Although the study was not powered to detect an effect of treatment on cognition (findings to be reported separately), in a post hoc analysis, we noted that
final cognitive test scores were correlated to the rate of atrophy.
Second, when we looked for significant predictors of
the final cognitive test score, the rate of atrophy was one of the three main factors determining the final MMSE and TICS - M scores.
Not exact matches
After the
final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral
tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their
cognitive abilities or brain morphology.
The trial mainly
tested the safety of the drug in people, and so the
final word on whether aducanumab works to ameliorate the memory and
cognitive losses associated with Alzheimer's will have to wait until the completion of two larger phase III trials.
Proposed federal rules about how to
test students with the most significant
cognitive disabilities and include those results in ratings of schools are still not
final, eight months after the Department of Education released a draft version.
In fact, the
cognitive psychology term «
testing effect» was coined several decades ago to refer to the finding that taking practice
tests on studied material promotes greater subsequent learning and retention on a
final test as compared to relying on more common study strategies.