The lasting cognitive effects of a brain injury can prevent people from doing their jobs, attending school, or interacting with their friends and family.
Not exact matches
«Meditate regularly for an improved attention span in old age: Extensive study finds that regular meditation sessions can have a long -
lasting effect on a person's attention span and other
cognitive abilities.»
Last week, Lumosity hit the news for a different reason, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it the latest target in a crackdown on companies selling products that purportedly enhance memory, provide some other
cognitive benefit, or reduce the serious side
effects of dementia.
A broad range of early educational interventions are found to produce meaningful,
lasting effects on
cognitive, social, and schooling outcomes.
At the same time, I can honestly say I'm probably more stressed and sleep deprived now as a mom of six than I was in college and over the
last few years I have researched and evaluated several natural types of nootropics for their
effect on
cognitive performance (without the negative side
effects of smart drugs).
DHA deficiency during early development may have
lasting effects on
cognitive and visual function during adulthood.
In general, the content - centered preschool classrooms produced strong and immediate
effects on
cognitive and pre-academic outcomes compared with the child - centered approach, but no meaningful differences
lasted through the end of 2nd grade.
It appears to take intensive efforts over a period of several years to produce
lasting effects, but the fact that even the least intensive models of early intervention produce strong immediate
effects suggests that a combination of approaches within a comprehensive preventive program will have great promise in increasing children's
cognitive functioning and reducing future dropout.
A longitudinal study is needed to assess whether brief
cognitive behavioural therapy produces long
lasting effects on symptom reduction, overall functioning, drug compliance, relapse and readmission rates.
«NIMH - funded researchers recently completed a pilot study showing that an Internet - based, self - managed
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, with
effects that
last after treatment has ended.»
Recent research has emphasized the long -
lasting effects of early environmental influences5 and their significance for emotional security,
cognitive development, and learning skills.
To date, the immediate and
lasting positive
effects of quality care on language,
cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that
effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial
effects are large, long - term
effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in
cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.
Another systematic review of the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression in adolescents as compared to treatment as usual or no treatment showed that psychotherapies (particularly
cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy) had superior
effects over the other treatments, but this did not
last.
Establishing whether corporal punishment has
lasting effects on children's
cognitive development and psychosocial well - being has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data, especially from Low - and Middle - Income Countries.