Sentences with phrase «first behavioral study»

«Rare octopus shocks scientists with unusual mating and reproductive strategies: Scientists publish first behavioral study of little - known cephalopod, validating long - dismissed observations.»

Their paper, which was published in the scientific journal BMC Ecology, is the first behavioral study worldwide showing the interaction of two invasive species in the context of the decline of native species.

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Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky first introduced this concept more than 30 years ago in a study that built the foundation for what would become the field of behavioral finance.

A 2017 study in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics is one of the first of its kind to look specifically at the effects that co-sleeping can have on a mother's mental health.

James McKenna, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Oregon) Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology, pioneered the first behavioral and electro - physiological studies documenting differences between mothers and infants sleeping together and apart.

At the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Neurology his research team pioneered the first studies of the physiology and behavior of mothers and infant sleeping together and apart, using physiological and behavioral recording devices.

«Our study is one of the first to locate possible damage of bipolar disorder in specific subfields within the hippocampus,» said Bo Cao, Ph.D., first and corresponding author and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

The radiation - sensitive rats that received higher doses of radiation had a higher concentration of transporters for the neurotransmitter dopamine, which plays a role in vigilance and attention, says Catherine M. Davis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the study's first author.

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.

The study provides the first data on the behavioral impacts of sedation and disentanglement and the energetic cost of entanglement in fishing gear due to drag.

«This is a landmark study because it moves the field beyond a simple association, and towards evidence that changes in the microbiota impact both intestinal and behavioral responses in IBS,» said Giada De Palma, the study's first author and research associate with the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute.

«The fact that we measured blood and CSF at the same time shows for the first time that there's a tight relationship between oxytocin levels in those two compartments [blood and CSF] and anxiety,» said the study's lead author, Dean Carson, PhD, postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

The study «is the first to investigate responses to distress by Asian elephants,» which «is inherently difficult to assess because one has to wait for opportunities to arise spontaneously,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist at the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka.

«It's the first really convincing evidence to come in the 120 years since people started to debate this issue,» says Tim Caro, a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

Those who developed dementia during the study were more likely to have mood and behavioral changes first.

«We believe that behavioral activation is a good first step in treatment, and this article addresses that point,» says Weill Cornell Medical College geriatric psychiatrist George Alexopoulos, who was not involved in the study.

«This is some of the first evidence in a mouse model of autism of a «female protective effect,» from the behavioral to the molecular level,» says Nicola Grissom, first author of the study who is now an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota.

Kato has spent 15 years designing games, but initially trained as a psychologist, first at Harvard and then at Stanford, while Bender studied health and behavioral sciences at the University of Toronto.

However, she said, further studies would be required to confirm the findings and to account for behavioral differences between populations such as smoking, birth control use, and age at first sexual activity.

The study is the first to establish a close link between epigenetic modifications on a cancer gene and the risk of developing the disease, says Robert Philibert, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

«Ours is the first experimental investigation of the relationship between expectation disconfirmation and behavioral intentions in the context of personal risk perceptions, and the first study to examine the process by which intentions might rise or fall in response to unexpected risk feedback.»

«This is the first study to examine olfactory systems in adult mice with regard to the potential to reverse the behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of emotional learning using extinction,» said Morrison.

First, the lab is studying the molecular and behavioral correlates of depressive - like states that accompany withdrawal from drugs of abuse in male and female rats.

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.

Psychological stress and glucorticoids have been shown to increase FOXO3 in animal studies, 36, 37, 38 whereas low levels of FOXO3 in mice actually prevent the behavioral stress response in mice, serving an antidepressant effect.39 We believe our study is the first documentation that a stress reduction intervention can reduce FOXO3 expression.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper regarding new technologies and the evolution of experimental methods in the first two years of the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL - BRS).

BRS - 07 Final Cruise Report This is the final cruise report of the first behavioral response study to be carried out on beaked and pilot whales in which these animals were exposed to carefully measured doses of underwater sound while their responses were being measured.

