Sentences with phrase «cognitive improvements in»

Some experts recommend only fresh, living food, but tests have shown that some manufactured diets designed specifically to enhance brain functioning have made significant cognitive improvements in dogs suffering from CDS.

This led to cognitive improvement in our animal models.»

Now, we have not only deepened our understanding of these processes, but we have also managed to show that it is possible to cause a cognitive improvement in an Alzheimer's model.

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And so it's very hard to tease out whether improvements in some of these studies were due to cognitive training.

Research shows naps lead to improvement in cognitive function, creative thinking, and memory performance.

Studies of napping have shown improvement in cognitive function, creative thinking and memory performance.

«Why raise the cost of the formula significantly if the clinical studies show no improvement in cognitive and visual development?»

These toys smoothly integrate the improvement of motor, cognitive and / or sensory competence in a fun - looking and interesting gadget.

Students enrolled in NutriBullet University have seen a variety of health improvements such as a decrease in total cholesterol levels, improved cognitive function and a decreased risk for lifestyle diseases.

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.

Finally, neurodevelopmental research has suggested that the factors in breast milk that may be responsible for the improved cognitive abilities of breastfed children may involve long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and, particularly, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), 10 with some clinical studies in which infant formula was supplemented with DHA suggesting possible improvements in visual acuity and cognitive ability in preterm infants given the DHA - supplemented formula.13

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.

Over the last 2 decades, there has been an accumulation of evidence suggesting that breastfeeding may lead to small but detectable improvements in childhood cognitive ability or educational achievement.

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 liveIn 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 livein breastfeeding rates could save millions of pounds and, in the case of SIDS, children's livein the case of SIDS, children's lives.

Another explanation could be that associations between breastfeeding and improved mother - child relations may, at least in part, reflect improvements in child cognitive functioning and / or physical health associated with breastfeeding.

However, research has shown that a 1 - hour nap has many more restorative effects than a 30 - minute nap, including a much greater improvement in cognitive functioning.

Earlier trials showed that the games could improve multi-tasking using the game in healthy 70, 80, and 90 - year - olds, Gazzaley said, and that the games created other cognitive improvements.

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.

«We've known for a long time that DHA is associated with improvements in visual, cognitive and behavioral development in early life, but these results suggest that DHA may also have a role in promoting a leaner, healthier growth outcome for children.

«In the future, we aim to identify a correlation between arousal status and memory acquisition and the detailed mechanism underlying this cognitive improvement.

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.

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Cohen Kadosh speculates that the maths improvements are, in part, the result of more efficient cognitive processing.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the extent to which improvements in living conditions and educational opportunities over a person's life affect cognitive abilities and their implications for men and women.

Students of teachers using Cognitive Tutor, a computer - based curriculum for Algebra I students developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, for a second year showed a meaningful improvement in test scores.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

The researchers measured significant improvements in children's cognitive skills after the intervention.

Those treated with EST showed a marked increase in social - cognitive behaviors, but it took nearly nine months longer for such benefits to emerge compared to adults treated with CET, suggesting that the more intensive training offered in that approach may help speed improvement.

When the researchers evaluated the estrogen treated groups separately versus no treatment, they found significantly greater improvement in certain cognitive tests only in the group that received transdermal estrogen.

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

«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.

«Computerized cognitive training is a more feasible, portable and efficient intervention than we've had in the past and is likely to result in meaningful improvement in the cognitive problems survivors experience,» she said.

The researchers found that children who received music lessons had significant cognitive improvements compared to all other children in the study.

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 counselinIn 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 counselinin 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 counselinin 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.

He found two types of games that lead to substantial improvements in specific cognitive skills: first person shooter games and spatial puzzle games (such as Tetris).

Those who played Lumosity did show improvements in some cognitive skills, such as attention and focus, but so did those who played the other computer games, and the people who played no games at all.

In a previous study of civilians with insomnia, Taylor and his research team discovered that cognitive behavioral therapy led to significant improvements in sleep efficiency, with the research subjects» use of sleep medication declining from 87.5 percent before therapy to 54 percent afterward, although the subjects weren't required to stop taking their medicatioIn a previous study of civilians with insomnia, Taylor and his research team discovered that cognitive behavioral therapy led to significant improvements in sleep efficiency, with the research subjects» use of sleep medication declining from 87.5 percent before therapy to 54 percent afterward, although the subjects weren't required to stop taking their medicatioin sleep efficiency, with the research subjects» use of sleep medication declining from 87.5 percent before therapy to 54 percent afterward, although the subjects weren't required to stop taking their medication.

In both groups, the hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions led to significant improvements in tests of cognitive function and quality of lifIn both groups, the hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions led to significant improvements in tests of cognitive function and quality of lifin tests of cognitive function and quality of life.

While improvement was noted across a range of specific cognitive measures in the active group, there were no improvements measured in activities of daily living.

Greater improvements in gambling symptoms and reduced days gambled when GA / / was combined with cognitive behavioural therapy.

Taylor discovered that the study participants who received in - person cognitive behavioral treatment for their insomnia reported significantly greater improvements in sleep quality — as determined by the sleep diaries and activity monitors — than those who received the Internet therapy.

The results, published Jan. 3 in the journal Depression and Anxiety, showed that the group using Project: EVO demonstrated specific cognitive benefits (such as attention) compared to the behavioral therapy, and saw similar improvements in mood and self - reported function.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

Abstract: Sustained long - term improvement in clinical and cognitive outcomes after fecal microbiota transplantation in cirrhosis (3161)

A single treatment using an optimized, targeted form of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) produces sustained clinical and cognitive improvements, according to the results of a long - term follow - up of patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy (HE) who had participated in a short - term study.

«Although this was a small randomized trial, we believe it confirms that FMT from a rationally selected donor was safe and associated with substantial long - term improvements in both clinical and cognitive outcomes in patients with cirrhosis and recurrent HE», said Dr Bajaj.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

The FMT arm also demonstrated sustained and significant improvements in cognitive function at 1 year compared with both baseline and SOC.