One study has shown that people with higher levels of vitamin D had greater information processing capabilities and memory
function than those with lower levels of vitamin D. So, there's a good chance that vitamin D may help to improve overall mental sharpness and memory.
Not exact matches
The fact that China's debt is rising much more quickly
than China's debt servicing capacity is consistent
with my implicit model — which claims that the optimal amount of capital stock in China is a
function of China's relatively
low level of social capital, and that Chinese investment has far exceeded its optimal
level — but it doesn't prove it.
These individuals had a significantly
lower level of kidney
function than those
with a
low score.
Some studies have shown that people
with cognitive disorders have
lower levels of CoQ10 in their blood
than people
with healthy brain
function.
Researchers found that seniors
with the highest
levels of BDNF gene
function had a 50 percent slower loss of memory and thinking
than those
with the
lowest levels.
On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised
functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely
than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated
with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills,
lower adaptive
functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high
levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.
Interestingly, agapic love scores also differed as a
function of participant ethnicity,
with African American participants reporting
lower levels of agapic love
than Latino / a, Asian / Pacific Islander, and non-Hispanic White participants.
We hypothesised that patients
with BN would show
lower emotional regulation
functioning, expressed by higher
levels of positive emotion and reduced anger
than healthy controls, which might improve after remission.
As evident in Fig. 3, the severe TBI group reported significantly worse family
functioning than the ORTHO group, but only in families
with low levels of resources and only at the 4 - and 5 - year follow - up assessments, t (126) = 3.16, p =.002; t (139) = 3.06, p =.003, respectively.
General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated
with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly
functioning families.113) Mothers of children
with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress
than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers,
with maternal sleep quality associated
with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers
with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems
than those
with high
levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering
with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.
As predicted, parents of children
with ASD reported
lower levels of family
functioning than controls.
However, mothers of children
with AD reported
lower levels of marital adjustment and family
functioning than mothers of TD children.