Sentences with phrase «better cognitive test»

Intake of flavonoid - rich wine, tea, and chocolate by elderly men and women is associated with better cognitive test performance.

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Standard cognitive testing — variously called mental status exams, cognitive testing, or neuropsychological testing — would also show how well Trump is functioning.

Before and after the ten weeks, all received brain scans and completed a cognitive exam, as well as a test designed to assess decision making and risk tolerance (for example, whether they were more likely to choose a smaller reward now or a larger reward later).

He or she takes the Watson - Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, a popular and well - validated cognitive - ability test, and the Devine Inventory, which measures the applicant's traits and tendencies against those of existing Capital H consultants.

Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.

In some studies, however, older people who were given tryptophan supplements performed better on cognitive tests than they had before.

When the twins were given cognitive tests after sleep deprivation, those with the gene variant did better, making 40 % fewer errors.

Older subjects with greater intakes of fruits and vegetables, and the corresponding nutrients vitamin C and folate, have been shown to perform better on cognitive tests (Ortega et al., 1997).

Grandmothers who watched their grandchildren one day a week did better on cognitive tests than those who cared for grandchildren more often or not at all.

In our study, we found that habitual chocolate users performed better in all cognitive tests and had significantly reduced risk for poor test performance in most tests, whereas the mean intake of chocolate among users was as little as < 8 g / d.

In one study, researchers found that supplementing with this vitamin for a year helped men perform significantly better in general cognitive tests compared to those who received a placebo.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

It looked at how fathers interacted with their babies at three months of age and found that, more than 20 months later, children with the most engaged and interactive fathers performed better in cognitive tests.

Studies show that people who get enough sleep are happier, eat healthier, score better on cognitive tests and are healthier overall.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

This study used age - appropriate cognitive tests that measure developmental skills, such as the ability to focus, as well as tests that measure comprehension and verbal ability which are strong indicators of IQ.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

The cognitive impairments and short - term memory problems suffered by the likes of ex-Carlton midfielder Greg «Diesel» Williams and Test - level forward Ian Roberts are well - documented — both have featured prominently on national television — while, more worryingly, Pearce found that their amateur counterparts are liable to exactly the same symptoms minus the corresponding level of medical care and financial security.

The study, appearing in the journal Child Development, indicates that infants receiving formula supplemented with DHA performed better on a cognitive test than infants who were given formula without it.

Trump performed «exceedingly well» on a surprise cognitive screening test administered last week, his doctor said, as the White House continued to bat back questions about the president's mental fitness for office.

Jackson said that while he «had no intention» of giving Trump a cognitive exam, the president specifically asked him to do one — and he performed «exceedingly well» on the test.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

Researchers have developed a new cognitive test that can better determine whether memory impairments are due to very mild Alzheimer's disease or the normal aging process.

Tests showed that these two individuals appeared to have better than expected cognitive function, although the other four volunteers did not.

Computerized cognitive training includes games that test memory, attention, and problem - solving skills, plus good old arithmetic and linguistic ability.

When IQ, or «general intelligence», is tested in people, individuals tend to perform comparably across different types of cognitive tasks — those who do well in one type of task, tend to do well in others.

In June, researchers reported that office workers scored higher on tests of cognitive function when the room was better ventilated, but many studies have found that background noise impairs cognitive performance.

After a month, the group tested the mice's cognitive abilities, such as how well they could navigate a maze or recognise other individuals.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

The best are enticing worlds of multi-dimensional complexity that test your cognitive agility by forcing you to make open - ended decisions on the fly.

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

But the critics are not convinced the tests are a good index of the extent to which cognitive decline affects people in everyday life.

Others, however, question whether a greater reliance on video games is in students» best interests, indicating there is little proof that skillful game play translates into better test scores or broader cognitive development.

The new blood test will initially be used to identify those people with mild cognitive impairment who are likely to get Alzheimer's disease and so might be good candidates for clinical trials to find drugs that halt disease progression.

The mice performed about 50 per cent better on two standard tests of cognitive function.

The second, published in 2015, found that participants over 60 who practiced brain games and received diet and exercise counseling scored significantly better two years later on cognitive tests compared with those who received routine care.

While heavy drinkers showed less impairment than light drinkers on a rote fine motor test over time, they did not perform better on a test involving more short - term memory, motor speed, and more complex cognitive processing.

We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cognitive ToM (experiments 4 and 5) compared with reading nonfiction (experiments 1), popular fiction (experiments 2 to 5), or nothing at all (experiments 2 and 5).

A biomarker that could accurately identify those at greatest risk for cognitive decline could help clinicians better evaluate and treat patients, while also accelerating the testing of drugs to treat the disease.

Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

While cognitive and motivational deficits were previously thought to be distinct domains of the illness, a better understanding of how the lack of motivation influences cognitive performance might mean it is the lack of motivation, not cognition on its own, that is causing people to perform poorly on tests.

By 12 weeks after their operations, people were already performing better on cognitive tests, «and that continued out to 3 to 4 years,» he says.

Dr. Trumble found something startling when he looked into the Tsimane data: Many of those with a copy of the gene seemed to perform better on the cognitive tests.

These profiles are examined with respect to how well they «fit» various disorders; test results are compared with large normative databases derived from similar individuals without cognitive disorders.

The pattern of test results allows a neuropsychologist to determine an individual's cognitive strengths as well as weaknesses.

The researchers found that people who carry a single copy of the KL - VS variant of the KLOTHO gene perform better on a wide variety of cognitive tests.

I've written about the use of neuropsychological tests for the differential diagnosis of AD, MCI, normal cognitive aging, and other neurodegenerative diseases, as well as for the prediction of cognitive decline and conversion from MCI to dementia.

It's subjective because others may not have observed any difficulty and you may score very well on cognitive tests designed to screen for dementia; however, you feel that there is a decline.