Sentences with phrase «high cognitive impairment»

The researchers» hypothesis was that people with «high cognitive impairment» would benefit from the first therapy, unmotivated people from the second, and «meaning - seeking» people from the third.

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A small 2009 study found that of the 41 participants with mild cognitive impairment, those who had higher stress ratings also had faster rates of cognitive decline.

Adjusted OR for cognitive impairment (MMSE score < 24) were 2 · 23 (95 % CI 1 · 24, 3 · 99) for total sugars and 2 · 28 (95 % CI 1 · 26, 4 · 14) for added sugars, comparing the highest with lowest intake quintiles.

A Drink Might Boost Cognition and Creativity, and Potentially Fight Off the Flu A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease finds evidence that adults who drink moderately and regularly have a higher chance of not only living longer, but doing so without developing dementia or other cognitive impairment...

«While we can't make a direct link between higher caffeine consumption and lower incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia, with further study, we can better quantify its relationship with cognitive health outcomes.

Talavage said that when one of the offensive lineman who was found to have suffered cognitive impairment after sustaining a high number of subconcussive blows (impairment that persisted beyond the season) decided to change his technique, he experienced a drastic reduction in the number of blows to the top front of his head and a moderate reduction in the total number of blows.

Functionally - detected cognitive impairment in high school football players without clinically diagnosed concussion.J Neurotrauma 2013; doi: 10.1089 / neu.2010.1512 (e-publ April 11, 2013).

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Functionally - Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players Without Clinically - Diagnosed Concussion.

Functionally - detected cognitive impairment in high school football players without clinically diagnosed concussion.

Researchers used accelerometers to measure the daily physical activity of participants, all of whom are in late middle - age and at high genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, but presently show no cognitive impairment.

People with mild cognitive impairment are at one - in - 10 risk of developing dementia within a year — and the risk is markedly higher among those with depression.

Instead, quite a moderate amount of physical activity was found to be sufficient for memory - protecting benefits, and only the most inactive group of twins stood out with a significantly higher risk for cognitive impairment.

Individuals who suffer from phenylketonuria — a metabolic disorder that causes cognitive impairment when phenylalanine level is too high — can use GMP as an alternative protein source.

«It was the quality of sleep that predicted future cognitive decline in this study, not the quantity,» said lead author Terri Blackwell, MA, senior statistician at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) in San Francisco, Calif. «With the rate of cognitive impairment increasing and the high prevalence of sleep problems in the elderly, it is important to determine prospective associations with sleep and cognitive decline.»

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

The reverse was true for ASD plus cognitive impairment: four - year - olds had a 20 percent higher prevalence compared to eight - year - olds.

«Early detection of individuals at high risk of developing memory and thinking problems that we call mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial because people with MCI are at a greater risk of developing dementia.

Eight - year - old children had a 40 percent higher prevalence of ASD without cognitive impairment compared to four - year - old children.

According to Bonn - Miller, a number of products also contained a significant amount of THC — the chemical compound in cannabis responsible for making a person feel «high» — which has been shown cause cognitive impairment and other adverse health effects.

«Although cognitive status was worse in the TBI group,» said Dr. Sumowski, senior research scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, «higher education attenuated the negative effect of TBI on cognitive status, such that persons with higher education were protected against TBI - related cognitive impairment.»

Conducting a cross-sectional study of a large cohort of patients with different levels of cognitive impairment and different disease stages, the researchers found that the amounts of a TREM2 fragment in the cerebrospinal fluid were highest during early stages characterized by mild cognitive impairment symptoms.

Excessive sleepiness can cause cognitive impairments and put individuals at a higher risk of motor vehicle crash.

Unfortunately, the opposite proved to be the case: Women who took estrogen had a slightly higher rate of cognitive impairment than women who didn't.

In analyses stratified by occupational class, the team found that unemployment and sickness spells were more strongly associated with cognitive impairment for workers in higher occupations.

In particular, some of the findings suggest that leaves reported as unemployment and sickness are associated with higher risk of cognitive impairment indicating that these kinds of employment gaps may decrease cognitive reserve in the long run.

Although we now know that low levels of vitamin D are associated with cognitive impairment, we do not know if high or optimum levels will lessen cognitive losses.

Dr. Ding's team enrolled older patients at high risk to develop Alzheimer's disease who have early signs of memory loss, or mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

In this study, we have used a multidimensional approach including high - magnification and super-resolution microscopy, cerebro - spinal fluid (CSF) mass spectrometry analysis and ELISA to investigate the Aβ pathology and its associated cognitive impairments, in a novel transgenic rat model overexpressing human APP.

A high percentage of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) develop clinical dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD) within 1 year.

Among those originally classified with mild cognitive impairment, baseline asymmetry was higher in those that progressed to Alzheimer's dementia and became even greater as symptoms developed.

Mild memory problems could signal what's called mild cognitive impairment or MCI, which puts you at a higher risk for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia down the road.

Or you have an elderly person with arthritis who has a mild dementia: In that case, the bias would be to try an NSAID because the opioid has a higher likelihood of causing cognitive impairment.

These sudden highs and lows present a big risk for developing cognitive problems and possible impairment.

In fact, one study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that higher consumption of green tea was associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment.

A recent study found that those who took one drug classified as a «definite anticholinergics» had a four times higher incidence of cognitive impairment.

Several studies have associated high intakes of tofu and other unfermented soy products to increased risk of dementia and cognitive impairments (5, 6, 7).

High homocysteine levels are a risk factor for brain shrinkage, cognitive impairment and dementia.

After accounting for these variables, individuals with the highest activity energy expenditure scores tended to have a lower probability of cognitive impairment incidence.

There was a strong greater gray matter volume and high energy output association in individuals having mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.

Participants with the highest reported intake of carbohydrates were 1.9 times more likely to develop cognitive impairment as compared to those with the lowest consumption.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic, publishing the results of their study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, explain how people 70 and older who eat food high in carbohydrates have nearly four times the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, and the danger is also present with a diet heavy in sugar.

When total fat and protein intake were factored, those with the highest carbohydrate intake were 3.6 times more likely to develop cognitive impairment.

This bad bacteria lives on and multiplies off of sugar, crowding out our good bacteria and leading to digestive upset, inflammation, cognitive impairment, lethargy, higher incidence of illness, and more.

An earlier pilot study showed a high correlation between MCT - induced ketosis and improved cognition in mild cognitive impairment (Rebello et al., 2015).

In addition, the 25 percent of the participants who had mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's also experienced an increase in brain volume due to the higher amounts of exercise.

Many studies have shown that a lack of sleep not only raises the stress hormone cortisol, resulting in an increase in blood pressure, stroke risk, multiple digestive disorders, mood swings, cognitive impairment, it in fact is a higher risk for developing cancer than being poisoned with PCBs (poisonous chemicals) are.

A study with 23 elderly with mild cognitive impairment showed that a ketogenic diet improved verbal memory performance after 6 weeks compared to a standard high carbohydrate diet.

These symptoms may include a low stamina, a low body temperature, cold extremities, fatigue, dry skin, weight gain, anxiety & depression, brittle nails, hair loss, cognitive impairment, high cholesterol levels, constipation, memory lapses and heart palpitations.

A substance called Lipopolysaccharide endotoxin (LPP) has been shown to be connected to people with high preponderance of depression and cognitive impairment.