Sentences with phrase «cognitive research involves»

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«This is a nice study that adds to the body of literature trying to figure out exactly the conditions under which bilingualism improves cognitive function,» said Dr. Ellen Bialystok, a professor and bilingualism expert at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in this research.

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

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

Kable adds that this research may require us to shift how we think about encouraging people to make more forward - looking choices, because self - control involves «not just inhibiting temptations but actually having the cognitive wherewithal to evaluate the future.»

Research that advances our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in reading will improve the rehabilitative care of individuals with left - sided stroke, and benefit other populations with acquired reading impairments.»

Here she shows her research coordinator Mayra a new software program that involves cognitive training.

The latest work paints a picture of LSD and some other hallucinogens as drugs that can decrease modularity and connectivity within brain networks while enhancing the brain's overall connectivity, explains Frederick Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who has studied hallucinogenic drug effects but was not involved in the research released this week.

«It's really impressive to work with children this young, who are not often looked at,» says Aniruddh Patel, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who was not involved with the research.

Earlier this year, the research team reported that in more intelligent persons two brain regions involved in the cognitive processing of task - relevant information (i.e., the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex) are connected more efficiently to the rest of the brain (2017, Intelligence).

The study involved 25 research institutions and 1726 alcoholics who were randomly assigned to 12 weekly sessions of one of three types of individual psychotherapy: cognitive - behavioral therapy (which seeks to teach new ways of thinking), motivational therapy (in which the patient is encouraged to take responsibility for his own recovery), and a spiritually oriented therapy derived from the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

Little research has been done, however, on the relationship between the cognitive processes involved in deficits in prospective memory and retrospective memory in individuals living with TBI.

Stacia Friedman - Hill, Ph.D., a program director at NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, says these findings are particularly relevant to the field of mental health research because many mental health disorders are marked by changes in cognitive function, sometimes years before clinical symptoms become significant, and because mental health disorders often involve changes in the developing brain.

Our work mainly involves research and clinical groups of Normandie developing programs in patients and animal models, to improve our understanding of the impact of cancer and its treatments on cognitive functions.

The research has many caveats for humans eager to utilize diet to improve their odds of maintaining cognitive ability — it involved a single strain and sex of mice living in an environment where it's easy to control every aspect of the diet.

His research demonstrated that learning cognitive actions, such as playing chess or doing math, could involve the same neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms involved in learning motor actions.

What's more, says Bredesen, studies he's involved in through the UCLA Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research and the Buck Institute suggest cognitive decline can be reversed.

With her first research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dr. Genova is studying cognitive fatigue in individuals with MS. With cognitive fatigue, individuals tire easily when performing tasks that involve thinking and learning, which can adversely affect their ability to work and perform the usual activities of daily life.

«Given past research on texting while driving and mentally demanding tasks, I can see how «texting while parenting» would lead to some cognitive and emotional conflict,» said Bayer, who wasn't involved in the new study.

«There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of later developing dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of dementia tomorrow,» says Grodstein, who was not involved in the research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

Both of these are being researched for their possible role in reducing the risk of heart disease and cancer and for supporting cognitive function and memory, and they are already known to be involved in supporting healthy vision and collagen production.

In positioning fermented foods as worthy of discussion for cognitive and mental benefits, recent comparative research involving fermented and non-fermented foods and herbal ingredients is worthy of consideration.

Her research interests involve understanding the social, cognitive, and affective factors related to math learning and achievement with a specific interest in individual differences related to gender and income level.

The dogs who are involved in medical research help us understand and treat a variety of cancers, cardiovascular, metabolic, joint, skeletal, muscular, neurologic, and even cognitive disorders.

She has also been actively involved in researching cognitive bias in arbitral decision - making based on Soia Mentschikoff's 1950s - 1960s experiment.

Neurolaw and Criminal Justice Ken Strutin's article highlights selected recent publications, news sources and other online materials concerning the applications of cognitive research to criminal law as well as basic information on the science and technology involved.

A substantial body of research shows that children with involved fathers fare better across nearly every measure of child wellbeing, from cognitive development and educational achievement to self - esteem and pro-social behavior.

Research shows that high - quality father involvement and support are associated with a number of positive child outcomes, including decreased delinquency and behavioral problems, improved cognitive development, increased educational attainment, and better psychological wellbeing.8 Children with involved fathers, on average, perform better in school, have higher self - esteem, and exhibit greater empathy, emotional security, curiosity, and pro-social behavior.

Four studies were excluded because assignment to treatment was not random, 16 — 19 one because it was an interim analysis of an ongoing study, 20 and 11 because they involved children with depressive symptoms and not depressive disorder.21 — 31 This left six randomised trials of cognitive behaviour therapy for depressive disorder in young people.32 — 37 Two of the trials were conducted by the same research group 32 34 but it was clear from the trial descriptions that they were based on different samples.

Early behavioural research pointed to the negative impact of «coercive» parenting practices in escalating negative child behaviours (Patterson 1989), and more recent research has shown that positive, proactive parenting (involving praise, encouragement and affection) is strongly associated with high child self - esteem, cognitive ability and social and academic competence, and is protective against later disruptive behaviour and substance misuse (Kumpfer 2004; Byford 2012).

[30] There is now an expanding research field examining how such conditions may bias cognitive processes involved in social interaction, or conversely, how such biases may lead to the symptoms associated with the condition.

For many years, this research involved the exploration of cognitive approaches to understanding and treating major depression, and he was one of the pioneers of cognitive therapy research in the United Kingdom.