BACKGROUND: @entity308 are associated with serious dysfunction and @entity308 . @entity73 is a clear symptom observed in all @entity308 @entity1 . PVSAT is a measure of cognitive function that specifically assesses visual information processing speed and flexibility, as well as calculation ability. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) might constitute a useful procedure for assessing cognitive functions in @entity308 . METHOD: Twenty - eight @entity308 @entity1 , together with fourteen healthy control (HC) subjects participated in the study. All @entity1 performed the PVSAT and a set of clinical tasks assessing information processing speed, working memory and executive functions. RESULTS: Compared with the HCs, the @entity308 @entity1 were significantly impaired in their performance of the PVSAT. Significant impairment (compared with controls) was also evidenced by only one of the clinical tasks - the symbol coding task, which assesses information processing speed. CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrate the high sensitivity of the PVSAT to @entity73 . However, correlation analyses showed that the main factor explaining the @entity308 @entity1 @entity227 was @entity73 .

Evaluation of Visual Information Processing Speed in Depressed XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'patients', 'people'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitive impairment', 'cognitive slowing', 'Cognitive slowing'] @entity227 :: ('MESH:D014786', 'Disease') :: ['PVSAT impairment'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depressive disorder', 'depressive symptoms', 'depressed', 'Depression disorders']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['People']
