Sentences with phrase «cognitive change with age»

Psychologist Ian Deary of the University of Edinburgh dug up the tests in 1997, seeing in them an unparalleled opportunity to track cognitive changes with age.

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Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

Rush is currently seeking volunteers to participate in the study (www.rush.edu/clinical-trials/effect-weight-loss-diets-brain-health-and-cognitive-decline-study), which aims to show whether a specific diet can prevent cognitive decline and brain changes with age.

The current study, which enrolled 152 adults ages 50 and older, was designed to assess whether silent pathological changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer's and detected with positron emission tomography (PET) can predict cognitive decline.

«Because both slightly lower serum sodium levels and mild changes in cognitive function are common occurrences with advancing age, future research on this topic is important — including determining whether correcting lower sodium levels affects cognitive function.»

For example, women with early menopause are candidates for hormone therapy until at least the average age of menopause (52 years) to reduce the risks of heart disease, osteoporosis, and cognitive and mood changes.

The grants will focus on Alzheimer's disease and on age - related cognitive change — changes in thinking, learning, and memory that can come with growing older.

Although increased age was associated with specific influences on speed in cross-sectional comparisons, and in memory change in longitudinal comparisons among older adults, most of the relations between age and cognitive functioning in both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons were manifested as general influences shared with other cognitive measures.

Maintaining physical, cognitive, and mental health with aging may provide a more powerful incentive for dietary change than simply prolonging life or avoiding any single chronic disease.»

After four years of follow - up evaluations, 200 participants were beginning to show mild cognitive impairment, problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment that are greater than normal age - related changes.

The magnitude of cognitive change associated with saturated fat consumption was equivalent to about six years of ageing, meaning women with the lowest saturated fat intake had the brain function of women six years younger.»

The study's finding that the start - time effects are pronounced beginning at age 13 is consistent with the theory that hormonal changes in adolescence (typically beginning at 13 or 14) make it difficult for students to get enough sleep when school starts early, leading to sleep deficiencies that many studies have found to be associated with a decrease in cognitive performance.

Susan Eng, vice-president of advocacy for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) agrees that aging Canadians have a lack of financial awareness, but she says it may have to do more with generational differences than cognitive changes.

Age - related behavioral changes may be useful indicators for medical intervention for dogs with signs of cognitive impairment.

Impact of the study: Data collected provide estimates of the prevalence of various degrees of age - related behavioral changes associated with cognitive dysfunction in dogs.

Senior pets are predisposed to separation anxiety as they develop cognitive changes associated with aging.

Another study, also performed on dogs, discovered that the senior dogs who consumed high - antioxidant foods were less likely to suffer from the behavioral changes typically associated with the cognitive decline commonly seen as they age.

Cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS) is associated with brain ageing and is a type of dementia that can lead to a variety of changes in your pet's behaviour.

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

Prevalence of behavioral change associated with age - related cognitive impairment in dogs.

Prevalence of behavioral changes associated with age - related cognitive impairment in dogs.

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In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

I provide cognitive rehabilitation interventions for individuals coping with neurological and neuropsychological conditions such as age - related memory changes, tumor, epilepsy, brain injury, stroke, ADHD, learning disability, and neurotoxic infections.

Conflictual or critical interactions also may be particularly important for older spouses, given that health changes, decrements in cognitive functioning, caregiving, retirement, and other stressors associated with aging may create strains that compromise marital well - being, even among couples with historically strong relationships (Bookwala, 2005; Roberto, McCann, & Blieszner, 2013).