There has been a renewal of interest in patients with depression on a broad range of Neuro Psychological tasks in the last decade.It has promoted a growing awareness that, like Schizophrenia, Mood disorders may be associated with a distinct pattern of cognitive impairment such impairments are seldom measured.This book focused about how to improve cognitive functions. The present study was conducted to see the efficacy of Cognitive Rehabilitation(CR) of Attention, Memory & Problem solving in depressive patients.Thirty diagnosed depressive patients(ICD-10 criteria)with their consent were...

Depression is a stage were patient is preoccupied with negative thoughts which affects his efficacy to work & reduces his capacity to focus on cognitive performance. Neuropsychological Deficits(ND) in Depression in LNNB-I describes about ND in depression and an important neuropsychological test battery Luria Nebrasaka Neuropsychological battery-I.The present study was to assess ND in depression and cross validity of 22-items screening test and 15-items screening test were interpreted. From this study it was concluded that depressive were suffering from severe neuro-cognitive deficits. Also...

Cognitive functions closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or cortical networks in the brain substrate layers of neurological matrix at the cellular molecular level.Schizophrenic also manifest a broad array of cognitive impairments, including impaired performance in attention, information processing, executive functions, memory and language capabilities. Attentional and verbal memory impairments are conceptualized as vulnerability markers, which may be useful in defining schizophrenia phenotype may be applicable to early detection,& provide a basis for creating...