Sentences with phrase «behavioral studies suggest»

Taken together, the few available behavioral studies suggest that children with disruptive problems (ODD or CD) and higher levels of CU traits differ from children with disruptive problems but lower levels of CU, by showing less attentional orienting (i.e., engagement) to emotional faces.

Genetic and behavioral studies suggest that although they look similar, they are actually distinct species.

However, many studies supporting this logic use unrealistic doses (such as 100 mg THC), and behavioral studies suggest that only complicated tasks are impaired by marijuana, as a similar study with tasks of variable difficulty level showed that people are still able to perform simple tasks.

Not exact matches

Studies suggest that avatars yield the most positive effects when the level of visual realism is congruent with the level of behavioral realism [58].

Though you can not completely eliminate your teenager's chances for depression, consider whether your child participates in physical and extracurricular activities, maintains a positive social life and understands how to cope with stress, suggests John Curry, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention at Duke University in Durham.

While further research is needed, this study suggests that tackling the problem sooner (rather than later) may safeguard against major sleep disorders and major behavioral disorders.

Dr. James J. McKenna, Director of the M other - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, studied on sleep and arousal patterns of co-sleeping mothers and infant and suggested that when babies and mothers sleep together, their sleep cycle will create synchronicity to each other.

Many studies suggest that children raised in a two - parent family have a higher standard of living and fewer behavioral and emotional problems.

A study published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience suggests that fathers» brains respond differently to their daughters than to their sons.

However, available research (e.g., waitlist - controlled pilot studies) suggests that behavioral / cognitive - behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are effective for treating SM.

«A number of observational studies suggests a link between DHA levels during pregnancy and a baby's behavioral performance.»

«Our findings suggest that injuries, assaults, and combat exposures experienced by women during deployment may have an additive, negative effect on their post-deployment behavioral health,» said Dr. Rachel Sayko Adams, lead author of the Journal of Traumatic Stress study.

But, a new study suggests that a simple behavioral economics technique known as «active choice» may be able to help.

«This study suggests many reasons some children may be at extreme risk of severe physical abuse and murder, which points to different preventive actions,» said lead author Dr. Robert Hanlon, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine neuropsychologist.

That question turned out to be the basis of a new field, behavioral epigenetics, now so vibrant it has spawned dozens of studies and suggested profound new treatments to heal the brain.

«A significant increase in neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders in children exposed to HG in utero was demonstrated which suggests HG may be linked to life - long effects on the exposed fetus,» the study states.

Young notes that such studies suggest social media have great potential to nudge behavioral changes.

A study published yesterday in Current Biology suggests ocean acidification is driving a cascading set of behavioral and environmental changes that drains oceans» biodiversity.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

A new study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these chemicals can change reproductive behavior as well, and that these behavioral changes can be passed on from parents to offspring.

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.

A detailed statistical study of mass shootings in the USA suggests that training law enforcement officers to recognize the psychology and behavioral patterns of perpetrators could improve officers» ability to deal with an on - site shootout or suicide.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

Now, a behavioral study that directly compares the two apes suggests that the bonobos» more cordial nature enables them to cooperate more successfully than chimps in some situations.

Led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, this study is a follow - up to a recent JAMA viewpoint suggesting that there's little evidence that wearable devices alone can change behavior and improve health for those that need it most.

«These results suggest that for drugs to have an effect on a person, he or she needs to believe that the drug is present,» said Dr. Xiaosi Gu, assistant professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and the study's lead author.

«That suggested that the story was not as simple as everybody assumed and volatile pheromones were not responsible,» says behavioral ecologist Jane Hurst, one of the authors of the study.

Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.

«But our comparison of national data from the NHIS with data from the EHDIC study provides a more nuanced picture of the factors underlying these behavioral differences and suggests that the disparities found at the national level may be a function of social and environmental differences.

Behavioral and genetics studies requiring more animals could potentially be done in nontraditional research setting such as sanctuaries or zoos, suggested working group co-chair neurologist Daniel Geschwind of the University of California, Los Angeles.

«Our findings are counter intuitive and suggest that some anti-smoking strategies may actually go too far,» said William Shadel, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The new study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, suggests that PrEP's appeal to many men who have sex with men (MSM) in romantic relationships with HIV - negative partners is the perception that it can allow them to remain intimate with their partners while still having some protection from HIV.

Jeff Galak, a Carnegie Mellon behavioral scientist who worked on the study, suggests that we remember hardships as worse than they actually were so that when we face those experiences again, they will be less painful than we expect.

«Genes interact with parental care in producing childhood behavioral problems, study suggests.»

A new study by an MIT economist sheds more light on the quirks of people's actions in such cases and suggests that, in addition to immediate financial needs, persistent behavioral characteristics play a key role in even short - term pocketbook decisions.

Our findings suggest that frontal network modulation to improve executive and behavioral deficits should be further studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease,» said Rezai, the former director of Ohio State's Neurological Institute who is now leading the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University.

Children with obesity may be more impulsive than those with normal weight, but during family - based behavioral treatment (FBT), the more impulsive of children with obesity may lose more weight, a new study suggests.

The lab's findings in the study, «D - serine Deficiency Attenuates the Behavioral and Cellular Effects Induced by the Hallucinogenic 5 - HT2A Receptor Agonist DOI,» suggested that D - serine - dependent NMDAR activity is involved in mediating the cellular and behavioral effects of 5 - HT2AR aBehavioral and Cellular Effects Induced by the Hallucinogenic 5 - HT2A Receptor Agonist DOI,» suggested that D - serine - dependent NMDAR activity is involved in mediating the cellular and behavioral effects of 5 - HT2AR abehavioral effects of 5 - HT2AR activation.

Increased risk of cancer is the largest concern, but studies have suggested that PCBs can cause developmental and behavioral problems as well.

- April 3, 2012 Jerod Stapleton, PhD, behavioral scientist at CINJ and assistant professor of medicine at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, weighs in on a study suggesting that tanning beds may contribute to a rise in women under 40 being diagnosed with melanoma.

Plasticity studies suggest that behavioral relevance can change the cortical processing of trained or conditioned sensory stimuli.

Conclusions: Findings from this study suggest Sailfin Molly could be more resilient to high CO2 levels than other tested species, however more research is needed to fully assess behavioral tolerance.

The study also suggests that health insurance should cover services — such as infant - massage classes — that have been shown to strengthen the child - caregiver relationship, says Robin Gurwitch, PhD, a professor of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Now, a new study suggests that a simpler technique — known as behavioral activation (BA)-- may work just as well for some patients.

Our data here, combined with over a dozen physiological and behavioral human studies that begin to point to the prenatal period as a BPA window of vulnerability, suggest that pregnant mothers limit exposure to plastics and receipts.

In addition to goitrogens, crucifers also contain substances called nitriles that can release cyanide into tissues and result in general toxicity at high doses.15 A 2004 study conducted in Japan suggested that massive doses of nitriles, doses that are impossible to obtain from food, would be required in order to result in toxicity.16 This study used behavioral endpoints such as restlessness to judge toxicity.

Some studies suggest that they may be linked to cancer, heart issues, behavioral changes and a myriad of other health issues.

It is unknown whether higher physical exhaustion observed during sleep loss in our study will translate to lower physical activity levels and more positive energy balance in the social — behavioral environment, as suggested by other laboratory findings (37, 38).

Shellenbarger cites a study of 10,700 parents and teachers of first graders that suggests that when teachers are stressed, students have more behavioral and