Sentences with phrase «between cognitive health»

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The podcast also incorporates a lot of science, with bits on cognitive bias, reading emotions, meditation and the relationship between kindness and health.

«While we can't make a direct link between higher caffeine consumption and lower incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia, with further study, we can better quantify its relationship with cognitive health outcomes.

Nutraceuticals will be developed through collaborations between food and pharmaceutical firms to address gut, cardiovascular and cognitive health, as well as weight management.

Alice Cadman, Director of Business Development and Marketing at Leatherhead Food Research discusses links between nutrition and cognitive health and performance, set against the context of rising cases of dementia and an ageing population.

The Health Belief Model guided the formative research and supported information delivery, while Social Cognitive Theory was predominately used in shaping the intervention and in facilitating understanding of the potential interaction between overestimation of new parents capacity to cope and underestimation of potential problems.

The authors concluded that extended breastfeeding is not associated with mental health risks but breastfeeding can result in closer parent - child relationships.17 Doubt of the relationship between breastfeeding and cognitive development led to a meta - analysis of 20 studies.

These findings are all consistent with the growing body of literature on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on neurological, cognitive, emotional and social development, as well as physical health.38 Although some studies have found no relation between physical punishment and negative outcomes, 35 and others have found the relation to be moderated by other factors, 12 no study has found physical punishment to have a long - term positive effect, and most studies have found negative effects.17

Another explanation could be that associations between breastfeeding and improved mother - child relations may, at least in part, reflect improvements in child cognitive functioning and / or physical health associated with breastfeeding.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young chiHealth and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young chihealth and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

The study has sparked interest in what its authors call «cognitive epidemiology,» the study of associations between mental ability tests and health outcomes.

Research results reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference provide clues about associations between cognitive status in older people and several behavior and lifestyle factors, including verbal skill, hearing, dental health, and hospitalization.

«Connection between integrity of brain's white matter, cognitive health.»

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.

Since the chemicals were discovered, researchers have found a relationship between PCB concentrations in blood and decreased cognitive and thyroid function, and elevated risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension among the Mohawk Nation, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

New research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows a significant relationship between motivational deficit and poor cognitive performance in people with schizophrenia.

Patients were then given memory and other cognitive tests to measure brain function, allowing scientists to establish strong correlations between exercise, brain health, and cognition.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

«Strikingly, further analysis showed a strong association between DNA methylation levels of these markers in monocytes and neuropsychological test function, measured using a composite score of multiple cognitive domains,» said Dr. Maunakea, Assistant Professor, Department of Native Hawaiian Health, JABSOM and co-senior author of the study.

stands for Rhythm Experience and Africana Culture Trial, and it's a collaborative study between the Penn Institute on Aging and the University of Pittsburgh's Brain Aging and Cognitive Health Lab.

Researchers have long been aware of an apparent link between blood - vessel health and Alzheimer's, but this study is «the first one that shows that treating mild cognitive impairment can have results,» says Anton Porsteinsson, MD, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, in New York.

Studies have suggested a correlation between people who work after midnight or in locations that have no natural light, like dark factories or mine shafts, and mental health issues, like depression, sleep disorders, and other cognitive problems.

doi: 10.1038 / 35036093; and Harris SE et al. «The association between telomere length, physical health, cognitive ageing, and mortality in non-demented older people.»

But getting back to its role in brain health, in 2007 researchers at the University of Wisconsin uncovered strong links between low levels of vitamin D in Alzheimer's patients and poor outcomes on cognitive tests.

I have also recently been excited by the link between resistance training and brain health, specifically its role in reversing age - related declines in mental functioning, specially declines in cognitive and executive functions.

It found a strong link between higher levels of chronic inflammation (as measured by blood levels of an inflammatory marker) and a decreased likelihood of «successful aging,» defined as optimal physical and cognitive health and the absence of chronic diseases.

«Our study is one of the largest to examine the relationship between physical activity and cognitive decline, and the results strongly support the notion that staying active maintains brain health.»

