Sentences with phrase «cognitive deficits associated»

Thus, anatomical brain changes may contribute to specific cognitive deficits associated with very preterm birth and could be used in the identification of those individuals who may be at increased risk for cognitive impairment.

«There are some cognitive rehabilitation strategies that may decrease the cognitive deficits associated with a brain injury,» Fann said.

Research interest: Cognitive deficits associated with «normal» aging and Alzheimer's disease Research page

Progress in this research project has the potential to provide insights into large - scale circuit mechanisms of cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

But Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues believe they may finally have pinpointed the cause of these puzzling personality twists as well as other cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's: petite mal (nonconvulsive) seizures similar to those exhibited in some types of epilepsy.

Studies in mice showed that the treatment appeared to reduce the cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome.

Not exact matches

«Children who have profound visual deficits often expend a disproportionate amount of effort trying to see straight ahead, and as a consequence they neglect their peripheral vision,» said Duje Tadin, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

Whereas amyloid may show up in various brain areas, tau appears more restricted to regions associated with the cognitive deficits.

M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, scientific director, Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH, explained in a plenary session address that many chronic pain patients show associated anxiety and depression as well as deficits in cognitive functions.

«Distraction is a leading cause of injury and death in driving and other high - stakes environments, and has been associated with attentional deficits, so these results have important implications,» says McDonald, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience.

The results of this study provide measures associated with normal cognitive aging in Border collies, and thus could be used as a basis for breed comparisons as well as early recognition and treatment of certain cognitive deficits.

Outdoor exposure has long been associated with healthier cognitive functioning in children, with reduction in Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms and greater emotional capacity.

«The results of this study are exciting because this technology has the potential to improve pre-diction of psychosis and ultimately help us prevent psychosis by helping researchers develop re-mediation and training strategies that target the cognitive deficits that may underlie language dis - turbance,» said the study's first author, Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

We will explore whether the intravenous administration of the recombinant protein is able to reduce Aβ accumulation in the mouse brain and prevent the cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with that pathology.

Mar. 14, 2014 — A brain - mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cognitive skill may underlie the profound difficulty with social interactions that characterize the disorder.

Diabetes mellitus is associated with moderate cognitive deficits and neurophysiological and structural changes in the brain, a condition that may be referred to as diabetic encephalopathy.

Based on these results Lemere's team concluded that complement C3, or associated downstream signaling, play an important role in age - related cognitive decline and behavioral deficits.

Diabetes mellitus is associated with cognitive deficits and an increased risk of dementia, particularly in the elderly.

This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

LA JOLLA — Salk scientists have found further evidence that a natural compound in strawberries reduces cognitive deficits and inflammation associated with aging in mice.

Among several cognitive components associated with these symptoms, inferring others» emotions and beliefs is suggested to be one of the most important cognitive components whose disturbance is deeply related to deficits in social communication and social interaction of ASD (Frith, 2001).

Even more, drinking coffee is associated with reduced motor and cognitive deficits in aging thanks to coffee's polyphenols and other bioactive compounds.

Pyroluria, like copper - zinc imbalance, was first researched at the Brain - Bio Center.36 Pyroluria patients display a range of symptoms connected with severe zinc deficiency that are familiar to me from my work with Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS), including nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal pains and headache — all of which can be associated with food intolerance and digestive problems — as well as nervous exhaustion, emotional fragility, palpitations, depression and insomnia.37 Other complications include abnormal EEG findings38 and cognitive difficulties ranging from misperceptions and hallucinations39 to amnesia.40 Cognitive deficits such as memory, attention and concentration disturbance are widely recognized in CFIDS patients41 and can occasionally take on more serious manifecognitive difficulties ranging from misperceptions and hallucinations39 to amnesia.40 Cognitive deficits such as memory, attention and concentration disturbance are widely recognized in CFIDS patients41 and can occasionally take on more serious manifeCognitive deficits such as memory, attention and concentration disturbance are widely recognized in CFIDS patients41 and can occasionally take on more serious manifestations.

The resulting immune response, which occurs irrespective of weight gain, may cause cognitive deficits such as those associated with Alzheimer's.

The major cognitive deficits that accompany mild disabilities are problems usually associated with reading and math (for example, reading comprehension, spelling, oral recitation, hand eye coordination, computation, and visual spatial orientation), so special education teachers and administrators may not see the pertinence of addressing these deficits in the social studies curriculum.

Low blood lead levels associated with clinically diagnosed attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder and mediated by weak cognitive control.

In therapy, I enjoy helping individuals adjust to changing identities associated with cognitive impairment or life stress, learn to compensate for and remediate areas of deficit, and maximize one's independence.

Worsening of depression was associated with improving cognitive function, indicating that stroke patients who are more cognitively impaired are somehow emotionally insulated from their stroke - related deficits.

Despite studies suggesting deficits in emotion perception and imagining others in pain, professor Simon Baron - Cohen claims psychopathy is associated with intact cognitive empathy, which would imply an intact ability to read and respond to behaviors, social cues and what others are feeling.

Given the evidence to suggest that deficits in executive functioning are associated with psychopathology across a range of mental illnesses, 8 9 this may be particularly the case for cognitive training using exercises focusing on this domain.

Youths in this population are likely to have a number of precursors, characteristic co-morbidities, and associated cognitive deficits.

Deficits in self - regulation across multiple domains of functioning, from the physiological to the cognitive, are associated with early behavior problems, and may place children at greater risk for the development of later antisocial behavior.