Sentences with phrase «for cognitive disorder»
Sweatt agrees the findings could have implications for cognitive disorders like Rett syndrome and schizophrenia.
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It is even possible that simulated foraging could have long - term effects on thinking style and possibly even lead to therapies for cognitive disorders.
Methods: Two groups, one of healthy older adults (n = 6) and one of MCI patients (n = 6) were recruited from Thessaloniki day centers for cognitive disorders and provided with a tablet PC with custom software enabling
In addition to its descending outputs, the PPN has ascending connections to the neocortex, either directly or indirectly via the thalamus, and so pathological changes in this region may be partly responsible for the cognitive disorders of aging or those observed in various neurodegenerative conditions.
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Unlike tests for emotional instability, personality disorder, or other psychiatric disorders that some armchair diagnosticians have speculated Trump may have, assessments of cognitive status are relatively objective and quantitative.
Timocco is perfect for kids with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, CP / Cerebral Palsy, or motor and cognitive disabilities.
These developmental «cut - offs» especially for sleeping arrangements have nothing to do with established empirical - based principles, or scientific findings about when infants must sleep alone or learn to «settle» themselves or risk suffering some permanent psychological or cognitive disorder or handicap.
Complementing these efforts and continuing its commitment to create memorable experiences for all families, Beaches Resorts has partnered with The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), a global leader in training and certification programs, created to meet the training needs of professionals who work with individuals with special needs and cognitive disorders.
They may be aware of the greater risk for mood disorders such as depression and anxiety associated with sleep loss; the substantial impairment in cognitive abilities such as sustained attention, short - term memory, information processing, and school performance; or the increased risk for motor vehicle accidents that accompanies lack of sleep.
Older New Yorkers with Alzheimer's and other cognitive disorders who suddenly set out for destinations unknown produce close to 400 missing persons reports a year, NYC officials say.
In partnership with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Onondaga County recently offered training to assist local health care providers in treating substance abuse disorders.
The medications excel at quelling hallucinations and delusions, yet largely fail to address schizophrenia's debilitating cognitive and social impairments, while increasing risk for movement disorders, weight gain, and other metabolic and cardiovascular side effects.
Such babies have increased rates of illness and death, but they are also at higher risk for cognitive and neurobehavioral disorders as they grow older.
If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.
«Our study shows the validity of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in important interpersonal or occupational areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.
Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.
Thus, increasing neurogenesis is a potential treatment for a variety of disorders that would benefit from improving cognitive capacity.
People with sleep apnea, for example, a condition in which people repeatedly stop breathing at night, are at risk for developing mild cognitive impairment an average of 10 years earlier than people without the sleep disorder.
The new six - year study, «Cognitive enhancement therapy for adult autism spectrum disorder: Results of an 18 - month randomized clinical trial,» involved 54 adults and was led by Shaun Eack, Ph.D., M.S.W., Pitt's David E. Epperson Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry, and Nancy Minshew, M.D., Pitt professor of psychiatry and neurology.
Although this paper confirms the crucial role of sleep in cognitive development, it also opens the way to more accurate treatment for sleep disorders in youth.
These strategies are practised in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) which is a central therapy for social anxiety disorder.
While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.
Its goal is to advance research on the neurobiological underpinnings of human emotional and cognitive processes and to contribute to the development of novel treatment options for neuropsychiatric disorders.
The victims of cerebral infarcts that lose a part of the mobility of their body undergo physiotherapy treatments, while the therapies based on the training of attention are reserved for patients with cognitive disorders such as learning or memory difficulties.
«Sleep disorders may increase cognitive problems particularly in those at risk for Alzheimer's.»
The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.
«I think ISRIB could be a therapy for many different cognitive disorders,» he says.
«One explanation for the high rate of risky opioid use among disability - entitled enrollees is the group of risk factors linked with opioid misuse including mood disorders, cognitive disability and back pain - related disorders,» Kuo said.
«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»
Dr Josephine Mollon from King's IoPPN, now with Yale University, said: «For individuals with psychotic disorders, cognitive decline does not just begin in adulthood, when individuals start to experience symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but rather many years prior — when difficulties with intellectual tasks first emerge — and worsen over time.
Instead of only using a standard clinical interview to determine whether individuals met the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the researchers combined the results from brain imaging, cognitive testing, and an array of temperament and behavior measures.
For now, the findings apply only to mice, which are an imperfect model for complex cognitive disorders such as autiFor now, the findings apply only to mice, which are an imperfect model for complex cognitive disorders such as autifor complex cognitive disorders such as autism.
A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve cognitive abilities in patients with early - stage Alzheimer's disease and reduce protein buildup blamed for the debilitating neurological disorder, researchers report in The Lancet Neurology.
Now, by dampening the activity of a small group of neurons deep within the mouse brain, researchers have produced cognitive deficits similar to those found in those with schizophrenia, a discovery that they say could potentially lead to new treatments for the disorder, which affects roughly 24 million people worldwide.
Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»
Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.
These include internet - based approaches to cognitive - behavioral therapy for depression, «telemental» health approaches enabling remote mental health visits, technology - based interventions for substance abuse and accompanying disorders, and standards for evaluating the quality of smartphone applications designed for patients with schizophrenia.
«The single - stimulus functional MRI could also open the door to developing MRI - based applications for screening of other cognitive disorders.»
Researchers at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have discovered for the first time that computerized brain training can result in improved cognitive skills in individuals with bipolar disorder.
Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress - related disorders.
«By isolating a protein that contributes to cognitive deficits in Angelman syndrome, these findings mark a step forward in not only addressing AS, but perhaps other developmental disorders as well,» said Eric Klann, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science and one of the study's co-authors.
As the use of neural implants moves toward treating cognitive disorders, one advantage of including microstimulation is the precise spatial targeting it affords, allowing for highly - controlled manipulation of neural circuits.
This may be particularly useful for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, mild cognitive impairment, or age - related memory loss.
The gray matter it contains acts as a marker for neurological disorders that can occur over time, including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.
Kathryn D. Boger, PhD, ABPP, is board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders.
«In the future, these may lead to treatments for a variety of brain disorders, including psychiatric and cognitive conditions as well as neurodegenerative diseases.»
Altered interneuron dysfunction and oscillatory rhythms in cognitive disorders: Inhibitory interneurons regulate oscillatory rhythms and network synchrony that are required for cognitive functions and disrupted in AD.
In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.
PsychoGenics works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions and not - for - profit research foundations to address such major neurological disorders as: ALS, Huntington's Disease, anxiety, cognitive impairment, depression, psychosis / schizophrenia and SMA.
In particular, common neurological conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases, age - related cognitive impairment, epilepsy, mood disorders and schizophrenia call for new therapeutic strategies.