Sentences with phrase «effect on cognitive function»

Your veterinarian may also recommend adjustments to your dog's diet as well as nutritional supplements like Omega - 3, vitamin E and C, selenium, beta carotene, and L - carnitine, all known to have a positive effect on cognitive function in dogs.
Research shows that trauma has a direct effect on cognitive function, emotional health, behavior, and interpersonal capacity.
«The present findings support recent clinical trials suggesting that regular intake of cocoa flavanols may have a beneficial effect on cognitive function, and possibly protect against normal age - related cognitive decline.»
The scientists have a history of discoveries into how an individual's musical background has an effect on cognitive function and listening abilities as they get older.
In fact, studies have shown that being belittled actually does have a negative effect on cognitive function, says Porath.
«It's not a sledgehammer — it's not knocking their memory out completely — but there are demonstrable, if subtle, effects on their cognitive function
Dr Joanne Ryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research, Hospital La Colombiere, Montpellier, said: «Both premature surgical menopause and premature ovarian failure, were associated with long - term negative effects on cognitive function, which are not entirely offset by menopausal hormone treatment.
«The idea is that during evolution these variants that have positive effects on cognitive function were selected, but at a cost — in this case an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»
Transcranial magnetic stimulation / transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can induce acute and short - duration beneficial effects on cognitive function, but the therapeutic clinical significance in AD is unclear.
«But at least among people with substance use disorders, it appears to have detrimental effects on cognitive function
«Some of the benefits of coffee seem to be linked to the caffeine content, like the positive effects on cognitive function and the decreased risk for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's,» he says.
Use of creatine in the elderly and evidence for effects on cognitive function in young and old.
To reign in your sweet tooth, Chaudhary recommends the herbs ashwagandha as well as brahmi, a popular herb in India that is sold in capsule form in the U.S. Chaudhary refers to brahmi as a «brain tonic» because of its beneficial effects on cognitive function and specifically how it regulates overloaded and exhausted pleasure circuits.
Therefore, mild dehydration was produced by intermittent moderate exercise without hyperthermia and its effects on cognitive function of women were investigated.

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Just look at this list of benefits from a recent study done at the Yale - Griffin Prevention Research Center by David L. Katz, MD, and his colleagues: «Cocoa can protect nerves from injury and inflammation, protect the skin from oxidative damage from UV radiation... and have beneficial effects on satiety, cognitive function, and mood.»
In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.
The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»
In fact it was the subject of two sessions dedicated to exploring the evidence for the effects of foods and food components on mental performance and how this type of evidence can be gathered and evaluated to substantiate an EFSA approved claim on cognitive function.
The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.
Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.
Through the Institute, Dr. Janda has conducted groundbreaking research on such subjects as the use of breakaway bases in reducing sliding injuries in baseball, the role of soft - core baseballs in reducing chest impact injuries in youth baseball, reducing injuries from collisions with soccer goal, and the effect of heading on cognitive function in youth soccer players.
In so many cases that I've seen, medication, when properly assessed, properly administered, has such a profoundly important effect on a child's cognitive function, his ability to access the curriculum.
Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.
Current studies on humans show no harmful effects of supplementing infant formula with DHA and ARA and some studies even show some benefits to a child's visual function and / or cognitive and behavioral development.
However, inequalities were not widened in cognitive functioning at early school age, despite the beneficial effect of the intervention on cognition.
Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26
The study is one of few basic science studies conducted to measure the direct effect of a high - fat maternal diet on the cognitive functioning on offspring.
Dr Alan Dangour, Reader in Food and Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the first trial of the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on neurological and cognitive function in older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.
Schmid says enhancing habituation and sensory filtering in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia might have beneficial effects not only on hyper - and hyposensitivity, but also on cognitive function.
In addition to its effect on chronic tics, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can change the brain function of people with Tourette syndrome.
Researchers hypothesize that too much cortisol can have toxic effects on parts of the brain that are important for cognitive functioning, and too little might hinder the body's ability to recruit the biological resources necessary for optimal cognitive functioning
This result led Matthews to investigate whether the bacteria's effect on the brain extended to a more general difference in cognitive function — and she found that it did.
