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anaklio

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Breast cancer and cognitive psychology
« on: June 15, 2009, 10:37:58 AM »
The impact of physiological disease on mental health is often neglected. Thus a new paper by Quesnel et al. (2009) is much welcome. These authors investigated cognitive functioning in breast cancer patients. The authors concluded that chemotherapy has a specific negative effect on verbal fluency, that breast cancer treatment in general negatively affects verbal memory, but that other cognitive functions are well preserved. Hopefully, our treatments for mental conditions will improve as our treatments for physical conditions do.

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Re: Breast cancer and cognitive psychology
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2009, 07:20:15 PM »
That sounds very interesting. What's the title of the paper?
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Re: Breast cancer and cognitive psychology
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 03:27:27 AM »
Reference: Quesnel et al. (2009)
Title: Cognitive impairments associated with breast cancer treatments: results from a longitudinal study.
Journal: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Date: July, 2009
Volume: 116
Issue: 1
Pages: 113-123.
Summary: These results suggest that chemotherapy has a specific negative effect on verbal fluency, that breast cancer treatment in general negatively affects verbal memory, but that other cognitive functions are well preserved.

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Re: Breast cancer and cognitive psychology
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 07:35:03 AM »
Hmm, does breast cancer treatment cause hormonal influences?

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Re: Breast cancer and cognitive psychology
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2011, 04:34:45 AM »
Anaklio’s information it sounds interesting about breast cancer. Nowadays, many breast cancer cases that many people suffered from that disease especially woman. Maybe because women has many estrogen than men that breast cancer cause from estrogen.

 

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