Sentences with phrase «environmental stimulation»

* Provide environmental stimulation with toys and climbing areas.

These pets must be taken out their cages daily and handled to socialize them and to provide environmental stimulation.

This dog needs to be given a lot more environmental stimulation, such as games, and feeding puzzle toys.

Created an atmosphere specific for children to thrive through social, tactile and different environmental stimulation.

The symptoms that children with Complex Trauma exhibit to regain control of environmental stimulation may be misinterpreted as oppositional defiant behaviors or hyperactivity, and therefore mistakenly treated with ineffective behavioral management techniques or medication.

Tanks specifically designed for sensory deprivation or floating were created in the 1950s but gained popularity in the 1970s when it became known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (or REST).

After using the tank himself, he found this to be the case, but flotation only entered the public consciousness on a larger scale in the late 1970s, when two scientists expanded on Lilly's ideas to create Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST).

Dogs that are constantly cooped - up indoors need environmental stimulation to remain physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy, so taking them for walks provides them with similar stress relief.

When the researchers administered drugs called histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACs)-- which promote acetylation — to mice, they had the same effect as environmental stimulation.

«Studies in rats have shown that the effects of lead exposure can be attenuated by environmental stimulation,» Lanphear says.

Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioral deficits, but the deficits were largely reversible through environmental stimulation and physical exercise.

To support the student with surrounding environmental stimulation and negative reactions to touch, the teacher offers a weighted accessory (e.g., lap weight, weighted blanket) as an accommodation to provide firm pressure and support sensory integration while the student continues the writing task.

Toys In addition to a cat's basic needs, don't forget environmental stimulation!

Puppy training techniques begin to fail, environmental stimulation causes sensory overload and many dogs become hyperactive or reactive to other dogs and people.

As a result, indoor house cats may receive limited environmental stimulation that may cause several behavior problems such as hyperactivity, apathy, destructive chewing, excessive grooming, attention - seeking behavior, compulsive disorders and aggression.

Infancy is frequently identified as a sensitive period in which environmental stimulation has the potential to substantially influence children's cognitive and language development.

«They perform their duties in stressful environments where there are often suddenly and randomly varying levels of environmental stimulation, disrupted sleep cycles and a constant need to stay alert and vigilant.

Unfortunately, many people get these animals as pets and don't realize that in addition to good food, a safe cage, and clean bedding, these pets — just like cats and dogs — need environmental stimulation to be happy and to thrive.

Simply depriving rodents of toys and other forms of environmental stimulation, for example, can cause dendrites and their spines to shrivel up, he says.

His research is concentrated on the adult central nervous system and unexpected plasticity and adaptability to environmental stimulation that remains throughout the life of all mammals.

I ask because I have always been very sensitive to stimulants, can't have any caffeine, herbal treatments often give me bad jitters, can't have epinephrine, sensitive to all meds with possible stimulant effect, sensitive to environmental stimulation, history of panic disorder (in past before hypo symptoms started).

Puppy mill dogs are typically kept in small cement and wire cages with virtually zero environmental stimulation.

It is always a great strategy to provide your cat with environmental stimulation.

The environmental stimulation impacts your puppy's rate of mental development during this time.

Substandard conditions include lack of veterinarian care or breeding plan, unlimited puppy production, no screening for genetic diseases, unsanitary facilities, unsafe and cramped cages, no environmental stimulation or human contact with animals, inadequate ventilation and temperature, poor quality food and water, poor quality shelters and no bedding.

Environmental stimulation is vital in ensuring mental and physical well - being of your ferret.

That means giving consideration to where they live, their social interactions, and environmental stimulation.

Our hypotheses were motivated by the widespread environmental inequities (both physical and psychological) faced by children living in poverty along with increasing evidence that environmental stimulation, parental nurturance, and early life stress affect brain growth and functioning.