She also emphasized that cognitive training is a second option when compared to physical fitness programs, which have been linked to positive effects on cognition, brain function, and brain structure.
«With the ageing population it is important to have a better understanding of the long term effects of a premature menopause on later - life cognitive function and the potential benefit from using menopausal hormone treatment.
The proportion of adults 65 years or older with a high school diploma increased from 55 % in 1990 to 80 % in 2010, while the proportion with a college degree increased from 12 % to 23 %.12 More years of formal education is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, likely through multiple causal pathways, including a direct effect on brain development and function (ie, the building of «cognitive reserve»), health behaviors, as well as the general health advantages of having more wealth and opportunities.13 - 15
The research team included Deborah Levine, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who studies effects of aging, lifestyle and disease on different aspects of thinking ability, also called cognitive function.
Emory neuropsychologist Dan Drane, who probes the effects of epilepsy surgery on memory and language abilities, had identified Olds as a good example of how the more precise stereotactic laser ablation procedure pioneered by Gross can preserve those cognitive functions, in contrast to an open resection.
This is the first study to demonstrate that behavioral interventions can have a positive effect on brain function in people with cognitive disability caused by MS, an important step in validating the clinical utility of cognitive rehabilitation.
The underlying mechanism appears to be a systemic effect of elevated CO2 on cognitive function and decision making in marine fish.
BIIB054: Racing Under the Radar Biotech pioneer Biogen has been rather quiet about their work on their AS - targeting antibody BIIB054 — unlike their widely - heralded Aducanumab, another amyloSENS - style immunotherapy, which has generated enormous excitement for what seems to be the clearest - cut effect on both beta - amyloid and problems with cognitive function in people with Alzheimer's disease.
Freitas et al (2011) performed a systematic search of all studies using non-invasive stimulation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and reviewed all 29 identified articles; 24 focused on measures of motor cortical reactivity and (local) plasticity and functional connectivity, with 8 of these studies assessing also effects of pharmacological agents, and 5 studies focused on the enhancement of cognitive function in AD.
Further research published in the journal Neuropsychology studied the effects of being bilingual on the executive functioning of two groups of participants: 75 people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and 74 with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, a condition that sometimes progresses into Alzheimer's disease.
We propose that the touchscreen assay may be a useful test for exploring potential therapeutic effects on impaired cognitive function in this line.
The Gut Metagenome Changes in Parallel to Waist Circumference, Brain Iron Deposition and Cognitive Function JCEM June 7, 2017 Gerard Blasco, Jose Maria Moreno - Navarrete, Mireia Rivero, Vicente Perez - Brocal, Josep Garre - Olmo, Josep Puig, Pepus Daunis - i - Estadella, Carles Biarnes, Jordi Gich, Fernando Fernandez - Aranda, Angel Alberich - Bayarri, Andres Moya, Salvador Pedraza, Wifredo Ricart, Miguel Lopez, Manuel Portero - Otin, and Jose - Manuel Fernandez - Real Microbiota perturbations seem to exert modulatory effects on emotional behavior, stress - and pain - modulation systems in adult animals; however, limited information is available in humans...
In the Foundation's Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Laboratory (NNL), she investigates the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) and traumatic brain injury on cognitive function.
Other research has suggested that supplementing might slow deterioration in cognition for people with Alzheimer's disease, but more research is needed on the effects of this antioxidant on cognitive function and brain health.
«For example, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium all are typically looked at for their effects on multiple organs, and cognitive [mental] functioning will be affected most likely by a combination of these nutrients.
«In particular, chemotherapy had no clear adverse effects on postnatal growth or on cognitive or cardiac function
Some of the observed effects could be due to the relaxation response in both groups (e.g., improved depression), while the effects on cognitive and mental functioning and telomerase activity were specific to the Kirtan Kriya.»
Other guidelines to maximize the exercise effects on your brain include performing activity first thing in the morning to increase cognitive function and decrease stress for the day ahead.
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