Sentences with phrase «by cognitive changes»

In general, Chinese teachers used response - modulation most frequently, followed by cognitive changes in and after classroom teaching.

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Luke argues InteraXon's technology can prevent accidents from happening by identifying changes in cognitive performance early on and alerting drivers when they lose focus.

I've lost all 40 lbs in a year (mostly within the first 4 months) since changing my lifestyle and consume fruit per day (mainly berries) as ordered by my doc to help with cognitive issues due to a stroke I had following my surgery.

The imaging changes also strongly correlated with the number of head hits (self - reported by the athletes in a diary), the symptoms experienced, and independent cognitive tests, said lead author Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at URMC.

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

This is done by making changes to justify their stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and / or contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

The cognitive style you need in times of change, explained by best - selling author Leonard Mlodinow

A cognitive neuroscientist explains his quest to understand how reading works in the mind — and how the brain is changed by education and culture

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder defined by serious changes in cognitive, emotional, behavioral and psychological functioning that can occur in response to a psychologically traumatic event.

The PACE trial, published in The Lancet in 2011 [2], examined the effects of three different treatments for people with CFS, compared with usual specialist medical care (SMC): cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT, where a health professional helps the patient to understand and change the way they think about and respond to their symptoms), graded exercise therapy (GET, a personalised and gradually increasing exercise programme delivered by a physiotherapist), and adaptive pacing therapy (APT, where patients adapt activity levels to the amount of energy they have).

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

Examining substantial collections of annotated texts dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries, the researchers found that certain linguistic changes were guided by pressures analogous to natural selection — social, cognitive and other factors — while others seem to have occurred purely by happenstance.

These cognitive impairments may go unnoticed by physicians assessing patients with Parkinson's who are lying down or seated, and could lead to difficulty in daily activities performed while standing and walking, such as tracking conversations, counting change and interpreting traffic signals.

«What makes the results even more persuasive is the remarkable agreement between the cognitive function restoration and the changes in brain functionality as detected by the SPECT scans,» explained Prof. Ben - Jacob.

While functional MRI has been the leading neuroimaging device used by researchers for cognitive research, the KAIST team is confident that this will change over a short period of time from the introduction of NIRSIT.

Dementia is characterized by a change in a person's cognitive abilities over time.

A new study led by a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher shows that decreased estrogen levels after menopause are largely unrelated to changes in cognitive ability and mood.

Those findings suggest the cognitive changes brought on by tDCS may require more treatment sessions to have noticeable improvements in daily functioning, according to Dr. Charvet.

In bringing together global leaders again in 2017 to review advances in the field and update the guidelines, a profound shift in thinking occurred to define Alzheimer's disease biologically, by pathologic brain changes or their biomarkers, and treat cognitive impairment as a symptom / sign of the disease, rather than its definition.

Because the study used cognitive stress as a challenge, it was not confounded by potential group differences in stimulant - induced changes in cerebellar radiotracer delivery.

Researchers have developed a learning method to change cognitive function by manipulating connections in the brain.

Comprising two comprehensive systems - based reviews written by a distinguished group of experts, 1,2 it collates information on common changes observed in cats in a wide range of health areas of interest — from musculoskeletal system health through to cognitive and behavioural health.

This shift in survey mode likely encouraged an increase in self - interviews that in prior waves would have been completed by proxy, possibly leading to a change in the calibration of the self - and proxy - cognitive measures to dementia status.

Stacia Friedman - Hill, Ph.D., a program director at NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, says these findings are particularly relevant to the field of mental health research because many mental health disorders are marked by changes in cognitive function, sometimes years before clinical symptoms become significant, and because mental health disorders often involve changes in the developing brain.

Additionally the functional effects of DBS will be explored in several ways 1) we will look at changes in brain activation patterns in response to specific tasks by means of functional MRI 2) we will look at the striatal D2 binding using [123I] IBZM SPECT 3) we will look at neuropsychological functioning using cognitive tasks.

Recent research by cognitive aging experts suggests that changes related to Alzheimer's disease...

Aging is accompanied by changes in different brain regions and deficits in a constellation of cognitive functions.

We hypothesize that reducing stored iron by calibrated phlebotomy to avoid iron deficiency will improve cerebrovascular function, slow neurodegenerative change, and improve cognitive and behavioral functions in AD.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

This tool has been used to examine network changes induced by cognitive and emotional states, neurological traits, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

If you have a clean bill of health and are still plagued by insomnia, consider cognitive behavioral therapy to change negative thoughts about sleep and relax your mind.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline, and personality changes.

This is further compounded by elevations in metabolic efficiency (whereby energy expenditure declines beyond that predicted from the change in metabolic mass) and appetite which accompany weight - loss, and may ultimately predispose to weight re - gain.82 Moreover, changes in neural activity within brain regions known to be involved in regulatory, emotional and cognitive control of food intake have also been observed following weight - loss.83

Blueberries: Also called «brainberries» by Dr. Steven Platt, MD author of Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods Proven to Change Your Life, blueberries have one of the highest antioxidant capacities of all fruits and vegetables and are known to improve memory and cognitive function.

By altering the context for pain via cognitive control and emotional regulation, meditation may change the way we perceive pain (i.e., viewing it as fleeting).

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), a style of therapy based on changing ingrained and habitual thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that may be contributing to low mood, is one of the main therapeutic modalities for depression and is supported by a number of studies.

In another study on 4,809 participants aged 65 and older, the relationship between consumption of tea and coffee and changes in cognitive function by gender was examined.

Age - related changes in the amygdala, hippocampus and frontal cortex, as well as cognitive and behavioral processes mediated by these brain regions have been related to alterations in 5 - HT function, which may occur as a result of disrupted gut - microbiome - dependent metabolism.»

By the time they were in late middle age, the mice that had not been given melatonin began to develop the behavioral changes and cognitive deficits seen in Alzheimer's disease.

However, we can change the way we respond, and by developing self - awareness, practising cognitive techniques and simply acknowledging the importance of our psychological health we can make a remarkable difference to our experiences and those of others.

Educators sensitive to these changing needs are embracing the cognitive domain of Bloom's Taxonomy as revised by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl.

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

At IEE, we rely on the Cognitive Coaching method to facilitate change in schools by mediating adult thinking and learning.

The Action Grapher app provides that opportunity for students to observe changes across representations and creates cognitive conflict for those students who have the misconception described by Monk (1992).

She was trained by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey as a facilitator of the Immunity to Change coaching method, has completed Cognitive Coaching training and is certified in the Art of Coaching.

To summarize, in order to develop policies that successfully change practice, it is essential to begin by examining the implementer's cognitive perspective.

Cognitive dysfunction syndrome is caused by degenerative changes in the brain, changes very similar to those seen in humans with Alzheimer's disease.

Despite Nye's assertions that skeptics have «cognitive dissonance», many scientists are «underwhelmed» by the evidence for man - made climate change.

Renewable technologies in themselves, in other words, are not a solution by themselves — their success requires a «cognitive transition», translating into a deep change in our entire approach to the consumption and distribution of resources.