Sentences with phrase «ms on cognitive performance»

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They prefer to work in an environment that is free of distractions - even background music can have a negative impact on introverts and their cognitive performance.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

From ceiling height to lighting, there's more research than ever before on how our environment impacts our cognitive performance.

What's your take on the prospect of using brain implants to increase the cognitive performance of perfectly healthy people: exciting or creepy?

The latest science has already shown that it's possible to reverse cognitive decline in the middle - aged brain, and it's possible to rewire your brain as an adult through practice and «deliberate performance,» and learn new skills on the fly.

Moreover, a maximum beneficial effect on cognitive performance was gained at a mean intake of chocolate of ∼ 10 g / d.

In fact it was the subject of two sessions dedicated to exploring the evidence for the effects of foods and food components on mental performance and how this type of evidence can be gathered and evaluated to substantiate an EFSA approved claim on cognitive function.

A bigger hippocampus is associated with better performance on spatial reasoning and other cognitive tasks.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

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.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

He is now working on incorporating new technologies that will allow players to use their bodies as they play, while the game tracks their heart rate as well as cognitive performance.

These effects endured not only throughout the animals» lives but were carried on to the next generation and along the same gender lines: The offspring of dual - parented pups turned in superior performances on tests of cognitive ability and social skills than mice raised by single parents.

It will be important to follow this study up to examine these cognitive problems further and in particular to determine how they impact on clinical symptoms and school performance.»

However, brain injury was not linked to performance on other cognitive tests, including decision - making and organization.

Practicing hatha yoga three times a week for eight weeks improved sedentary older adults» performance on cognitive tasks that are relevant to everyday life, researchers report.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

While late - term gestation was associated with an increase in the rate of abnormal conditions at birth and with worse physical outcomes during childhood, it was also associated with better performance on all three measures of school - based cognitive functioning measures during childhood,» the study concludes.

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.

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

«If an individual had the Val / Val combination, then their performance on a battery of cognitive tests (conducted long after the injury occurred) was remarkably lower than that of individuals who had the Val / Met or Met / Met combination.»

Although randomized controlled trials investigating the acute effect of cocoa flavanols are sparse, most of them point towards a beneficial effect on cognitive performance.

One question their study did not address was whether individuals improve their cognitive performance or typing performance with practice on a treadmill desk over time.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalCognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animalcognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

«These preliminary results are promising in that higher - order cognitive training that focuses on «big picture» thinking improves cognitive performance in ways that matter to everyday life success,» said Dr. Cook.

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.

Wright's lab is now relying on a larger group of volunteers to examine the impact of sleep inertia on physical performance as well as other cognitive functions.

Also unknown is the association between brain signal variability and cognitive performance on various tasks such as memory, reasoning, speed, vocabulary, and semantic knowledge.

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

Dr. Au's research interests are focused on aging and dementia, and include relating cardiovascular risk factors, brain MRI measures, and neuropathology to cognitive performance.

During his time as an undergraduate student, he was a member of two cognitive neuroscience laboratories, where he worked on research studies examining how structural differences in the brain correlate with performance on cognitive tests.

This indicates that BICAMS may be useful for predicting performance on everyday activities, as well as for assessing cognitive abilities.

Performance on the BICAMS was worse among the participants with MS,» noted Dr. Goverover, «and poor performance on BICAMS correlated with poor performance of AR tasks, which require more complex cognitPerformance on the BICAMS was worse among the participants with MS,» noted Dr. Goverover, «and poor performance on BICAMS correlated with poor performance of AR tasks, which require more complex cognitperformance on BICAMS correlated with poor performance of AR tasks, which require more complex cognitperformance of AR tasks, which require more complex cognitive skills.

History of these syndromes was also associated with poor performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), which may be caused by the need for more time to process the visual stimuli, thus limiting the time available for the cognitive task of linking the numerals.»

The goal is to see whether a behavioral intervention that is based on providing performance feedback can effectively reduce levels of cognitive fatigue, a finding that would have implications for individuals with other types of neurological conditions who are affected by disabling fatigue.

«Specifically, the results will provide missing evidence on the brain areas involved in cognitive fatigue,» she noted, «as well as how their functioning is related to cognitive fatigue during task performance.

Among recent findings are the benefits of cognitive reserve and aerobic exercise; correlation between cognitive performance and outdoor temperatures; efficacy of short - term cognitive rehabilitation using modified story technique; and the correlation between memory improvement and cerebral activation on fMRI.

Kessler Foundation MS study documents negative effect of warmer weather on cognitive performance

Dr. Pope's research on the adverse effects of anabolic - androgenic steroids (AAS) and other performance - enhancing drugs addresses psychiatric effects of AAS use and ASS withdrawal, the cardiac toxicity of AAS (which is emerging as a serious public health problem), and cognitive deficits in AAS users.

Among discoveries are the benefits of cognitive reserve and aerobic exercise; correlation between cognitive performance and outdoor temperatures; efficacy of short - term cognitive rehabilitation using modified story technique; and the correlation between memory improvement and cerebral activation on fMRI.

When you are chronically sleep - deprived, you are hurting your metabolic health, cardiovascular health, cognitive power and memory, athletic performance, and the list goes on... but most importantly for this article, you will have a really, really hard time (as if it isn't hard enough already) building your ideal body.

Study subjects in a room scented with rosemary were found to have enhanced levels of 1,8 - cineole, an organic compound the researchers had previously linked with cognitive performance, and they performed better on word puzzles and memory tests than subjects in an unscented room.

(At the time, doctors were diagnosing people based only on their symptoms and performance on cognitive tests.)

Do you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?»

At the same time, I can honestly say I'm probably more stressed and sleep deprived now as a mom of six than I was in college and over the last few years I have researched and evaluated several natural types of nootropics for their effect on cognitive performance (without the negative side effects of smart drugs).

When I learned from my friend Dave Asprey that his mycotoxin - free coffee, Bulletproof, was being studied by researchers at Stanford for its effect on cognitive performance, I immediately ordered twenty pounds.

A significant correlation between performance on the cognitive test and BHB levels were observed, with those presenting with the highest BHB levels showing the most improvement.