Impact of chronic diseases on executive control functions, and functional brain imaging in action

Impact of chronic diseases on executive control functions, and functional brain imaging in action

Years ago, we observed that individual differences in glucose metabolism predict performance in tasks assessing attentional control, even in non-diabetic seniors (Gagnon et al., 2010) and that coronary patients that underwent heart surgery show specific, but reversible cognitive deficits by an intervention (de Tournay-Jetté et al., 2012). We also showed that physical functioning predicts executive…