Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and long-term effects of response inhibition training as a therapeutic approach in healthy adults.Methods: The PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang, and China Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP) were searched for studies. Data on the improvement of Cognitive function and its long-term effect were extracted by two authors independently. The pooled data were meta-analyzed using a random-effects model, and the quality of each eligible study was assessed by The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool.Results: Nine articles were included. 1 of the articles included 2 trials, so 10 eligible trials (response inhibition training group vs. control group) were identified. A total of 490 patients were included. Response inhibition training has beneficial effects on improving cognitive function in healthy adults compared to control treatment (SMD, −0.93; 95% CI, −1.56 to −0.30; Z = 2.88, P = 0.004), the subgroup analysis results showed that either GNG training alone (SMD, −2.27; 95% CI, −3.33 to −1.21; Z = 4.18, P < 0.0001) or the combination of both SST and GNG significantly improved cognitive function in healthy adults (SMD, −0.94; 95% CI, −1.33 to −0.56; Z = 4.80, P < 0.0001), whereas SST training alone did not have such an effect (SMD, −0.15; 95% CI, −0.76 to 0.47; Z = 0.47, P = 0.64). But its long-term effects are not significant (SMD, −0.29; 95% CI, −0.68 to 0.10; Z = 1.45, P = 0.15). The subgroup analysis results showed that neither GNG training alone (SMD, −0.25; 95% CI, −0.75 to 0.24; Z = 0.99, P = 0.32) nor SST training alone (SMD, 0.03; 95% CI, −0.42 to 0.48; Z = 0.14, P = 0.89) could improve the cognitive function of healthy adults in the long term. In contrast, the combination of both training (SMD, −0.95; 95% CI, −1.46 to −0.45; Z = 3.68, P = 0.0002) can have long-term effects on the improvement of cognitive function in healthy adults.Conclusion: The findings of our study indicate that response inhibition training can improve the cognitive function of healthy adults and that more RCTs need to be conducted to validate their usefulness in clinical cases.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, we considered the case of a child with developmental language disorder (DLD) who could not go to the hospital on time to receive timely rehabilitation treatment due to disrupted hospital operations. The application of cloud-based rehabilitation platforms has provided significant advantages and convenience for children with DLD in-home remote rehabilitation. Among them, the JingYun Rehab Cloud Platform is the most widely used in mainland China. It is an interactive telerehabilitation system developed by Weixin Huang that delivers personalized home rehabilitation for special education children. In this study, we used the JingYun Rehab Cloud Platform to investigate the extent to which cloud-based rehabilitation is effective for children with DLD in terms of language and cognitive outcomes. This was a prospective cohort study including all children who were evaluated and diagnosed with DLD through Sign-Significant Relations and were followed up at the rehabilitation clinic of our institute. We followed 162 children with DLD for 3 months, including 84 children with DLD who participated in remote cloud-based rehabilitation on the JingYun Rehab Cloud Platform and 78 children with DLD as the control group who underwent home-based rehabilitation. Language abilities of both groups were assessed using the Chinese version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised. Several measures of training performance (language, memory, and cognition tasks) were assessed before and after cloud-based rehabilitation in the remote cloud-based rehabilitation group. Children with DLD in the cloud-based rehabilitation group performed significantly better in language abilities, as assessed by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, than children with DLD in the control group. Furthermore, for children who participated in remote cloud-based rehabilitation, the frequency of training sessions was proportional to their performance on language, memory, and cognition tasks. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of cloud-based rehabilitation on the JingYun Rehab Cloud Platform in treating children with DLD.

Although there are a variety of risk factors and predictive models for stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS), the risk factors and predictive value for SAP in patients with AIS treated by endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of SAP in acute ischemic stroke patients treated with EVT and identify independent predictors of SAP. We enrolled patients with acute ischemic stroke who underwent endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) at the stroke center of Maoming People’s Hospital between January 2021 and December 2023. The patients were categorized into the SAP group and Non-SAP group. Univariate analysis was performed to examine the correlation between each potential risk factor and SAP. Multivariate logistic regression analysis and receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) were applied to identify independent predictors of SAP and evaluate their predictive value, respectively. A total of 233 participants were included in this study. Among them, 131 (56.22%) patients were identified with SAP. The univariate analysis showed significant differences in the following variables between groups: admission National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score (NIHSS) (P = 0.005), procedural time (P = 0.000), dysphagia (P = 0.004), white blood cell (WBC) (P = 0.044), neutrophils (P = 0.019), and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (P = 0.002). The multivariable logistic analysis identified the following independent predictors of SAP: admission NIHSS score [OR = 1.078, 95% CI = 1.020–1.140, P = 0.008], procedural time [OR = 1.023, 95% CI = 1.014–1.032, P = 0.000], NLR [OR = 1.152, 95% CI = 1.005–1.320, P = 0.042], and dysphagia [OR = 0.340, 95% CI = 0.151–0.767, P = 0.009]. Furthermore, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis demonstrated that procedural time had the best predictive performance for SAP in AIS patients undergoing EVT. Admission NIHSS score, procedural time, NLR, and dysphagia were associated with SAP in patients with AIS treated with EVT and can be an independent predictor for SAP.

As a part of the overall information-processing system of the brain, postural control is related to the cognitive processes of working memory. Previous studies have suggested that cognitive tasks and postural control processes can compete for resources in common brain areas, although there is an “inverted U” relationship between arousal level and behavioral control – the arousal level of individuals changes when performing cognitive tasks. However, the exact neural connections between the two are unclear. This may be related to the nature of cognitive tasks. Some studies believe that posture occupies not only spatial information processing resources but also visual non-spatial information processing resources. Other studies believe that posture control only occupies spatial information processing resources in the central system, but does not occupy non-spatial information processing resources. Previous studies used different cognitive task materials and reached different conclusions. In this study, we used the same visuospatial and non-spatial materials, the n-back visual working memory paradigm, the event-related potential technique to investigate the effects of visuospatial and non-spatial working memory tasks on adolescents’ postural control under different cognitive loads. The results of this study showed that in both visuospatial and non-spatial conditions, the N1 effect of the parieto-occipital lobe was larger during upright posture than in the sitting position (160–180 ms), the P300 effect of the central parieto-occipital region (280–460 ms) was induced by working memory in different postures, and the P300 wave amplitude was higher in the sitting position than in the upright position. We demonstrated that upright postural control enhances early selective attention but interferes with central memory encoding, thus confirming that postural control and visuospatial and non-spatial working memory share brain regions and compete with each other.