In conclusion, whether fasting actually causes improvements in metabolic health, cognitive performance, and cardiovascular outcomes over the long term; how much fasting is actually beneficial; and where the threshold of hormesis resides (i.e., a balance between long - term benefit from fasting compared with harm from insufficient caloric intake) remain open questions.

extensive evidence from animal studies points to the importance of the hippocampus in the association between diet and mental and cognitive health

The links between a private education and healthy living habits persevered even after socioeconomic background, childhood health and cognitive ability were taken into account.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Results of brain research, much of it sponsored by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), suggest that different parts of the brain working together are responsible for complex cognitive processes and that the communication between these brain centers is required for successful learning to occur.

The new WSCC model responds to the call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.

The underlying purpose of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is to establish greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between health and education across the school setting to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.

We will be leaders in the community, environmentally friendly, and cognitive of the relationship between human health and veterinary medicine.

The role of cognitive ability (intelligence) in explaining the association between socioeconomic position and health: evidence from the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.

Objective: To examine the associations between childhood socioeconomic and family circumstances, health and behavioural and cognitive development, and health and mental well - being outcomes in adulthood; exploring whether associations are different for cohorts born in 1958 and 1970, or for men and women.

Despite the CDC's characterization of a «scientific gap» between social, emotional, and cognitive impairment and the adoption of health - risk behaviors, there is empirical evidence for a link between the two.

There is increasing research showing that mindfulness - based courses, particularly mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) 10, 11 and mindfulness - based cognitive therapy (MBCT) 12 are effective interventions for a broad range of health problems.13 — 15 Mindfulness interventions have been shown as effective for recurrent depression, reducing relapse rates and antidepressant usage12, 16 — 18 and for reducing anxiety.15, 19 Research also shows that perceived stress decreases following participation in a mindfulness intervention, with the decrease maintained at follow - up (between 1 and 3 months).20 — 23

The report provided a series of strategies and areas for future research including possible research on the impact of diversionary programs on Indigenous young people with a cognitive disability and / or mental health issue; the links between early disengagement with the education system and early contact with the juvenile justice system; the impact of Otitis Media on cognitive ability and early disengagement with the education system and early offending behaviour.

The moderating effect of relationship strengths on the relationship between family stress and psychological symptoms suggests that individuals» cognitive evaluation of their social resources influences their ability to cope with stress and their subsequent mental health.

Home Visiting and the Biology of Toxic Stress: Opportunities to Address Early Childhood Adversity Garner (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Offers a public health approach to building critical caregiver and community capacities to minimize the effects of childhood adversity with a focus on expanding collaboration between caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress and strengthen the social - emotional, language, and cognitive skills needed to develop healthy, adaptive coping skills.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

The widespread absence of attention to the mother - child relationship in the treatment of depression in women with young children is another striking example of the gap between science and practice that could be reduced by targeted pediatric advocacy.97 Extensive research has demonstrated the extent to which maternal depression compromises the contingent reciprocity between a mother and her young child that is essential for healthy cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional development.98 Despite that well - documented observation, the treatment of depression in women with young children is typically viewed as an adult mental health service and rarely includes an explicit focus on the mother - child relationship.

The overall aim of the research is to explore the impact of poor maternal mental health on children's pre-school emotional, cognitive and behavioural development and to distinguish between children exposed briefly or over a longer time period.

Our findings support a family systems risk model14 that explains children's cognitive, social and emotional development using information about five kinds of family risk or protective factors: (1) Each family member's level of adaptation, self - perceptions, mental health and psychological distress; (2) The quality of both mother - child and father - child relationships; (3) The quality of the relationship between the parents, including communication styles, conflict resolution, problem - solving styles and emotion regulation; (4) Patterns of both couple and parent - child relationships transmitted across the generations; and (5) The balance between life stressors and social supports outside the immediate family.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Cognitive ability is one important indicator of adoptees» development, both as an outcome measure itself and as a potential mediator between early adversities and ill - health.

Specifically, it aims to determine whether a range of cognitive factors (attitude, perceived behavioural control, health beliefs and enjoyment) mediate associations between the family environment and sports participation.