Sentences with phrase «cognitive effects»

The study did show some positive short - term cognitive effects of breastfeeding, but no long - term advantages.

And numerous other studies suggest that touch can have additional positive cognitive effects.

The placebo controlled study resulted in reduced pain perception as well, although temporary, adverse cognitive effects as well as increase in fatigue was also reported.

Birth injuries and birth defects are both tragic events that can have a huge physical or cognitive effect on a newborn child and development.

While the benefit of having such instant access to information is welcomed, the potential cognitive effects a phone's presence may have on one's mind isn't.

This article has some fascinating points about the importance of risks, danger and adventure for children in their play and how not having these elements can have social and cognitive effects later on.

The lasting cognitive effects of a brain injury can prevent people from doing their jobs, attending school, or interacting with their friends and family.

Design of learning spaces: Emotional and cognitive effects of learning environments in relation to child development.

They have positive cognitive effects and may even help improve moods.

In a recent weblog entry I described studies that failed to demonstrate significant cognitive effects of musical training on cognitive development (except in children receiving intense musical training).

«Here we see strikingly beneficial cognitive effects of a sound postnatal diet.

He points out that many animal studies used to extrapolate possible deleterious cognitive effects in humans had administered large amounts of methamphetamine from the outset, a regimen unlike the gradual escalation in dosing undertaken by illicit drug users, which avoids these consequences.

«Studies in humans of the long - term effects of drinking during adolescence are just beginning to emerge, but the data we do have indicate negative cognitive effects, and this puts us one step closer to one day being able to reverse those,» Swartzwelder said.

«These studies, however, were limited by having small numbers of participants and / or by looking at the effects of single doses of oxytocin on specific behaviours or cognitive effects while the participants had the oxytocin in their system.

What Pre-K Means We encourage everyone to read this op - ed about new research showing that high quality Pre-K programs have «powerful long - term cognitive effects» on children.

«The news is more that we should not only look at lung functionality after the flu, but also cognitive effects, weeks and months after infection.»

«What we're trying to teach patients is that very small quantities can achieve the kind of plasma levels that give you pain relief, but stop short of the psychoactive and acute cognitive effects that we're concerned about,» he explained.

But there are cognitive effects as well: people with Huntington's have trouble interpreting the emotions of others, mistaking fear for anger, sadness for surprise, or any of these for nothing at all.

Middle - school and younger high - school students displayed more pronounced cognitive effects and greater performance deterioration according to neurocognitive testing after a concussion than their senior high - school and college - aged counterparts.

«Cognitive functioning overwhelmingly falls within the normal range,» the report states, while adding that researchers» pre-existing assumptions about meth's detrimental effects «should be reevaluated to document the actual pattern of cognitive effects caused by the drug.»

To measure the immediate cognitive effects of two types of fiction, Castano and Kidd designed five related experiments.

A fewer number of studies have compared cognitive effects of TMS and ECT.

But as information finds more ways to reach us, more often, more insistently than ever before, another consequence is becoming alarmingly clear: trying to drink from a firehose of information has harmful cognitive effects.

Several cross-sectional studies have linked reduced IGF - 1 levels with cognitive decline, and favorable cognitive effects of growth hormone - releasing hormone (GHRH) have been reported in a controlled study in healthy elderly people [39].

The authors point out that creatine supplementation has previously been shown to enhance memory and reduce fatigue in calculation tests, and their own study adds to the weight of evidence supporting the positive cognitive effects of creatine.

Since whole - brain radiation is associated with significant cognitive effects and the use of additional radiation therapy for progression is common in this population, the Yale researchers suspect that patients with the ALK mutation would benefit from radiation focused on individual metastases.

«Our ability to relate those beneficial cognitive effects to specific properties of brain networks is exciting,» Barbey said.

Lipids are integral to the central nervous system, and as studies of statins and diabetes drugs have shown, dropping levels of some lipids can have deleterious cognitive effects.

Neuronal mechanism behind the increased pain sensitivity from sleep deprivation on pain has been investigated further, in rats and human volunteers in parallel and central pain modulatory mechanisms are involved in parallel to negative cognitive effects.

But at roughly the same time, he received a request from the U.S. Air Force, which wanted him to test the potential cognitive effects of exposure to monomethylhydrazine, a substance used in some rocket fuels and known to cause seizures.

Evaluators of the first three programs — none of which used the rigorous randomized designs used in the HSIS — claim very large cognitive effects, some nearly ten times those of the typical Head Start program.

Further, the adverse cognitive effects of some statins are likely due to the inhibition of vitamin K2 synthesis, K2 is required to make sulfatides which are part of the coating for neurons.

Research has found that exposure to lead can have adverse neurological and cognitive effects on children.

«Regardless of being located outside of what is considered the Mediterranean region, the positive cognitive effects of a higher adherence to a MedDiet were similar in all evaluated papers,» Hardman, a PhD candidate at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, said in a press release.

«We were a bit surprised by the magnitude» of the cognitive effects, says Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA who oversaw the study, in a New York Times article.

In social network research, the idea that social connections have a cognitive effect is an established fact: they are a prism through which one sees the world.

Cognitive effects of one season of head impacts in a cohort of collegiate contact sports athletes.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine points out that this effect has been linked to «genetic damage, reproductive defects, cancer, neurological degeneration and nervous system dysfunction, immune system dysfunction, cognitive effects, protein and peptide damage, kidney damage, and developmental effects...

Unfortunately, the truth is that you can be traumatized during birth, and that the cognitive effects of that trauma can stay with you for years.

Yet these cardiovascular consequences are believed to be linked to the way non-O blood types coagulate, which did not seem to contribute to the cognitive effects described in the new study.

The best way to study marijuana's cognitive effects would be to administer the drug to individuals and see how duration, frequency, and dose affect the brain, Jackson says.

Learn what the science says about some popular claims regarding the cognitive effects of certain drinks

The study, published today in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, is the first systematic review to examine the effectiveness and cognitive effects of standard ECT treatment, brief pulse stimulation, versus the newer treatment, known as ultra-brief pulse right unilateral (RUL) ECT.

These findings reveal how the cognitive effects of THC are triggered by a pathway which is separate from some of its other effects.

Their latest findings, published today in the journal PLOS Biology, reveal how the cognitive effects of THC are triggered by a pathway which is separate from some of its other effects.

In the most comprehensive study yet of metformin's cognitive effects, Qian Shi and her colleagues at Tulane University followed 6,000 diabetic veterans and showed that the longer a patient used metformin, the lower the individual's chances of developing Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other types of dementia and cognitive impairment.

In a new review of the effects of acute exercise published in Brain Plasticity, researchers not only summarize the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single bout of exercise, but also summarize data from a large number of neurophysiological and neurochemical studies in both humans and animals showing the wide range of brain changes that result from a single session of physical exercise (i.e., acute exercise).