Sentences with phrase «cognitive function by»

At the Masley Optimal Health Center, Dr. Masley has improved his patients» cognitive function by an average of 25 % while reducing their arterial plaque load and risk of diabetes, and his book shows you how you can do the same.

In another study on 4,809 participants aged 65 and older, the relationship between consumption of tea and coffee and changes in cognitive function by gender was examined.

I don't know if they've always eaten so poorly, or if it's a result of low cognitive function by the time I see them, but I'm regularly amazed at the amount of candy, and the absolute lack of any other nutrients, consumed.

«If there was a new drug on the market that would improve cognitive function by 15 percent, increase blood flow in critical areas for thinking in the brain, reduce toxic proteins in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease and improve overall health status — with no side effects — who wouldn't take this drug?»

Researchers in Wales set out to test the theory that chewing gum can improve both mood and cognitive function by subjecting volunteers to stress tests, monitoring their heart rates, and measuring cortisol in their saliva.

Researchers have developed a learning method to change cognitive function by manipulating connections in the brain.

«These results suggest that the aging brain maintains healthy cognitive function by increasing bilateral communication.»

Dr. Smith has previously shown that a walking exercise intervention for patients with mild cognitive decline improved cognitive function by improving the efficiency of brain activity associated with memory.

With this goal in mind, Nakashima and his collaborators will next examine whether voluntary exercise improves cognitive functioning by restoring the normal balance of excitatory and inhibitory signals in the hippocampus.

These are complemented by tests on specific cognitive functions by subtests from the developmental neuropsychological test battery A Developmental NEuroPSYchological Assessment, version 2 (NEPSY - II) including attention and executive functioning, language, social perception, sensorimotor and visuospatial processing (Delhi) and adaptive functioning by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Bangalore).

Not exact matches

Just look at this list of benefits from a recent study done at the Yale - Griffin Prevention Research Center by David L. Katz, MD, and his colleagues: «Cocoa can protect nerves from injury and inflammation, protect the skin from oxidative damage from UV radiation... and have beneficial effects on satiety, cognitive function, and mood.»

«Cognitive exercises are an attempt to improve brain function by harnessing our brain's inherent plasticity, rather than by explicitly teaching a strategy or a skill.

For people pursuing a fast life strategy like that embodied by the Dark Triad traits, it's better to occupy and exploit a low light environment where others are sleeping and have diminished cognitive functioning.»

Like all cognitive functions, creative thinking is significantly impaired by sleep deprivation.

A 2012 study by the Montreal Heart Institute showed aerobic exercise increased cognitive function.

The term «myth», by contrast, is so generally assumed to mean simply «an untrue story» that it is probably impossible for most people to take the cognitive functions of myth seriously.

He writes: «My criticism, then, is principally directed against the attempt to explain the historical identity of Christianity by means of speculative thought (idealism), without regard to the constitutive function of Christian praxis, the cognitive equivalent of which is narrative and memory.

By rendering feeling as the interactive function of dative and concrescent actual entities, he can maintain that the subject - object distinction does not merely supervene at any special cognitive level and hence need not be identified either with the difference or the identity of knower and known.

Brain Octane rapidly provides mental and physical energy, powering your day by supporting cognitive function and keeping you satisfied and free from food cravings.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

The research contradicts the findings of earlier studies, including one by researchers at Florida Tech in 2003, which suggested that heading in soccer may result in the short term in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced information processing speed.

Two 2003 studies suggest that heading in soccer may result in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced information processing speed, but a critical review of the literature in 2010 by an expert panel of the American Academy of Pediatrics found no support for such a finding, and a 2012 study in the journal Neurosurgery concluded that it was «unlikely» that the subtle cognitive differences detected were sufficient to affect the daily lives of players.

I saw a study that compared SpongeBob to Caillou, and they found a decrease in cognitive functions after watching SpongeBob, but no difference between watching Caillou and sitting by a table with crayons (drawing, or whatever preschoolers do when sitting by a table with crayons).

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

Psychologist Anne McLaughlin can't remember exactly how she found out that her work on improving older adults» cognitive function with video games had been featured in Summertime Blues, a 2010 report by senators Tom Coburn (R - OK) and John McCain (R - AZ) about projects that «give taxpayers the blues.»

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

Ten weeks of intravenous antibiotics improved cognitive functioning in Lyme disease patients in a 2004 study funded by the National Institutes of Health and carried out by psychiatrist Brian Fallon at Columbia University.

Cognitive computing researchers at IBM are developing a new generation of «neuro - synaptic» computer chips inspired by the organization and function of the brain.

«These findings help reinforce a strategy whereby individuals may be able to improve their emotional functioning — their mood, their anxiety, their experience of depression — not only by directly addressing those phenomena, but also by indirectly improving their general cognitive functioning,» said Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.

«Factors such as adhering to a healthy lifestyle including a diet that is rich in essential nutrients, regular exercise engagement, and having an adequate cardiovascular profile all seem to be effective ways by which to preserve cognitive function and delay cognitive decline,» said Cohen.

As the emotional intensity rises it is accompanied by a decline in frontal lobe cognitive functioning.

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the study probes members of the Native American Church for deficits in memory and other cognitive functions.

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder defined by serious changes in cognitive, emotional, behavioral and psychological functioning that can occur in response to a psychologically traumatic event.

First described in 1907 by the German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, the disease is vicious and progressively destroys memory and cognitive function.

Better measures of school - based cognitive function were associated with late - term infants born at 41 weeks but those children performed worse on a measure of physical functioning compared with infants born full term at 39 or 40 weeks, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Some of the clearest evidence comes from the Cognitive Function and Aging Study (CFAS), led by Carol Brayne, professor of public health medicine at the University of Cambridge.

«By comparison, people who were never hospitalized and those who had elective hospitalizations did not experience the drastic decline in cognitive function.»

The new clinical trial, led by Braley and funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, will investigate whether cognitive function in MS patients improves when sleep apnea is treated.

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

Still, some researchers held out hope that the drug would at least improve cognitive function, as suggested by a few smaller studies.

He and his team have now gathered that data by exploring the impact of long - term BACE1 inhibition on dendritic spine dynamics, synaptic functions, and cognitive performance in adult mice.

For example, work by Whitfield and his colleagues suggests that social support might play a key role in preserving cognitive functioning among African - Americans.

Cochlear implantation was associated with improved speech perception and cognitive function in adults 65 years or older with profound hearing loss, according to a report published online by JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

When you put all this together, you find that «bird flowers» are really «anti-bee flowers» that function by exploiting specific sensory and cognitive limitations.»

«MBSR provides a creative solution for survivors whose social and occupational functioning may have been negatively impacted by cognitive difficulties.»

«What makes the results even more persuasive is the remarkable agreement between the cognitive function restoration and the changes in brain functionality as detected by the SPECT scans,» explained Prof. Ben - Jacob.

Parkinson's disease affects approximately 7 - 10 million people worldwide and is characterised by progressive loss of motor function, psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment.

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