Sentences with phrase «cognitive factors during»

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Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19

In a large population - based study of randomly selected participants in Germany, researchers found that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) occurred significantly more often in individuals diagnosed with a lower ankle brachial index (ABI), which is a marker of generalized atherosclerosis and thus cumulative exposure to cardiovascular risk factors during lifetime.

Biological factors such as maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, low infant birth weight, premature birth, poor infant physical growth and nutritional status at follow - up were not as strongly linked to cognitive ability as the socio - environmental factors assessed during the study: home environment, maternal depression, parental education and socio - economic status.

In the Lu laboratory, we aim to elucidate the signaling cascades that establish neural circuit connections during brain development, to understand how sensory experiences and environmental factors affect neural circuit wiring and cognitive behaviors, and to identify novel factors required to maintain the health of neural circuits during aging.

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

Factors which were found to be significantly related to lower cognitive scores included maternal characteristics (low maternal educational attainment and younger age) and socio - economic factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early Factors which were found to be significantly related to lower cognitive scores included maternal characteristics (low maternal educational attainment and younger age) and socio - economic factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early years).

During an initial assessment, children completed self - report measures assessing cognitive and interpersonal vulnerability factors to depression.

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and children's cognitive and physical development: a causal risk factor?