Sentences with phrase «as cognitive problems»

The unfortunate outcome of the focus on the research of these individuals is that policymakers and practitioners are being given further reason to view achievement gaps as the cognitive problems of individuals rather than the result of failures in the structures of our schools and societal policies.

About 1 in 3 adult Americans, or 72 million people in this country, are obese, and all face higher risks of heart problems, cancer and diabetes, as well as cognitive problems.

«So, impairment of the wiring of nerve cells in the cerebellum may contribute to movement disorders as well as cognitive problems including autism spectrum disorders.»

Lack of sleep in children has also been associated with health problems ranging from obesity to mood swings, as well as cognitive problems that can have an impact on a child's ability to concentrate, pay attention, and learn in school.

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But older people who develop Alzheimer's disease often first enter a stage known as mild cognitive impairment, which involves more serious problems with memory, language, thinking, and judgment.

For example, yes there is a body of literature that correlates excessive crying or «colic» in infants to problems such as ADHD and other cognitive problems later on.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

So anything that provides opportunities to practice different thinking skills, such as imitation, cause and effect, problem solving, and symbolic thinking will promote cognitive development.

As a result, researchers estimate that a subset of pregnant and lactating women have some degree of outright iodine deficiency, which can put their children at risk of developmental and cognitive problems.

And yet the problem with trying to put numbers on non-cognitive qualities is that we don't have measures for grit or self - control that are as reliable as the standardized tests are for cognitive skills.

This baby watches the paper as it falls, a 9 - month cognitive (learning, thinking, problem - solving) milestone.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

As children get older chronologically, they increasingly are able to use cognitive problem solving strategies to cope with negative stress.

Breastfeeding has many benefits that include protecting the baby against inflammatory diseases of the gut, lungs or ears, and longer term health problems such as diabetes and obesity, improved cognitive outcomes, and protecting the mother against breast cancer.

Even the most well - mannered newborns wake up 2 - 3 times in the night to eat and this continued lack of sleep can lead to short term memory loss as well as other cognitive problems.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

The good news is that with early intervention, special education, and tutoring, the risk of cognitive and academic problems can be reduced, as can the severity of a learning disability.

She has experience in providing cognitive behavioral treatments to children, teenagers and young adults struggling with those disorders, as well as behavioral problems and post-traumatic stress disorder.

In addition, it is unknown how often infants born without recognizable abnormalities of ZIKV infection will later develop problems (e.g., cognitive impairment, hearing loss, ocular findings), as has been seen with other congenital infections, for example, rubella.»

Collectively known as seizures, these episodes can severely limit an individual's range of activities and lead to a number of serious physical and cognitive problems.

Around one sixth of people in the UK aged over 75 have vitamin B12 deficiency, which when severe can lead to significant problems in the nervous system including muscle weakness, problems with walking, tiredness, and pins and needles, as well as depression and problems with memory and other important everyday cognitive functions.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

Dr. Stamenova adds that a comprehensive neurological consult would be helpful to patients, since individual cognitive screening measures such as the Cerebral Performance Category Scale, Mini Mental Status Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, can not detect the memory problems faced by cardiac arrest scognitive screening measures such as the Cerebral Performance Category Scale, Mini Mental Status Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, can not detect the memory problems faced by cardiac arrest sCognitive Assessment, can not detect the memory problems faced by cardiac arrest survivors.

Roughly a third of older people live with heads full of amyloid — about as much as someone with Alzheimer's — even while showing no cognitive problems.

Half of all patients who survive a cardiac arrest experience problems with cognitive functions such as memory and attention.

Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.

According to Au, further research will focus on determining whether these brain structure findings translate into impact on cognitive skills, such as problem solving, memory and language.

Studies have shown impaired smell to be even stronger than memory problems as a predictor of cognitive decline in currently healthy adults.

«Regardless if cognitive impairments precede substance use or vice versa, poorer cognitive functioning negatively impacts daily life and may cause lack of insight into one's substance use as a source of problems, impeding treatment utilization or decreasing the likelihood of effective treatment,» said senior author Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professor of Epidemiology and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.

As an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problemAs an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problemas they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problems.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

If it does not function correctly, what is known as a circadian disruption or chronodisruption, has for years been linked to an increased incidence of cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, cognitive problems or cardiovascular diseases.

The computerized part of the treatment was administered to pairs of adults with autism to help improve their neurocognitive abilities, such as attention and cognitive flexibility — which are important precursors to higher - level skills involved in problem - solving, self - regulation and social communication.

General intelligence is usually defined as the ability to do well on multiple cognitive tasks, from math skills to problem solving.

Mobility problems and cognitive impairments may arise as the nerve cells become damaged.

Other measures such as cognitive (i.e. IQ) ability, early linguistic skills, measures of the environment such as socio - economic status, and whether there is a family member with reading problems or dyslexia are all common early factors used to assess risk of developing reading difficulties.

Nearly three - quarters of homeless adults with mental illness in Canada show evidence of cognitive deficits, such as difficulties with problem solving, learning and memory, new research has found.

Other potential contributing factors may include cognitive changes, such as a lessened ability to discern a person's trustworthiness, and psychosocial problems, including loneliness or depression.

All of the study subjects had damage to the prefrontal cortex, a brain region behind the forehead that is important to cognitive tasks such as planning, problem - solving, self - restraint and complex thought.

Han and Lachs believe it's important to understand AAFV as a condition in order to protect older adults who exhibit signs of it, distinct from behavior brought on by cognitive impairment or problems with financial judgement that preceded older age.

«As a parent, you're now going to be solving slightly different adaptive problems, slightly different cognitive problems than you did before you had children,» he explains.

Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

He compared brain scans, as well as fluid from the brain and spine, from three groups: people without Alzheimer's disease, people with mild cognitive impairment or memory problems who may have Alzheimer's disease, and people with full - blown Alzheimer's disease.

Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.

Some studies reported an increased risk of damage to their behavioural, social, emotional and cognitive development, as well as mental disorders or physical problems such as low birthweight and premature delivery.

Teaching children skills such as how to cope with bullying at school, poor performance or problems with their parents, for example, in the framework of general cognitive preventative treatment and resilience training in school, may help children to better deal with emotional turmoil and challenging situations during adolescence.