Sentences with phrase «from better cognitive»

Coffee has many health benefits ranging from better cognitive function to helping men decrease their chances of getting prostate cancer.

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Rather, it stems from a complex interplay of untenable financial pressures on some households, coupled with widespread cognitive and behavioural shortcomings that lead well - intentioned people to make profoundly bad decisions.

Bad weather boosted productivity, the authors speculate, because it reduced the potential for cognitive distractions resulting from good weather.

Gurney is among a growing number of financial educators, investment advisers, brokers and wealth advisers who use lessons gleaned from psychology, cognitive theory and even neuroscience to find better ways to help their clients.

Here are three cognitive biases from behavioral finance that investors would do well to be aware of to avoid making poor investment decisions.

Novices to a group are well - advised to begin their acculturation by attempting to emulate its veteran practitioners, to learn its ways, its affective, effective, and cognitive dimensions, from the inside, in emic mode, by empathy.

Lois Malcolm takes up her seminary's rethinking of its role in terms of an «apostolate,» distinct from the confessionalist «abbey» and cognitive «academy» models, exploring how the best of the latter two can be brought together in an institution that is also aware of its social context and oriented toward mission.

The other day I received an email from a neuropsychologist at a well - known New England medical center (I'll call him «Dr.. A» for short) wondering whether there was any evidence to support the recommendation made in a number of articles in our concussion center, as well as videos, that, as part of the cognitive rest a concussed student - athlete needs during concussion recovery, he or she should not play video games:

Authors John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman teach couples the skills needed to maintain healthy marriages, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood by: • Focusing on intimacy and romance • Replacing an atmosphere of criticism and irritability with one of appreciation • Preventing postpartum depression • Creating a home environment that nurtures physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as cognitive and behavioral development for your baby Complete with exercises that separate the «master» from the «disaster» couples, this book helps new parents positively manage the strain that comes along with their bundle of joy.

Here a good example of a solid critique by Daniel Willingham, renowned cognitive psychologist from UVA:

Lack of sleep in children has also been associated with health problems ranging from obesity to mood swings, as well as cognitive problems that can have an impact on a child's ability to concentrate, pay attention, and learn in school.

From 0 - 3 months of age baby is developing in so many ways, and the best ways to aid their cognitive development is to let them explore and listen to the world around them.

There is ample justification for the value of breastfeeding from studies of the nutritional and cognitive advantages associated with breastfeeding, as well as the psychosocial benefits.

As they transition from babies to toddlers, children also experience a tremendous amount of cognitive and social development, as well as major leaps in language abilities and motor skills.

The problem with the second bullet point is that it's a good idea in theory but not usable in practice for two different reasons: (1) various cognitive biases would counteract your education from working when populist politically aligns with someone; (2) and conscious tactical choices would ensure that even those who are able to work around cognitive biases would still vote for that populist if they are aligned.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

«This is really good evidence for an intentional role for humans in the accumulation of bodies at the bottom of this pit and suggests the hominins from this time period were already engaging in complex cognitive behaviors,» said Quam.

Lead researcher Prof Anne - Marie Minihane, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «The long chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid EPA is beneficial for cardiovascular and cognitive health, as well as for foetal development in pregnancy.

Although the physical basis of consciousness is one of the deepest enigmas in biology, the best guess is that it arises from coordinated activity between the cortex and the thalamus, a switching station for sensory and motor signals, and within the cortex, which handles higher - order cognitive functions.

The well - known short - term effects of THC, which include cognitive and motor impairments, don't seem to impart any long - term damage to adult brains, said Igor Grant from the University of California, San Diego.

- CER researchers come from a range of professional disciplines including clinical medicine, epidemiology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, health services research, economics, methods research, decision and cognitive sciences, genomics, proteomics, library science, communications, as well as other areas.

General intelligence is usually defined as the ability to do well on multiple cognitive tasks, from math skills to problem solving.

And when the squirrels got all their nuts from a central location, they spatially chunked them: «So they would actually cache nuts that were the same species in distinct areas from nuts of a different species... so the take home message I think for me is really that just like physical traits have evolved, I believe that cognitive traits have evolved as well.

He compared brain scans, as well as fluid from the brain and spine, from three groups: people without Alzheimer's disease, people with mild cognitive impairment or memory problems who may have Alzheimer's disease, and people with full - blown Alzheimer's disease.

Cognitive dissonance is a better descriptor for an internal state, although we should remember that all such descriptions are inferences from behavior, language, brain scans, and so on, not direct observations of someone else's mind.

