Sentences with phrase «cognitive change occurs»

Yet, without the multi-domain testing of the same infants longitudinally, such data can not be used to evaluate whether the timing of cognitive change occurs in a domain - general or a domain - specific way.

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[N] ight wakings must be understood in the context of cognitive, emotional, and physical changes that occur at different developmental stages.

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.

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.

The investigators summarized a large and growing body of research examining the changes that occur at the cognitive / behavioral, neurophysiological, and neurochemical levels after a single bout of physical exercise in both humans and animals.

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.

The second changes are brain abnormalities related to the vascular system, which can occur 20 years before overt cognitive symptoms appear.»

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.

As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, Luna studies those changes that occur in the brain as children develop into adults.

As it happens, both young men and women experience a growth spurt in adolescence that is second only to the rapid growth that occurs in the first year of life.2 With the onset of puberty come increases in height, weight and bone mass; cognitive changes; and reproductive maturation.3 Adolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other life stage.

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.»

The change in the schematic structures and pathways will not occur, simply because the learner can not process the information being offered within the lesson.Therefore, from an instructional design point of view, eLearning courses should be created in such a way that reduces the cognitive load that is placed upon the learners.

Cats with age - related cognitive difficulty may start to groom excessively as a reaction to neurological changes that can occur with age.

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.

Early adversity increases adaptive challenges faced by adolescents who are already dealing with the normative biological, cognitive, and social changes that occur during this life stage (Cicchetti and Rogosch 2002; Conger et al. 1994; Harter 2012; Hildyard and Wolfe 2002; Steinberg 2008).

Rapid and dynamic cognitive, developmental, and emotional changes occur during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.