Sentences with phrase «even behavioral studies»

But he doubts the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would support — verbally or financially — even behavioral studies.

Not exact matches

Even if it turns out that there are no useful applications of behavioral assay methods with rats, these studies should be interesting in themselves because they may tell us something about our ability to determine what it is like to be another organism.12

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.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Female Brain.

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

A new study by an MIT economist sheds more light on the quirks of people's actions in such cases and suggests that, in addition to immediate financial needs, persistent behavioral characteristics play a key role in even short - term pocketbook decisions.

With the availability of this remarkable tool, it's hard to understand why so many researchers continue to use grain - based chow diets in nutrition studies and even, as we shall see, in studies that are not necessarily nutrition - oriented, such as drug and compound efficacy studies, or behavioral studies.

Marjorie Feinson, PhD, a professor at the Falk Institute for Behavioral Health Studies in Jerusalem, has shown that negative self - talk is more detrimental in terms of disordered eating than even depression or anxiety.

A similar study in the U.K. found that children whose fathers experienced postpartum depression were roughly twice as likely as their peers to display emotional or behavioral problems (such as hyperactivity) at age 3, even when the mother's history of depression was taken into account.

«Even a simple assessment of the quality of the mother - infant interaction at such an early age captures something very important in terms of the future psychological health of that infant,» says Joanna Maselko, PhD, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical School, in Durham, N.C.

It was the inescapable conclusion that must be drawn based on the studies I was reading that behavioral and neurodegenerative disorders are not deep, dark mysterious entities that defy even a basic understanding that would lead to prevention and, possibly, resolution or amelioration of certain symptoms.

(Washington, D.C., April 18, 2013) A new study from British scientists has documented for the first time, significant new impacts to birds from outdoor cats, reporting that even brief appearances of cats near avian nest sites leads to at least a doubling in lethal nest predation of eggs and young birds by third - party animals, as well as behavioral changes in parent birds that lead to an approximately 33 percent reduction in the amount of food brought to nestlings following a predation threat.

In theory, then, a behavioral trait with a smaller heritability (closer to zero) will be more affected by environment in general (even if the exact heritability number calculated in a study can't tell us anything about the interplay of genetics and environment in an individual dog).

Since the 1940s, studies in canine behavioral genetics have consistently shown that traits such as fearfulness, impulsivity, problem - solving ability, working drive, and even tendencies toward aggression are strongly influenced by breeding.

Studies show these peptides can be responsible for many of the digestive sensitivities animals and people experience and even behavioral problems in children (maybe some pets also?).

Behavioral scientists all over the world have studied body language as a secondary, and sometimes even more revealing, means of communication.

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

Past studies have reported that maternal prepartum depressive symptoms are a consistent predictor of their children exhibiting aggression and other behavioral problems (Hay, Mundy et al., 2011; Hay, Pawlby, Waters, Perra, & Sharp, 2010), even after controlling for maternal PDS (Waters, Hay, Simmonds, & van Goozen, 2014).

Adoptive parent applicants and any adult members of the household have a duty of candor and must: give true and complete information to the home study provider; disclose any arrest, conviction, or other adverse criminal history in the U.S. or abroad, even if the record has been expunged, sealed, pardoned, or the subject of any other amelioration; and disclose other relevant information, such as physical, mental or emotional health issues or behavioral issues.

On the other hand, several studies have shown that young kids exposed to alienating behaviors, even in subtle ways, can have learning challenges, or develop physical conditions, or have worrying behavioral problems, according to the North Dakota Law Review.

Even when study is limited to family processes as influences, multivariate risk models find support.9 - 12 For example, Cummings and Davies13 presented a framework for how multiple disruptions in child and family functioning and related contexts are supported as pertinent to associations between maternal depression and early child adjustment, including problematic parenting, marital conflict, children's exposure to parental depression, and related difficulties in family processes.10, 11 A particular focus of this family process model is identifying and distinguishing specific response processes in the child (e.g., emotional insecurity; specific emotional, cognitive, behavioral or physiological responses) that, over time, account for normal development or the development of psychopathology.10

In this study, we investigated the autistic traits (even including moderate - AQ participants) of typically developing adolescents, measured with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and the spectral property of their behavioral and physiological responses during emotion - discrimination tasks.

However, absent or scarce studies have investigated the possibility behavioral effects on off spring of damsfed with HFD, even if they are feeding after weaning with a standard diet.