Sentences with phrase «cognitive status of»

It is also indicated to positively influence the cognitive status of those suffering from chronic hypoperfusion.3, 4

Four issues which will be significant in the subsequent analysis of models arise here in discussing these other linguistic forms: (1) the role of analogy, (2) the relation of religious symbolism to human experience, (3) the diverse functions of religious language (especially evident in the case of myth) and (4) the cognitive status of religious language.

Not exact matches

One is by comparing Trump's cognitive status to that of other men his age and with his education.

Unlike tests for emotional instability, personality disorder, or other psychiatric disorders that some armchair diagnosticians have speculated Trump may have, assessments of cognitive status are relatively objective and quantitative.

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Such aberrations are promptly excommunicated intellectually (the psychiatrists have at hand a full - blown «syllabus of errors» for this purpose, as do language analysts and other assorted ideologists of the cognitive status quo), and the individual who refuses to recant may have to face «repressive» treatments of various degrees of severity (from losing his job to electroshock).

Consequently, this argument contributes very little either toward defending the cognitive significance of Stapp's proof or toward clarifying the status of the unknowable spin values with which the proof deals; the same can be said of his argument defending the general significance of talk about possibilities.

Once the first aid issues are addressed, then an assessment of the athlete's mental status can be made by athletic trainers, coaches, and sideline medical personnel using a brief cognitive screening tool such as the Standardized Assessment Of Concussion (SACof the athlete's mental status can be made by athletic trainers, coaches, and sideline medical personnel using a brief cognitive screening tool such as the Standardized Assessment Of Concussion (SACOf Concussion (SAC).

Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.

Of 2128 women who delivered a live infant, we excluded 45 children born at a gestational age of less than 34 weeks, 325 children who were missing breastfeeding status at age 6 months and breastfeeding duration at age 12 months, and 446 children who were missing cognitive measures at ages 3 and 7 yearOf 2128 women who delivered a live infant, we excluded 45 children born at a gestational age of less than 34 weeks, 325 children who were missing breastfeeding status at age 6 months and breastfeeding duration at age 12 months, and 446 children who were missing cognitive measures at ages 3 and 7 yearof less than 34 weeks, 325 children who were missing breastfeeding status at age 6 months and breastfeeding duration at age 12 months, and 446 children who were missing cognitive measures at ages 3 and 7 years.

Study staff administering cognitive tests were unaware of the children's breastfeeding status.

By design, that study minimized confounding by measured and unmeasured factors; however, nonblinding of clinicians assessing the cognitive outcomes to participant breastfeeding status suggests the potential for bias.

Effects of marital intelligence, marital status, income and home environment on cognitive development of low birthweight infants.

But since his election and, increasingly, his inauguration, a number of mental health experts have spoken or written about what Trump's behavior and speech suggest about his cognitive and emotional status, including impulsivity and paranoia, with some offering formal diagnoses, such as narcissistic personality disorder.

«Our results show an association of cognitive function with metabolic status,» Keskin said.

«MS study correlates negative effect of warmer weather on cognitive status.»

Other measures such as cognitive (i.e. IQ) ability, early linguistic skills, measures of the environment such as socio - economic status, and whether there is a family member with reading problems or dyslexia are all common early factors used to assess risk of developing reading difficulties.

Richard Chin, Director of the University of Edinburgh's Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, who led the study, said: «Our study indicates that children with pre-existing neurological conditions are far more likely to experience chronic neurological and cognitive problems following convulsive status epilepticus.

Other measured outcomes included quality of life, functional independence, long - term cognitive status, and overall survival.

The frequency of dementia reported in this study emphasizes that it may be helpful to routinely incorporate questions about cognitive status and functional recovery after ICH.

Kessler Foundation researchers have found that higher educational attainment (a proxy of intellectual enrichment) attenuates the negative impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on cognitive status.

«Although cognitive status was worse in the TBI group,» said Dr. Sumowski, senior research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairment.»

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

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.

This shift in survey mode likely encouraged an increase in self - interviews that in prior waves would have been completed by proxy, possibly leading to a change in the calibration of the self - and proxy - cognitive measures to dementia status.

Does the rate of decline (slope) depend on the level (intercept)(i.e. is age - related decline determined by current cognitive status)?

Qualified investigators can obtain: (1) cleaned, quality control checked sequence data, (2) information on the composition of the study cohorts (e.g. case - control, family based, and epidemiology cohorts), (3) descriptions of the study cohorts included in the analysis, and (4) accompanying phenotypic information such as age at disease onset, gender, diagnostic status, and cognitive measures.

«These disparities lead to poorer functional status, which contributes to greater likelihood of physical and cognitive decline, dependency, re-hospitalization and mortality.

Other confounding factors including demographic data, cognitive status, vitality, mood, physical performance, and use of medication (cholinesterase inhibitors, calcium channel blockers [CCBs], diuretics, alpha blockers and anticholinergic drugs) were assessed.

