Sentences with phrase «cognitive improvement on»

And there was only cognitive improvement on some tests, not all.

Not exact matches

All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

While Duncan and Magnuson indicate that family income has a preponderant causal effect on both children's cognitive and economic development and on their academic achievements, they also suggest that economic improvement will not, in itself, necessarily resolve psychosocial development and behavioural problems.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

It could also add an estimated US$ 300 billion into the global economy annually, based on improvements in cognitive ability if every infant was breastfed until at least 6 months of age and their expected increased earnings later in life.

In addition, analyses on three conditions — cognitive ability, childhood obesity and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-- indicate that modest improvements in breastfeeding rates could save millions of pounds and, in the case of SIDS, children's lives.

The researchers hope the study will lead to a better understanding of how skilled livestock are in their aptitude to solve problems and interact with humans based on their cognitive abilities — and to an improvement in animal welfare in general.

After undergoing the complex process, nine of the 10 participants, who suffered from cognitive impairment or memory loss associated with Alzheimer's, displayed improvement in memory three to six months into the program — a joint venture between the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

Some patients on the lower dose of the drug saw some improvements on a cognitive test over those who got the placebo, but the small differences could have been due to chance.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

«I am especially excited about the improvements we observed in cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions because these abnormalities are particularly hard on the kids — and their parents,» said first author Ania Gheyara, MD, PhD, a staff scientist at Gladstone who is also affiliated with the UCSF Department of Pathology.

The researchers also examined if cognitive improvements depended on the type of physical activity patients engaged in.

Those findings suggest the cognitive changes brought on by tDCS may require more treatment sessions to have noticeable improvements in daily functioning, according to Dr. Charvet.

It is not clear exactly how the apps also improved the patients» daily functioning, but the researchers suggest it may be because improvements in memory had a direct impact on global functions or that the cognitive training may have had an indirect impact on functionality by improving general motivation and restoring self - esteem.

Researchers found participants in the group treated with tDCS showed significantly greater improvements on sensitive, computer - based measures of complex attention and increases in their response times across trials compared to the group that did cognitive training games alone.

This was an uncontrolled and open study, and so it is difficult to know how much significance we should place on the small improvements in neuropsychological test scores observed in the mild cognitive impairment participants who underwent the training.

Among recent findings are the benefits of cognitive reserve and aerobic exercise; correlation between cognitive performance and outdoor temperatures; efficacy of short - term cognitive rehabilitation using modified story technique; and the correlation between memory improvement and cerebral activation on fMRI.

Of special note today: A randomized double blind controlled clinical trial on the impacts of probiotics on Alzheimer's demonstrated an improvement in cognitive function, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and C reactive protein; and a meta - analysis of the lung microbiome in tuberculosis identified specific species that are characteristic of the disease.

Research findings include the benefits of cognitive reserve and aerobic exercise; correlation between cognitive performance and outdoor temperatures; efficacy of short - term cognitive rehabilitation using modified story technique; and the correlation between memory improvement and cerebral activation on fMRI.

Among discoveries are the benefits of cognitive reserve and aerobic exercise; correlation between cognitive performance and outdoor temperatures; efficacy of short - term cognitive rehabilitation using modified story technique; and the correlation between memory improvement and cerebral activation on fMRI.

Cognitive improvement corresponded with normalization of activation patterns on fMRI.

A significant correlation between performance on the cognitive test and BHB levels were observed, with those presenting with the highest BHB levels showing the most improvement.

In a study on Alzheimer's, a single dose produced such a significant improvement in cognitive function, it far surpassed any other study ever conducted.

A study on Alzheimer's patients found that administering 40 ml of extra virgin coconut oil per day led to improvements in cognitive performance — particularly in women and type II diabetics.

«The present study demonstrated that regular resistance exercises could provide significant gains on the upper and lower body strength concomitant to positive improvements on cognitive capacities of elderly women, bringing enhanced life quality.»

On small study from 2004 also showed cognitive improvement when Alzheimer's disease patients were given MCT oils, but the amount of improvement was affected by certain genetic markers.

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

According to Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and co-investigator on this study, better training and smaller child - staff ratios «lead to better, as well as more, interactions between children and adults, which in turn lead to improvement in children's cognitive and social competence.»

The standard response to the must - be-paid-for stipulation by advocates of more public spending on childcare is that such expenditures will produce improvements in the cognitive, social, and emotional skills of young children that, in turn, will lead children to do better as they progress through school and enter the workforce as adults.

Jobs for the Future launched Students at the Center by commissioning teams of distinguished scholars to synthesize existing research on student motivation and engagement, cognitive development, school improvement, and efforts to take effective teaching practices to scale.