We need to gain a better understanding of who can benefit from rehabilitation, and how soon it should be started — should we just do cognitive rehabilitation, or also motor balance and vestibular training?

«Most students have disappeared at the level of the master or Ph.D. thesis, and the ones that survived are as good as those from other educational directions,» says Emanuel Dupoux, a researcher in cognitive and brain science at the ENS.

Out of all the children, boys, children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in infancy, had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.

Domestic dogs, who are descended from cooperatively breeding wolves, and elephants also perform better on socio - cognitive tasks, such as imitation, compared to other animals of similar brain size.

This cognitive function deficit impacts areas of a survivor's life ranging from societal integration to their return to work, as well as a decline in memory, learning, attention and concentration.

And the unsupported assumption that antidepressants are more effective than cognitive - behavior therapy for the long - term treatment of depression can dissuade individuals from seeking the most beneficial interventions for their illness [see «The Best Medicine?»

Better - educated people appear to be significantly more likely to recover from a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), suggesting that a brain's «cognitive reserve» may play a role in helping people get back to their previous lives, new Johns Hopkins research shows.

«This research shows that it is possible to promote psychological well - being in middle childhood through an integrated school - based intervention programme informed by concepts of positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy,» said first author Dr Michael Pluess from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, who led the research while previously based at University of East London.

Lead researcher Prof Anne - Marie Minihane, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «The long chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids EPA and DHA are beneficial for cardiovascular and cognitive health, as well as for foetal development in pregnancy.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

«With the ageing population it is important to have a better understanding of the long term effects of a premature menopause on later - life cognitive function and the potential benefit from using menopausal hormone treatment.

The proportion of adults 65 years or older with a high school diploma increased from 55 % in 1990 to 80 % in 2010, while the proportion with a college degree increased from 12 % to 23 %.12 More years of formal education is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, likely through multiple causal pathways, including a direct effect on brain development and function (ie, the building of «cognitive reserve»), health behaviors, as well as the general health advantages of having more wealth and opportunities.13 - 15

These profiles are examined with respect to how well they «fit» various disorders; test results are compared with large normative databases derived from similar individuals without cognitive disorders.

Mothers must also remember that antidepressant medicines are only one part of getting better from depression alongside other psychiatric treatments including cognitive - behavioural therapy and other types of psychotherapy.»

I've written about the use of neuropsychological tests for the differential diagnosis of AD, MCI, normal cognitive aging, and other neurodegenerative diseases, as well as for the prediction of cognitive decline and conversion from MCI to dementia.

Therefore, differences in the similarities of subjects» neural response time courses likely stem from factors such as differences in subjects» dispositions, moods, cognitive styles, pre-existing assumptions, expectations, values, views, and interests, as well as differences in the pre-existing knowledge structures into which incoming stimuli are integrated.

HD comprises several cognitive and affective symptoms, as well as uncontrolled movement (chorea), which have been hypothesized to arise from a preferential vulnerability of indirect pathway spiny projection neurons (iSPNs) preceding dysfunction of the direct pathway SPNs (dSPNs) in the striatum.

Therefore, the reversal of cognitive deficits as well as some other aspects of AD pathology by J147 may result from an up - regulation of BDNF and NGF pathways.

Carter uses methods from cognitive neuroscience including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and conducts basic research into the neural mechanisms of cognitive control as well as clinical and translational research in schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

After creating a pathological mouse model deficient for this gene, through the Gencodys Consortium (Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction; http://www.gencodys.eu/), scientists from PHENOMIN and the IGBMC showed major memory defects, as well as significant symptoms of hyperactivity on this model.

As of July 1, 2016, Clinical Psychological Science places a particular priority on manuscripts that are interdisciplinary and bring the best available basic science from within psychology (e.g., social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, affective psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience) and outside of psychology (e.g., sociology, anthropology, genetics, microbiology) to bear on our understanding of psychopathology.

Yann Hérault's team at the IGBMC (Strasbourg, France) and the Institut Clinique de la Souris (PHENOMIN - ICS) have recently published data helping to better understand neurocognitive pathways affected in the pathology; this work in the framework s of the European consortium GENCODYS («Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction») has been done in collaboration with the teams of Hendrik Stunnenberg and Hans van Bokhoven from the Raboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands), and the IGMM (Montpellier, France).

This project will adapt well - established perceptual and cognitive paradigms from human studies to mouse models.

«Composite» cognitive scores, combining the results from several different tests, are probably the best.

Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder resulting from an extended number of CAG repeats in the Huntingtin (Htt) gene, for which no disease - modifying therapy is currently available, and comprises several cognitive and affective symptoms, as well as uncontrolled movement (chorea).