Examine patients to obtain information about functional status of areas such as vision, physical strength, coordination, reflexes, sensations, language skills, cognitive abilities, and mental status.

PET scans demonstrated an increase in the brain's use of glucose, an indication of increased brain activity, while mental - status tests showed a slowing of the patients» rate of cognitive decline was reduced by 36 to 51 percent.

Correlation of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes with cognitive status: a review of the literature.

While many of treatments were able to shift biomarkers in human subjects as they did animal models, they did not improve or stabilize the cognitive performance and functional status of the patients.

interventions irrespective of their ApoE4 status» — everyday regimen changes that can help prevent cognitive decline (see sidebar).

Now, researchers at the Monell Center have established a collaboration with the Brain Health Registry (BHR) to gain better insight into how changes in a person's sense of smell may relate to their health status and cognitive function.

While it's important to recognize that diet is frequently associated with other factors that may impact cognition in aging, Fargo says — such as smoking, education levels, and socioeconomic status — he does believe that there is «sufficiently strong evidence to conclude that a healthy diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline.»

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

1) Belching, bloating, or «acid reflux» after eating 2) Indigestion and constipation because food is not being digested properly 3) Skin conditions such as acne 4) Vertical ridging on the nails because of inability to absorb nutrients from food 5) Leg and foot cramps because you are not absorbing minerals 6) Chronic injuries due poor amino acid status and inability to restore tissue 7) Food allergies and asthma 8) Gallstones 9) Poor cognitive function and the onset of dementia 10) Low bone mineral density and osteoporosis

Longitudinal assessment of serum free testosterone concentration predicts memory performance and cognitive status in elderly men.

Because of the effective use of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizures (see above), it has been suggested that it may also improve the clinical status in brain injury, especially by reducing the incidence of long - term consequences, such as epilepsy.79 Positive effects of a ketogenic diet have also been reported in reducing the cortical contusion volume in an age - dependent manner in an animal model of cortical injury, which is related to the maturation - dependent variability in brain ketone metabolism.92 These findings were also supported by the demonstration that a ketogenic diet reduced post-traumatic cognitive and motor function impairment, at least in a rat model.93

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

As for why, he said the study hints that cognitive decline associated with menopause is somehow related to «the length of time a person maintains the hormonal status they have during the reproductive years.»

Cognitive control actually turned out to be astonishingly powerful as a predictor of life success — stronger than childhood IQ or even the social and economic statuses of the child's family.

An essential part of the joint statement is that it defines a quality education as one that focuses on the whole child — the social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development of each student regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or geographic location.

Sixty healthy middle - school students matched for age, gender and ethnicity but of different socioeconomic status took tests that challenged brain areas responsible for specific cognitive abilities.

by instrumenting for cognitive (noncognitive) scores with the interaction of program quality and treatment status

She is interested in virtual capital, imaginary property, immaterial labour, hybrid authorship, changes of aura, value and status of objects in cognitive capitalism.

Over the past couple of years, Canada has been cementing its status as an AI hub with the likes of Google flocking to Montreal, the Royal Bank of Canada establishing its machine learning division as part of an initial partnership with the University of Toronto and with Thomson Reuters founding a research lab in the Waterloo region and a technology centre for cognitive computing in Toronto.

The biggest thing is making sure you can qualify for life insurance with SBLI, so lets cover (in general) what SBLI will and won't insure: SBLI Underwriting Uninsurable medical scenarios with SBLI: • Aids / HIV + status • ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) • Alzheimer's disease or dementia or significant cognitive impairments related to functionality • Cancer diagnosis within last 2 years • Chronic pain treatment, severe, receiving disability, narcotic use • Cirrhosis of the Liver • Congestive heart Failure • COPD / Emphysema or chronic bronchitis - Severe or with current nicotine use • Cystic Fibrosis • Defibrillator use • Depression, severe, recurrent or with multiple in - patient hospitalization history • Diabetes with co-morbidities that include significant cardiac disease, or impairment of renal function or mobility • Heart / Cardiac Disease - multiple vessels diagnosed within 2 years or any past history with current nicotine use • Muscular Dystrophy • Multiple Sclerosis, if symptoms progressing • Organ Transplants, in most scenarios • Quadriplegia • Pulmonary hypertension • Renal failure, Renal insufficiency - severe • Stroke within 1 year • Suicide attempt within 5 years • Surgical repair of heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds $ 50K

Additional benefit riders should your health status change: With the Accelerated Death Benefit for Chronic Illness Rider, up to 50 % of the policy's death benefit ($ 500,000 maximum) can be accessed in advance if a licensed health care practitioner certifies during the prior 12 - month period that the insured is unable to perform at least two of six activities of daily living for a period of at least 90 days due to a loss of functional capacity, or has a severe cognitive impairment, requiring substantial supervision to ensure the health and safety of him or herself.