Sentences with phrase «large cognitive benefits»

It may be that there are large cognitive benefits to learning these goals when they are developmentally appropriate.

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It's probably an empty promise, according to the largest study to date of brain - training software, which finds no evidence of general cognitive benefits.

A large body of research has revealed the enormous benefits of these fats, ranging from enhancing cognitive function to fighting obesity.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts and the largest school district in the state, has recently experienced the benefits of this collaboration by piloting a new adaptive cognitive vocabulary app that's enabled by this new platform.

This question is particularly important because incentives» promise relies on the idea that they might take the place of some cognitive failing or set of preferences that otherwise would have led students to make choices with large long - term benefits.

The benefits of small test gains are coming at much larger social - emotional costs and the cognitive gains made are not nearly large enough to let the students truly succeed.

«Puzzle toys can be a great profit - maker because the added benefit of stimulating a dog's cognitive functions can help [support] a larger markup on these toys,» says Cao.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.

Future research could evaluate the specificity of specialist treatment interventions in larger samples, such as parent training for child behavioural problems, and cognitive or brief psychodynamic therapy for children with post-traumatic stress disorders following exposure to violence.32 Other groups of socially excluded children and families, such as children looked after by local authorities and youth offenders, could also benefit from similar designated, accessible interagency mental health services.