Sentences with phrase «improving cognitive capacity»

Thus, increasing neurogenesis is a potential treatment for a variety of disorders that would benefit from improving cognitive capacity.

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Available from Kiko Labs, the Thinking Time app helps children to test their memory capacity while improving their cognitive skills at the same time.

Neuroenhancement: Building an Improved Human Body and Mind [September 19, 2013] Human enhancement is the notion that science and technology can be used to restore or expand cognitive and physical human capacities.

The survey examines public attitudes about the potential use of three emerging technologies that could fundamentally improve people's health, cognitive abilities or physical capacities.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Blueberries: Also called «brainberries» by Dr. Steven Platt, MD author of Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods Proven to Change Your Life, blueberries have one of the highest antioxidant capacities of all fruits and vegetables and are known to improve memory and cognitive function.

This can include looking at heavy metals, food, environmental and chemical sensitivities, electromagnetic fields, cognitive issues, trauma and emotional stress, hormonal imbalances, detox capacity, improving lymphatic drainage (see April's Holistic Outlook column), anti-inflammatory nutrition, and more.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

Alejandro provides Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools Seminars for skills development, self - directedness, improved collaboration, and increased capacity for individuals and teams to reach greater levels of success.

My other main approach focuses on social perspective taking — our capacity to discern the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of others (including the cognitive biases that undermine this capacity)-- as a means to improving the social connections between teachers and students.

She points to the work of the cognitive neuroscientist Daphne Bavelier as an exception: Bavelier found that playing an action game such as Call of Duty for 10 hours will improve a person's detail vision and multitasking skills, and almost double their capacity for tracking moving objects even five months later.

The STRONG health coach uses motivational interviewing (MI) and other cognitive behavioral strategies to manage the complex health needs of employees enrolled in the JBS STRONG or PILGRIM»S STRONG worksite health improvement program, with the objectives of improving participant capacity for self - care, to achieve desired health improvement goals and clinical outcomes

He added that the research establishes with greater certainty that some cognitive abilities often seen as immutable, such as working memory capacity, can be improved through mindfulness training.

Similarly, ongoing efforts to «unlearn» unhealthy lifestyles and to treat noncommunicable diseases are warranted, 63 but so are efforts to improve the capacity of caregivers and communities to encourage and proactively build the rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills that allow for the adoption of healthy, adaptive coping skills.18, 20,66,67 Ultimately the prevention of all childhood adversity is an unrealistic objective and, to a certain extent, an undesirable one.

Computer - based training programs targeting attention focusing and control has proven to enhance efficiency of the brain attention system in young children as well as reasoning capacities.14 It has also been shown that classroom curricula that emphasize regulation and executive functions skills, such as Tools of the Mind, 17 improves children's cognitive control.18 But home environment is also important.