Sentences with phrase «cognitive outcomes in»

Improved cognitive outcomes in vulnerable children have been demonstrated in those exposed to the Abecedarian Approach across the first four years of life compared with their control peers.

From Chetty et al.'s research, we have estimates of the relationship between cognitive outcomes in kindergarten, measured as percentile test score gains, and dollar gains in adult earnings.

Ketones are the brain's main alternative fuel to glucose and brain ketone uptake is still normal in MCI and in early AD, which would help explain why ketogenic interventions improve some cognitive outcomes in MCI and AD.

(iv) Interventions that raise ketone availability to the brain improve cognitive outcomes in both MCI and AD as well as in acute experimental hypoglycemia.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

Although the omega - 3 diet did not improve cognitive outcomes in the mice, the researchers expect their model will be useful for studying alternative lifestyle interventions to ameliorate the chemobrain phenomenon.

«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.

«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.

Regional Brain Volume Abnormalities are Associated with Long - Term Cognitive Outcome in Preterm Infants.

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New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Whatever their differences, they are not bewitched by modern uniqueness: they hold that the basic processes of the linguistic, social and cognitive construction of reality and experience are much the same in all times and places, however varied the outcomes.

Program: the feeling and the cognitive side of life are sterile until they find an outcome in action.

This is true of developmental as well as cross-cultural psychology, in that the basic research strategy is to search for the influence of broad classes of experience (e.g., culture, SES, age, gender) that influence broad classes of individual outcome (e.g., IQ, personality, cognitive level).

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

The pervasive associations found between breastfeeding and measures of cognitive ability and academic achievement were, in part, explained by the fact that the outcomes described in Table 1 were all significantly correlated.

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Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

In pregnancy, greater maternal fish intake (particularly fish low in mercury contamination) is associated with better childhood cognitive outcomes, 7 but the extent to which maternal fish intake during lactation accounts for the relationship between breastfeeding and cognition has not been reporteIn pregnancy, greater maternal fish intake (particularly fish low in mercury contamination) is associated with better childhood cognitive outcomes, 7 but the extent to which maternal fish intake during lactation accounts for the relationship between breastfeeding and cognition has not been reportein mercury contamination) is associated with better childhood cognitive outcomes, 7 but the extent to which maternal fish intake during lactation accounts for the relationship between breastfeeding and cognition has not been reported.

Many epidemiologic studies consistently show that breastfeeding not only provides optimal bio-avaiable nutrients, but also protects against diarrhoeal, respiratory and other diseases [11][12][13][14], including the non-communicable disease of obesity in later life [15][16][17] and leads to improved cognitive and psychosocial outcomes [18][19][20].

To examine whether the effects of breastfeeding varied for boys and girls, the analyses were extended to include tests of interactions between gender and measures of breastfeeding in their effects on cognitive and educational outcomes.

Nonetheless, in 10 of the 12 models, fitted duration of breastfeeding remained a significant predictor of later cognitive or educational outcomes.

Fathers» involvement in parenting is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and socio - behavioural child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement [33].

This is in spite of the wealth of evidence that poverty can devastate children's life chances by damaging their cognitive, emotional and social development, physical and mental health, and educational outcomes.

«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.

The study has sparked interest in what its authors call «cognitive epidemiology,» the study of associations between mental ability tests and health outcomes.

«Outcomes that are novel, or eye - catching are generally seen as more attractive and competitive than those that are null or ambiguous,» putting researchers under much career pressure to produce attractive results, says Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who became one of the founders of the Registered Reports concept a couple of years ago, in the Royal Society's announcement.

To be included in the review, studies had to measure psychosocial, physical and / or cognitive outcomes associated with formal volunteering — such as happiness, physical health, depression, cognitive functioning, feelings of social support and life satisfaction.

Continued investigation of this research may have strong implications for policy makers, public health professionals and school administrators to consider simple and sustainable environmental changes in classrooms that can effectively increase energy expenditure and physical activity as well as enhance cognitive development and education outcomes.

«In summary, these findings suggest there may be a tradeoff between physical and cognitive outcomes associated with late - term gestation.

While late - term gestation was associated with an increase in the rate of abnormal conditions at birth and with worse physical outcomes during childhood, it was also associated with better performance on all three measures of school - based cognitive functioning measures during childhood,» the study concludes.

Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three cognitive dimensions (higher average test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor cognitive outcomes) compared to full - term infants.

While the treatment did have some favorable effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit compared with placebo.

«We saw a clear distinction: non-elective admissions drive the association between hospitalization and long - term changes in cognitive function in later life, while elective admissions do not necessarily carry the same risk of negative cognitive outcomes,» James said.

Shorter telomeres are linked to higher risks for heart disease, obesity, cognitive decline, diabetes, mental illness and poor health outcomes in adulthood.

«We argue that across your lifespan, you go from «broad learning» (learning many skills as an infant or child) to «specialized learning,» (becoming an expert in a specific area) when you begin working, and that leads to cognitive decline initially in some unfamiliar situations, and eventually in both familiar and unfamiliar situations,» Wu said.In the paper, Wu argues that if we reimagine cognitive aging as a developmental outcome, it opens the door for new tactics that could dramatically improve the cognitive health and quality of life for aging adults.

«Further studies are needed to assess which collective therapies should be utilized in the most vulnerable patients with severe sepsis to prevent cognitive and physical disability and predict which early interventions will impact outcome.»

The findings can inform preventive interventions, especially those that can reduce family stress and strengthen parent - child relationships, because these may promote healthy cortisol levels in children and, in turn, may result in positive cognitive outcomes.

The Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression (COBRA) trial, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was designed to meet this need.

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

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.

«Fecal microbiota transplantation produces sustained improvements in cognitive and clinical outcomes.»

«The risk of cognitive impairment should be considered when deciding whether or not to receive androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer,» said Brian Gonzalez, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Health Outcomes and Behavior Program at Moffitt.

Watts said easy - to - walk communities resulted in better outcomes both for physical health — such as lower body mass and blood pressure — and cognition (such as better memory) in the 25 people with mild Alzheimer's disease and 39 older adults without cognitive impairment she tracked.

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 12, 2016, the study's findings suggest patients» illness severity, functional abilities, cognitive status and neuropsychological well - being are not associated with caregiver outcomes.

The article, «The relationship between outcome prediction and cognitive fatigue: a convergence of paradigms,» (doi: 10.3758 / s13415 -017-0515-y) was epublished ahead of print on May 25, 2017, in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neurcognitive fatigue: a convergence of paradigms,» (doi: 10.3758 / s13415 -017-0515-y) was epublished ahead of print on May 25, 2017, in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral NeurCognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

Cognitive outcomes were assessed in the six patients who completed the NGF delivery procedure safely.

Thayer set out to understand why people aren't always rational when making economic decisions and to design a model in which market outcomes consider human fallibility and cognitive biases.

«We, and others, have shown healthy lifestyles and good cardiovascular health to be important for cognitive outcomes,» says lead author Archana Singh - Manoux, Ph.D., research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), in Paris.