Of the 69 dogs with cognitive dysfunction mentioned above, approximately 76 percent showed improvement on selegiline hydrochloride after one month of therapy.

A separate study on laboratory dogs supplemented with Novifit showed improvement in cognitive processes, including attention and problem solving (Straus 2012).

PANSS negative Cognitive therapy did not have a significant effect on negative symptoms at any follow - up time: estimated improvement − 1.02 (95 % CI − 2.35 to 0.30) compared with the treatment as usual group.

At my practice, I offer Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy, which is goal - oriented and focuses on making clear improvements.

While Duncan and Magnuson indicate that family income has a preponderant causal effect on both children's cognitive and economic development and on their academic achievements, they also suggest that economic improvement will not, in itself, necessarily resolve psychosocial development and behavioural problems.

Recognizing the opportunity to use the MIECHV program to help improve new mothers» mental health, many states are building on promising approaches to address postpartum depression directly through home visiting programs in effective, innovative ways.27 In 2014, 68 percent of state MIECHV - funded programs increased screenings for maternal depressive symptoms and improved referral rates among pregnant women or women enrolled in home visiting programs.28 Additionally, 70 percent of state programs reported improvements to parents» emotional well - being by successfully lowering reported parental stress and reducing rates of depressive symptoms among participating families.29 For example, Moving Beyond Depression is a program that uses in - home cognitive behavioral therapy to ameliorate, not just screen for, maternal depression.

This finding of the lack of impact on cognition is not surprising at one level as cognition is not targeted in either CBT or ST.. In fact there is surprisingly little evidence regarding the impact of psychotherapies or pharmacotherapy for depression on cognition, although the persistence of cognitive dysfunction despite improvement in depressive symptoms following treatment suggests that these most current treatments for depression are having little impact in this area (1).

Improvements in the patients» perceptions of interference with daily activities, severity of fatigue, performance on the walking test, and reduction in the numbers of days spent in bed were all greater in the patients given cognitive behaviour therapy.

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The effects of a self - regulation ability improvement program on young children's cognitive and emotional self - regulation abilities and on reduction in aggression Korean Journal of Early Childhood Education [Internet].

TY - JOUR AU - 박지현 AU - Hana Song TI - The effects of a self - regulation ability improvement program on young children's cognitive and emotional self - regulation abilities and on reduction in aggression T2 - Korean Journal of Early Childhood Education PY - 2011 VL - 31 IS - 1 PB - The Korean Society For Early Childhood Education SP - 157 - 182 SN - 1226 - 9565 AB - This study was conducted to ascertain how a self - regulation ability enhancement program could effect 4 to 5 year - old children's recognition of their cognitive and emotional regulation abilities.

The effects of a self - regulation ability improvement program on young children's cognitive and emotional self - regulation abilities and on reduction in aggression.

A program which focuses on what early childhood leaders and educators need to know and be able to do in order to understand and connect the variety of systems serving children (birth to grade 4) and to ensure instructional improvements that will lead to student growth in cognitive, social, emotional, and attention areas.

3 FACTORS WHICH HELP OR HINDER IMPROVEMENT 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Key findings 3.3 Domains of influence on cognitive development 3.3.1 Demographic characteristics 3.3.2 Family composition 3.3.3 Parenting factors 3.3.4 Experience of childcare and pre-school 3.3.5 Child health and early development 3.3.6 Parenting support 3.3.7 Maternal health and health behaviours 3.3.8 Material and economic circumstances 3.4 Summary of single domain effects 3.5 Combined domain effects 3.5.1 Summary of combined domain effects 3.5.2 Explaining the effect of education on gaps in ability

Results Subjects randomized to interpersonal psychotherapy (n = 24) and supportive psychotherapy with imipramine (n = 26) had significantly greater improvement on depressive measures than those receiving supportive psychotherapy (n = 24) or cognitive behavioral therapy (n = 27).

Despite these promising findings in terms of both the treatment and prevention of mental illness, several limitations of the cognitive training literature have been noted.22 The ultimate goal of cognitive training is to demonstrate that improvements in performing a particular task transfer to improvements in an underlying cognitive ability more generally (near transfer, ie, training on a specific executive functioning task leads to improvements in overall executive functioning ability).

Similar proportions of patients were employed (56 % vs 39 %) but the patients in the cognitive behaviour group worked more hours per week (36 vs 24).26 In another study no treatment effect of cognitive behaviour therapy as compared with natural course was found on work rehabilitation although self - rated improvement was associated with cognitive behaviour treatment.27