performance improvements and changes in neuropsychiatric symptoms, psychological well-being, and usability of the application, assessing both primary and secondary outcomes before and after the
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- COVID-19 survivors may experience chronic cognitive symptoms as part of post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC), leading researchers to explore cognitive slowing as a potential marker for these conditions.
- In a study involving 270 PCC patients in the UK and Germany, cognitive tests revealed that patients exhibited significant slowing in response times compared to both recovered COVID patients without PCC and uninfected individuals.
- The observed cognitive deficits were consistent across different clinics and were correlated with sustained attention challenges, while factors like fatigue and anxiety did not explain the severity of cognitive slowing.
Background: Fatigue is a frequent and one of the most debilitating symptoms in post-COVID syndrome (PCS). Recently, we proposed that fatigue is caused by hypoactivity of the brain's arousal network and reflected by a reduction of cognitive processing speed. However, it is unclear whether cognitive slowing is revealed by standard neuropsychological tests, represents a selective deficit, and how it develops over time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Knowledge on the nature of post-COVID neurological sequelae often manifesting as cognitive dysfunction and fatigue is still unsatisfactory.
Objectives: We assumed that cognitive dysfunction and fatigue in post-COVID syndrome are critically linked via hypoarousal of the brain. Thus, we assessed whether tonic alertness as a neurocognitive index of arousal is reduced in these patients and how this relates to the level of central nervous activation and subjective mental fatigue as further indices of arousal.
Rationale And Objectives: Total kidney volume is an important biomarker for the evaluation of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease progression. In this study, we present a novel approach for automated segmentation of polycystic kidneys from non-contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) images.
Materials And Methods: Non-contrast-enhanced CT images were acquired from 21 patients with a diagnosis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
According to the norm-based version of the multidimensional face space model (nMDFS, Valentine, 1991), any given face and its corresponding anti-face (which deviates from the norm in exactly opposite direction as the original face) should be equidistant to a hypothetical prototype face (norm), such that by definition face and anti-face should bear the same level of perceived typicality. However, it has been argued that familiarity affects perceived typicality and that representations of familiar faces are qualitatively different (e.g.
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