First, behavioral tests like the water maze are extremely useful for studying the molecular biology of learning and memory.

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that has shown that clinically assessed positive emotions are protective of a first heart attack,» says the study's lead author, Karina W. Davidson, PhD, the director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City.

Schauss, AG, New findings on nutrition and its application in the behavioral sciences, Controlled hair mineral analysis study of violent and sociopathic prisoners, presentation, First International Conference on Nutritional Therapy in Medicine, 6/26/1983.

It's different from many other addictive drugs, for which most people say they enjoy the first experience and would try it again,» said study author Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Shep's groundbreaking longitudinal study of African American children growing up in the Woodlawn area of Chicago was among the first community studies to identify risk factors for negative health and behavioral outcomes in an urban, minority population.

UF researchers will study the effectiveness of a promising curriculum to help thousands of kindergarten and first grade students at risk for emotional and behavioral problems.

Shellenbarger cites a study of 10,700 parents and teachers of first graders that suggests that when teachers are stressed, students have more behavioral and

was Cristin's first dog to display major behavioral issues like resource guarding, anxiety, and aggression, so she began studying training methods, expanding her knowledge base from agility training to behavioral training.

Sanctioning is one of the first steps toward being approved to hold AKC dog shows and obedience trials, a long - range goal of the club.Sproul and other club officers say they are making a determined effort to continue the programs that Seminole has initiated.The Seminole club has initiated such programs as annual purebred dog exhibitions demonstrating important aspects of owning, raising and training dogs; health seminars that bring in experts to discuss topics that have included hereditary eye defects, skin disorders and behavioral studies; and matches offering ring conditions to provide experience for handlers and dogs.

The BRC is the first and only permanent facility dedicated strictly to the study and behavioral rehabilitation of extremely fearful, undersocialized dogs, most victims of cruelty or neglect.

With respect to animal behavior, applied behavioral genetics was first studied several thousand years ago because animals were bred and selected for their behavior as much as their conformation.

(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.

Dr. Miklosi is the Director of the Family Dog Research Project the first research group to study the behavioral and cognitive aspects of the dog - human relationship.

The first - of - its - kind study mixed brain - imaging data from canines with a series of behavioral experiments, and came to the conclusion that dogs really do value the relationships they have with their owners.

Based on the study's results, here are the percentage of dogs in the study that developed the specific behavioral problem for each group - the first number respresents those dogs that were separated from their owners early, the second number those that were separated later.

First, for an impressive descriptive study of judicial disqualification appeals from 1980 to 2007, see Sande L. Buhai, Federal Judicial Disqualification: A Behavioral and Quantitative Analysis, 90 Or.

The first is a phone interview to prescreen candidates for the technical, behavioral, and case study interviews that follow.

A Predictive Index test follows, and the two final stages are a behavioral and case study interviews, the first to evaluate interpersonal skills and the latter for problem - solving evaluation and leadership skills.

To our knowledge, this study is the first to evaluate a culturally tailored parenting support program for Somali - born parents to reduce children's emotional and behavioral problems.

During the first year of the study, the children with divorced parents exhibited more behavioral and emotional problems than did the children with continuously married parents.

First, the few studies that have followed participants beyond the immediate intervention period (6 months or less) have noted a decay of intervention effect on behavior over time, 5,6 prompting members of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel: Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk Behavior to identify sustainability of program effectiveness as 1 of the most important questions that professionals who are concerned with risk prevention face.7 A challenge for behavioral change interventions in general, this issue is particularly vexing for interventions that target decreased involvement in sex and substance use with advancing age during adolescence.8, 9 Second, multiple behaviors (sex without a condom, sex with multiple partners, substance use before sex, etc) directly and indirectly place individuals at risk for acquisition of HIV.

Adding functional behavioral assessment to first step to success: A case study.