Sentences with phrase «behavioral studies show»

No matter where the «brains» of plants might be located — if they exist at all, that is, since the idea remains controversial — plenty of behavioral studies show they are far more brainy than we tend to assume.

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A 2016 study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity showed that hourly five - minute walking breaks boosted energy levels, sharpened focus, and «improved mood throughout the day and reduced feelings of fatigue in the late afternoon.»

A recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that one in five children under age 18 has a learning, emotional, behavioral or developmental problem that can be traced to the dissolution of the two - parent family.

Studies have shown that children with good omega - 3 intake do better in school and have fewer behavioral problems.

Studies show that spanking and other physical discipline techniques can create ongoing behavioral and emotional problems

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid shows parents how to recreate landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, social and behavioral development — using their own bundles of joy as the research subjects.

Sleep experts reviewed 52 studies of various behavioral treatments that address bedtime problems and night wakings among infants and toddlers; 49 of the studies showed positive results.

Other studies have shown about half of the behavioral, achievement, and emotional problems seen in boys from divorced families could be identified as early as four year prior to the divorce.

And if you could somehow design a study to show whether behavioral approaches are better than approaches related to attachment, one drug addict would not be enough to discount either approach.

According to an article in Psychology Today by clinical psychologist and sleep disorder specialist Michael J Breus, a 2011 study showed that bed - sharing does not negatively affect cognitive or behavioral development in young children.

«Previous studies have shown reductions in children's social, emotional and behavioral problems,» said Ron Prinz, Ph.D., at the University of South Carolina, the study's lead investigator.

Current studies on humans show no harmful effects of supplementing infant formula with DHA and ARA and some studies even show some benefits to a child's visual function and / or cognitive and behavioral development.

Studies show that children who develop responsibility, cooperation and courage have higher self - esteem, fewer behavioral problems and more courage to face life's challenges.

One of the key findings of the study concluded that «children who were aware of the circumstances of their birth were more vulnerable to the effects of maternal distress,» meaning there was not necessarily a link between children knowing or not knowing and how well - adjusted they were, but if they did know the circumstances of their birth, and their mothers showed signs of distress, the children were more likely to show signs of behavioral problems.

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral studies with older babies (12) showed that human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).

The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine described one young person's horror on learning that «she» had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby.60 Many other similar cases have been documented.61, 62 Infant circumcision has a reported death rate of one in 500,000.63, 64 · Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child's behavioral development.

«This is the largest randomized trial of any behavioral intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder, and it shows that parent training works,» notes Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Marcus and Emory School of Medicine, who directed the study.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

Their paper, which was published in the scientific journal BMC Ecology, is the first behavioral study worldwide showing the interaction of two invasive species in the context of the decline of native species.

The study adds to a growing body of research that has previously shown that certain psychological and behavioral traits are associated with particular facial width - to - height ratios (known as FWHR).

But a study in the July issue of Behavioral Ecology shows that the male brain isn't totally clueless.

In all, the study included the data of more than 23,000 people to show that approximately 12 percent of a person's variation in delay discounting can be attributed to genetics — not a single gene, but numerous genetic variants that also influence several other psychiatric and behavioral traits.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

The study builds on previous research, which has shown that being born prematurely — before 37 weeks — is a leading cause of learning and behavioral difficulties in childhood.

«A lot of studies show personality in other invertebrates,» says Isaac Planas - Sitjà, a behavioral ecologist at the Free University of Brussels and the lead author of the study.

Studies have shown cognitive - behavioral therapy and relaxation training to be effective as well.

A similar discovery in fruit flies, reported in an earlier independent study, which shows that a particular sex pheromone enhances female sexual behaviors and male aggression via separate neural circuits between the sexes, suggests that a sexually distinct circuit may be a universal strategy for converting male pheromone information into appropriate behavioral output.

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, López - Caneda and colleagues set out to see if the resting brains of binge - drinking college students showed any differences compared with those of their non-bingeing counterparts.

Behavioral studies have shown that some fish learn to avoid adverse stimuli, says Patrick Bateson, a behavioral biologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., but he says this study «strengthens the evidence» that fish really can Behavioral studies have shown that some fish learn to avoid adverse stimuli, says Patrick Bateson, a behavioral biologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., but he says this study «strengthens the evidence» that fish really can behavioral biologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., but he says this study «strengthens the evidence» that fish really can feel pain.

«My study shows, among other things, that the children of mothers who drank small quantities of alcohol — 90 units or more — during their pregnancies show significantly better emotional and behavioral outcomes at age seven compared to children of mothers who did not drink at all.

Prior research that studied the effect of free behavioral counseling offered by phone has shown improvement in smoking cessation rates when combined with pharmaceutical interventions.

«The fact that we measured blood and CSF at the same time shows for the first time that there's a tight relationship between oxytocin levels in those two compartments [blood and CSF] and anxiety,» said the study's lead author, Dean Carson, PhD, postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

«Behavioral economics study shows boost in fuel and carbon efficiency of airline captains.»

Laura Corbit, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Sydney and an author on the study, says that the study shows that sweet and fat are powerful rewards that «have a fairly broad effect on decision making.»

Madary and Metzinger refer to recent studies showing that immersion in VR can cause behavioral changes that last after subjects leave the virtual environment.

A 2014 behavioral study of expectant fathers showed that midpregnancy ultrasound imaging was a «magic moment» in the dads» emerging connection with their baby.

Meanwhile, studies have shown promise from non-medication approaches to changing dementia patients» behavior and reducing triggers for behavioral issues in their environment and daily life.

Male fence lizards of the species Sceloporus undulatus have bright blue «badges» outlined in black on both sides of their throats and abdomens, and previous studies have shown that testosterone drives the production of these badges, which are highly visible during the animal's courtship rituals and other behavioral displays.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

Numerous clinical studies show that these medications can decrease or eliminate behavioral disorders in 70 to 90 percent of patients.

Studies show that adding behavioral therapy greatly enhances improvements.

A study of the impact and research topics of neuroscience papers from 2006 - 2015 has shown that the number of papers and highly - productive core neuroscience journals has grown, while psychology and behavioral sciences have become more popular research areas.

The new study shows deleting Rhes significantly reduces behavioral problems in animal models of the disease.

«These bees solved the problem more effectively,» and showed that they could «generalize the solution to new situations,» says Anne Leonard, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Nevada in Reno, who was not involved in the study.

Previous studies showed that reaching puberty early is especially stressful, and Caspi and Moffitt found that the girls who had the most trouble adjusting to early adolescence were those who had shown behavioral problems in early childhood.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

It supports previous studies that have shown increased levels of behavioral problems and / or disruptive disorders among young people with gender variance.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

Psychological stress and glucorticoids have been shown to increase FOXO3 in animal studies, 36, 37, 38 whereas low levels of FOXO3 in mice actually prevent the behavioral stress response in mice, serving an antidepressant effect.39 We believe our study is the first documentation that a stress reduction intervention can reduce FOXO3 expression.