Sentences with phrase «cognitive deficits found»

Studies have shown similar effects in disorders such as depression, he says, but this is the first time it has been related directly to cognitive deficits found in schizophrenia.

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I find it's often helpful to get some sense of a concussed patient's cognitive deficits by performing a neurocognitive assessment, either using a standard written concussion assessment tool, or one of the many computer - based assessment tools.

Mandating such a limit would dramatically reduce total head trauma, including the accumulation of sub-concussive hits that researchers at Purdue in a 2010 study found can lead to subtle cognitive deficits that evade detection via the usual signs or symptoms method.

Just as some American football players and boxers have been found to have long - term cognitive deficits after suffering repeated head blows or concussions during play, so soccer and rugby players must be made aware of the same dangers.

There is limited research on the subject, but some studies have found that babies born to mothers who smoked marijuana while pregnant can have some cognitive deficits.

The abnormalities were found in patients not currently experiencing depression or mania, which suggests that there is a structural basis for altered neural processing that may help explain why cognitive deficits persist even during periods of normal mood.

The findings suggest that interventions designed to target deficits in cognitive - affective responding may be effective for prevention and intervention programs for depression following natural disasters.

Nearly three - quarters of homeless adults with mental illness in Canada show evidence of cognitive deficits, such as difficulties with problem solving, learning and memory, new research has found.

Now, by dampening the activity of a small group of neurons deep within the mouse brain, researchers have produced cognitive deficits similar to those found in those with schizophrenia, a discovery that they say could potentially lead to new treatments for the disorder, which affects roughly 24 million people worldwide.

«By isolating a protein that contributes to cognitive deficits in Angelman syndrome, these findings mark a step forward in not only addressing AS, but perhaps other developmental disorders as well,» said Eric Klann, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science and one of the study's co-authors.

Therefore, our findings might indicate a key mechanism underlying cognitive deficits in old age.

These findings will be discussed in the context of consistent data from other cognitive assays measuring deficits in response inhibition.

This finding is of great significance considering that cognitive deficits paralleled the early accumulation of soluble Aβ peptides and further progressed across age and with the advancement of the soluble Aβ42 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.

An expert in cognitive rehabilitation research, she has focused on finding new ways to treat cognitive deficits in the brain injury and multiple sclerosis populations.

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

This corroborates the use of feature binding tests in preclinical AD studies and suggests that specific cognitive deficits can be found in SCD.

Researchers didn't find a link between this brain region and memory deficits in people with Alzheimer's disease, only in those without any diagnosis of cognitive decline.

Though the authors couldn't pinpoint a mechanism from this study — it was associative — they note that one possibility is that the overconsumption of sugars and refined starches is a risk factor for inflammation and cardiovascular disease, both of which have been linked to the development of depression.This kind of diet could also lead insulin resistance, which has been linked to cognitive deficits similar to those found in people with major depression.

The cognitive deficits of chronic fatigue patients are often characterized as «brain fog,» 49 and investigators have found a general slowing down of brain functions.50 For patients to complain of rushing, frantic thought processes is an anomaly that can complicate the diagnosis of chronic fatigue, unless its role as a tipoff of possible high copper is recognized.

«This finding supports the argument that it's not just a few students who are having trouble using retrieval - based strategies when they are expected to do so, and the prevalence of this problem suggests that researchers need to stop looking for explanations that are based on cognitive deficit, which are thought to originate with the child, but focus more on understanding how teaching practices can contribute and even hinder children's development of basic number fact fluency.»

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Expected cognitive deficits were found in the depressed compared to the control group at baseline although only a few domains (verbal learning, memory and executive functioning) were related to depressive severity.

Furthermore, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a strong link has been found between autism and a deficit of cognitive empathy [8, 9].

The influence of serotonin - and other genes on impulsive behavioral aggression and cognitive impulsivity in children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Findings from a family - based association test (FBAT) analysis

These findings suggest that cognitive deficits precede the onset of depression and are not solely a state characteristic of depression, but are also likely to be a pre-morbid trait of some individuals who develop depression.