According to well - known low carb researchers Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek, 0.5 mM is the very bottom of the cutoff for nutritional ketosis (0.5 - 5.0 mM)(6), so it's possible that subjects would have had even better improvement in
cognitive assessments if their ketone levels were higher.
Not exact matches
nPTLS subjects were excluded
if history or testing revealed a medical condition that could cause
cognitive impairment or confound neuropsychological
assessment (e.g., neurological disease, autoimmune disease, unstable thyroid disease, learning disability, substance abuse, B12 deficiency).
It is possible, however, for evaluators to determine
if a child has dyscalculia and learning disabilities in math through general types of diagnostic math
assessments, reviews of student work, and
cognitive assessments.
The state is to administer math, reading / ELA and science
assessments to all students in the state, and these
assessments are to be the same
assessments for all students except for those with the most severe
cognitive disabilities (these students are limited to one percent of all students in the state, but the limit can be waived
if necessary — see pages 61 and 65).