Seeing live theater produces important social and
cognitive benefits for students that are not realized by showing them a movie instead.
Beyond the benefits in the future, fasting practices have
shown cognitive benefits that can help you think more clearly.
The week of running was reported to have produced the greatest
cognitive benefits in terms of mental clarity and ability to focus.
Even if there's an ongoing debate about whether or not breastfeeding
provides cognitive benefits, there is no doubt about some of the other positives that go along with breastfeeding.
Several commercial enterprises have claimed you can
get cognitive benefits from brain training games intended to enhance working memory.
Given the
general cognitive benefits of speaking a second language, a decline in language teaching will likely mean a decline in education attainment across the board.
A new study evaluated over 100 test studies of popular «brain training» apps, finding that the
intended cognitive benefits may not be what most customers hope for.
There also appears to be a positive correlation
between cognitive benefits and the mother's frequency of eating fish at least twice a week.
It's well known that children learn by playing and that playing has
numerous cognitive benefits, including flexibility, focus, self - control, organization, and planning.
No one is suggesting that you won't experience more physical and
cognitive benefits from a regular exercise program than you do from one quick, ten - minute walk.
It's probably an empty promise, according to the largest study to date of brain - training software, which finds no evidence of
general cognitive benefits.
One way a parent can make a baby's neurons bloom is to raise the child to be bilingual, which produces
cognitive benefits such as a better handle on abstract thinking and enhanced short - term memory, reports Erica Westly in «The Bilingual Advantage.»
In summary, she wrote: «It must be emphasized that the randomized trial evidence has, to date, uniformly failed to show
cognitive benefits by statins and has supported no effect or frank and significant harm to cognitive function.»
Finding cognitive benefits from even less - than - perfect adherence to the MIND diet is an encouraging development in our quest for body and brain health.
Michael Posner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon's Department of Psychology, in an article entitled «How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition», concurs: «From our perspective, it is increasingly clear that with enough focused attention, training in the arts likely
yields cognitive benefits that go beyond «art for art's sake.»
While the methodology of some of its own, internal studies has been called into question — it's unclear whether playing a Lumosity game translates
into cognitive benefits in real life — Berkowitz is convinced people will continue playing.
In their place — far fewer ads that must walk a fine line, at once highlighting that the games» are based in research, while refraining from explicitly stating that they offer any
tangible cognitive benefits.
Recent studies show only one - in - five employees take lunch breaks, despite
clear cognitive benefits for our fatigued brains.
With a focus on «biophilic» design, the open and communal workspace seeks to connect employees to the physical, psychological and
cognitive benefits derived from direct interaction with nature.
Studies
suggesting cognitive benefits of the Mediterranean diet, which is rich in MUFAs, inspired the researchers to focus on this group of fatty acids.
With AREDS2, Dr. Chew and her team saw another opportunity to investigate the
possible cognitive benefits of omega - 3 supplements, she said.
The results, published Jan. 3 in the journal Depression and Anxiety, showed that the group using Project: EVO demonstrated
specific cognitive benefits (such as attention) compared to the behavioral therapy, and saw similar improvements in mood and self - reported function.
Bilbo says her next plans involve tweaking the rat experiment in an effort to zero in on how the worms
convey cognitive benefits and how they could be applied in potential human treatments.
San Diego (April 22, 2018)-- Older people should drink more water to reap the
full cognitive benefits of exercise, new research suggests.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani:...
first cognitive benefit, the thing that people aren't aware off uh — with the Ketogenic diet?
Both coffee and tea (and the caffeine they contain) are linked to
positive cognitive benefits, but should probably be consumed without milk as dairy can block phytonutrient absorption.
A study published in Military Medicine showed that adult men who ingested choline at a rate of 50 mg per kg of body weight did not get
significant cognitive benefits from it.
Nandita identified
indirect cognitive benefits among average children using tests designed to introduce syntactic ambiguity; the testing revealed that bilingual children employed more advanced cognitive and linguistic strategies to resolve such ambiguities than did monolingual children.
A study published in Pediatrics in March 2017 reports that there are no long -
term cognitive benefits of breastfeeding.
Over time, I believe that research will show more of the same kind of
cognitive benefits for children with ASD's and other developmental disabilities.»
The new study appears to break ground by showing an effect — and a benefit — from a much smaller and shorter - lived nature exposure... «Nature can
provide cognitive benefits in much shorter timeframes, and in smaller amounts than previously demonstrated,» the authors concluded.
And studies have found that language immersion confers
other cognitive benefits as well, such as enhanced problem - solving abilities.