Factors which were found to be significantly related to
lower cognitive scores included maternal characteristics (low maternal educational attainment and younger age) and socio - economic factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early years).
Short one - legged standing times were also independently linked with
lower cognitive scores.
Individuals sleeping less than six hours and more than nine hours had significantly
lower cognitive scores compared to those in the intermediate group.
Not exact matches
If your IQ
score isn't the be-all-and-end-all of brainpower and your activities and attitude can influence how intelligent you are on a daily basis, then you are just as able to
lower your
cognitive powers as you are to increase then.
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.
Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 •
Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves
cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental
scores and earlier discharge2
They found that the babies of nursing moms who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink each day did not differ in measures of
cognitive development from babies of teetotaling moms, but that they did
score lower on tests of motor skills.
Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher
scores on measures of
cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and
lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.
Moreover, hunger has been implicated in impaired
cognitive function and
lower test
scores, student absenteeism, tardiness, visits to the school nurse and discipline problems.
Children whose mothers worked during their first year
scored lower on
cognitive tests and had more behavioural problems.
Infants with high vs.
low maternal involvement in the single - family room and open bay NICUs were compared on the Bayley
Cognitive, Language and Motor
scores and Pervasive Developmental Disorders autism screen.
That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and
lower cognitive test
scores at age 4.
People with mild
cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who
score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.
On a 30 - point test that evaluates for mild
cognitive impairment, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy p
cognitive impairment, called the Montreal
Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy p
Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average
score three points
lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pregnancy.
Instead, an association between muscle strength and
cognitive function was observed only when sum
scores depicting upper or
lower body muscle strength were included in the model.
Sum
scores to depict
lower body and upper body muscle strength were calculated separately, and
cognitive function was assessed using the CERAD neuropsychological test battery with calculated total
score.
Gamblers also
scored much
lower on the
cognitive reflection task, which measures impulsivity.
The study participants whose diets
scored highest on the MIND diet
score had substantially slower rate of
cognitive decline than those who
scored lowest.
Children from families of
low socioeconomic status generally
score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a
cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.
Participants with previous strokes had
lower baseline
cognitive scores on all four tests and 78 percent died during follow - ups.
An analysis of published studies found no evidence that
low - dose aspirin buffers against
cognitive decline or dementia or improves
cognitive test
scores.
Being overweight was likewise associated with
lower cognitive - function
scores, especially on the reasoning tests.
After accounting for these variables, individuals with the highest activity energy expenditure
scores tended to have a
lower probability of
cognitive impairment incidence.
A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine found that elderly patients who consumed the highest levels of selenium had higher
cognitive test
scores than those who consumed the
lowest levels of the element.
The analysis of 121 people found that those with
lower vitamin B12 levels
scored worse on
cognitive tests, and had smaller brain volumes as revealed by MRI scans.
In one study, elderly patients with vitamin D deficiency
scored lower on
cognitive tests than those with adequate levels of the vitamin.
The exercise group performed better in
cognitive tests, including better «delayed recall» and
lower Clinical Dementia Rating
scores.
First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test
scores and fluid
cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a
low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).
Updating his findings, McLanahan and Jencks report that «A father's absence
lowers children's educational attainment, not by altering their
scores on
cognitive tests, but by disrupting their social and emotional adjustment and reducing their ability or willingness to exercise self - control.»
«We show that minority students have
lower achievement
scores than white students with the same
cognitive ability, and that placement in a [gifted] class effectively closes this minority underachievement gap,» the authors wrote.
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
Cognitive problems were predicted by high stressor and negative coping
scores and
low positive personality
scores.
She finds no difference in children's vocabulary
scores at age three between stable two - parent families (whether cohabiting or married) and stable single - mother families, but she finds that
scores are
lower in unstable families (whether cohabiting or married) than in stable families.42 Carey Cooper and co-authors also highlight the role that partnership instability plays in the link between family structure and child
cognitive development, although these links are much weaker than those they find for behavioral development (discussed below).43
Cognitive behavior therapy showed a
lower rate of MDD at the end of treatment compared with NST (17.1 % vs 42.4 %; P =.02), and resulted in a higher rate of remission (64.7 %, defined as absence of MDD and at least 3 consecutive Beck Depression Inventory
scores < 9) than SBFT (37.9 %; P =.03) or NST (39.4 %; P =.04).
Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or
lower test
scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not
cognitive ones.»
Those NICHD SECCYD children whose families were always poor
scored lower on measures of academic, language, and
cognitive performance, and were rated by their teachers as having more adjustment problems than other children throughout the early elementary grades.
AEDI
scores range from 0 (
low ability) to 10 (high ability) for each of five early childhood development domains: (1) physical health and well - being; (2) social competence; (3) emotional maturity; (4) language and
cognitive skills; and (5) communication skills and general knowledge.
Turkish immigrant children, on average, had
lower HLE,
cognitive, and speaking proficiency test
scores when compared to their German peers.
The present study assessed whether
low scores of affective and
cognitive empathy at wave 1 (t1) can predict involvement in cyberbullying five months later (t2).
Children whose mothers worked during their first year
scored lower on
cognitive tests and had more behavioural problems.
is associated with slightly
lowered scores in measures of language,
cognitive development and academic achievement in later years;
The present study assessed whether
low scores of affective and
cognitive empathy at wave 1 (t1) can predict involvement in cyberbullying
Changes in depressive symptoms, rumination,
cognitive reactivity, mindfulness skills, and self - compassion from pre to post treatment, grouped by the mean teacher competence
score from
lowest to highest.
In addition, for male partners,
scoring higher on
cognitive empathy (i.e., situational perspective taking) was related to
lower levels of negative support provision.
Marital conflict and a history of paternal psychiatric problems were independently linked with
lower cognitive test
scores; together with a working class home background these were the only factors that contributed to the deleterious effect of maternal postnatal depression.
Conclusions Compared to offspring of adult women, children of adolescent mothers have
lower mean
scores on
cognitive measures, smaller head circumference, and higher BMI.
Moreover, they had significantly
lower scores in avoidance and emotional reactivity and significantly higher
scores in
cognitive restructuring and problem solving SCS subscales.
Low self - esteem and a related dysfunctional
cognitive style were the personality variables most clearly linked with PBI
scores, with links persisting after partialling out state levels of depression.