Sentences with phrase «lower on cognitive tests»

Children whose mothers worked during their first year scored lower on cognitive tests and had more behavioural problems.

In one study, elderly patients with vitamin D deficiency scored lower on cognitive tests than those with adequate levels of the vitamin.

Children whose mothers worked during their first year scored lower on cognitive tests and had more behavioural problems.

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For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

He grew up in a low - income neighborhood, he has siblings who've spent time in prison, and he doesn't do great on traditional tests of cognitive ability.

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.

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 pcognitive 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 pCognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pregnancy.

Some patients on the lower dose of the drug saw some improvements on a cognitive test over those who got the placebo, but the small differences could have been due to chance.

«If an individual had the Val / Val combination, then their performance on a battery of cognitive tests (conducted long after the injury occurred) was remarkably lower than that of individuals who had the Val / Met or Met / Met combination.»

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.

Third, two other randomised controlled trials of homocysteine - lowering treatments have shown effects on cognition: a trial in which normal participants with baseline tHcy levels > 13 µmol / L were treated with folic acid (0.8 mg / d) for three years showed a beneficial effect on several cognitive tests [44].

I also went beyond Dr. Small's advice and took 2.4 micrograms of vitamin B12, the standard recommended daily amount — since studies show people with low levels perform poorly on memory tests — and 1,000 international units of vitamin D, discovered by Tufts University researchers to boost cognitive function.

Being overweight was likewise associated with lower cognitive - function scores, especially on the reasoning tests.

Studies suggest that low doses of caffeine throughout the day are more effective than the traditional übercup first thing in the a.m. Researchers found that shift workers, medical residents, truck drivers, and others who work odd hours not only got a better boost from caffeine when they drank it in small portions, but they also performed better on cognitive tests.

But getting back to its role in brain health, in 2007 researchers at the University of Wisconsin uncovered strong links between low levels of vitamin D in Alzheimer's patients and poor outcomes on cognitive tests.

Women in the higher estrone quartiles had lower performance on two cognitive tests.

Celiac disease — Wheat gluten sensitivity — Enterolabs, Cyrex labs, antigliadin antibody Chronic autoimmune disorders - entire list of autoimmune diseases Chronic hives Cognitive Dysfunction and Dementia from B12 deficiency Dermatitis herpetiformis (herpes)- typical for wheat gluten sensitivity Depression - Leaky Gut with LPS (see articles by Michael Maes) Diabetes — Autoimmune type one Eczema Gall bladder disease — associated with hypochlorhydia Graves disease - Autoimmune - Elevated TSH receptor ab - Yersinia molecular Mimciry with TSH receptor Hepatitis Iron deficiency - Low Iron and Low ferritin Hyper and hypothyroidism - Autoimmune - Hashimotos Thyroiditis Lupus erythematosus - autoimmune Myasthenia gravis Neuropathy and NeuroPsychiatric Disorder from B12 deficiency Osteoporosis - from Calcium Malabsorption Pernicious anemia — Parietal Cell Antibodies - B12 deficiency - gastric atrophy Psoriasis - autoimmune Rheumatoid arthritis - autoimmune Rosacea Sjögren's syndrome — Autoimmune Thyrotoxicosis - three types: Graves, Hashitoxicosis, and Txic Nodular Goiter Vitiligo Chronic intestinal parasites or abnormal flora - GI - Fx shows parasite DNA Undigested food in stool - Demonstrated on GI - FX test Chronic candida infections - from gut dysbiosis Upper digestive tract gassiness - from dysbiosis

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.

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.»

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

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

Turkish immigrant children, on average, had lower HLE, cognitive, and speaking proficiency test scores when compared to their German peers.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.