Sentences with phrase «measured cognitive improvement»

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All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

The researchers measured significant improvements in children's cognitive skills after the intervention.

While improvement was noted across a range of specific cognitive measures in the active group, there were no improvements measured in activities of daily living.

At meetings, she has reported «significant improvement» in certain measures of cognitive and motor function.

Researchers found participants in the group treated with tDCS showed significantly greater improvements on sensitive, computer - based measures of complex attention and increases in their response times across trials compared to the group that did cognitive training games alone.

One year follow - up revealed that AN1792 antibody responders showed improvements in cognitive measures as assessed by the neuropsychological test battery (NTB) and a decrease in brain volume compared with placebo.

The article, Cognitive improvement after mild traumatic brain injury measured with functional neuroimaging during the acute period, was published by PLoS One (doi: 10.137 / journal.pone.0126110).

Cognitive improvement after mild traumatic brain injury measured with functional neuroimaging during the acute period

In a clinical trial conducted among 60 Alzheimer's patients where the probiotic supplemented group took 200 ml / day probiotic milk for 12 weeks, the probiotic group showed a significant improvement in the MMSE (Mini-mental state examination) which is a measure of cognitive function.

Using standard cognitive tests, we measured attention, impulsivity and working memory before and after one month of at - home interaction with the device, and found statistically significant improvements in these 3 areas, and especially large improvements for children with substantially higher attention impairment at the beginning of the study.

Results Subjects randomized to interpersonal psychotherapy (n = 24) and supportive psychotherapy with imipramine (n = 26) had significantly greater improvement on depressive measures than those receiving supportive psychotherapy (n = 24) or cognitive behavioral therapy (n = 27).

Positive relationships between white matter microstructure and breastfeeding duration are also exhibited in several brain regions, that are anatomically consistent with observed improvements in cognitive and behavioral performance measures.»

Our finding that the severity of depressive symptoms was a significant but relatively smaller contributor to physical disability in this sample (after controlling for the possible effects of age, sex and duration of pain) is consistent with findings of some previous studies of patients with chronic pain, but not with some treatment studies, which found that depression level contributed to less significant improvement in pain - related disability.11, 27 It is not surprising that cognitive, pain and behavioural variables accounted for more physical disability than depressive symptoms but it is notable that social support (as measured by the MPI), sense of control over life, and catastrophising did not significantly contribute to physical disability.