Sentences with phrase «average cognitive level»

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If your average blood glucose levels climb high enough, you'll be diagnosed as diabetic — and that's bad news for your cognitive health.

An exhaustive study of children with blood lead levels averaging more than 17 mcg / dL, published in 2013 in NeuroToxicology, concluded: «It is unclear whether lead exposure or early childhood confounders were driving these associations [between lead and long - term cognitive impacts].»

A study of patients with early Parkinson's disease found that groups with lower levels of vitamin B12 faced on average a more rapid acceleration of both motor and cognitive symptoms, which slowed in some cases after taking a daily multivitamin.

Correlation between average levels of soluble (a, b) and insoluble (c, d) Aβ42 and Aβ40 and the magnitude of cognitive impairments in transgenic animals, during the temporal progression of the AD - like amyloid pathology.

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?»

This is not your average latte, it is a high - performance drink that has a massive impact on your energy levels and cognitive function.

A more direct measure of a country's human capital is the performance of students on tests in math and science, something that might be called the average level of «cognitive skills» among those entering a country's work force.

Instead, its level of cognitive skills is only about average among the developed countries.

We therefore took measures of average educational attainment and average cognitive skill levels for as many countries as possible and examined their relationship to the average annual growth rate in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 1960 through 2000.

Increasing the average number of years of schooling attained by the labor force boosts the economy only when increased levels of school attainment also boost cognitive skills.

We used performance on 12 of these standardized tests as rough measures of the average level of cognitive skill in a given country.

By following these two steps, we were able to aggregate all available scores for each country into measures of average cognitive skill levels for each country.

With observational, video, and log data, we examine not only the content focus of instructional tasks but also the number of tasks per lesson, the average time per task, the specific kinds and levels of cognitive demands elicited by each task, and the inter-relatedness of instructional tasks.

To add to the erratic «gaze - path,» the study found that recruiters had high levels of cognitive - load (mental activity), which means it was harder for a recruiter to make a decision based on the average self - generated resume.

Nevertheless, the more recent meta - analyses revealed that children with divorced parents continued to have lower average levels of cognitive, social, and emotional well - being, even in a decade in which divorce had become common and widely accepted.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.