Sentences with phrase «memory tests as»

Her own, 3 - year study of 38 female chimps found that the oldest four individuals — all older than 50 — got progressively worse at a spatial memory test as they aged.

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

But the parallel structure of these «sayings - groups» affords such an aid to the memory — as anyone can test out even in our translated text — that here too a relatively faithful preservation of the text by memory seems quite possible.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

The doctor could refer you to a child psychologist or psychiatrist, a developmental pediatrician, or another mental health professional, who will probably give your child various tests to evaluate such things as his memory and his problem - solving and listening skills.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memorAs Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memoras headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHAs Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHas the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

As the baby gazes in the mother's face he is recording a memory of her face so that if he is tested with a picture of his mother's face and other women's faces four hours later, he will choose his mother's face over and over again.

As Henry Kissinger had stated in his doctoral dissertation, no country's problem of security can be understood «without an awareness of the historical context» and that «the memory of states is the test of truth of their policy».

As expected, young mice treated with THC performed slightly worse on behavioral tests of memory and learning.

In addition, a growing number of studies are testing tDCS in healthy people and suggest it can improve working memory, attention and decision - making as well as stimulate creativity.

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.

In addition, Nokia and Wikgren tested the idea that an internal neural state could affect memory retrieval in the same way as the external environment.

These included standard IQ tests as well as memory tasks, in which participants were asked to recite sequences of random digits or words they had learned.

Sleep did not significantly improve memory by itself; participants who were not anticipating a test performed as badly as one another, regardless of whether or not they'd had a nap before the exam.

One of the simplest ways to assess memory is to read test subjects a list of words and ask them, after a short time has passed, to repeat as many as they can.

Roger Pertwee from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, who has studied cannabinoids since 1968, highlighted the brain's own cannabinoid system, which modulates pain, mood, memory, appetite, and more, as an important test site for research.

The purpose of both tests is to ensure language and memory abilities will not be affected as a result of surgery.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

Recent findings do suggest that healthy younger adults can improve their smarts as well: The ability of twentysomethings to solve patterning problems improved after practicing on unrelated memory tests, one University of Michigan study found.

The results highlight just how crucial it is for older adults, as well clinicians, to be aware of how ageist beliefs about older adults can affect older adults» real memory test performance.

Laura Glynn at the University of California, Irvine, asked 254 pregnant women to perform a series of memory tests at different stages of their pregnancy, as well as 12 to 14 weeks after the birth.

«Although running induces both substantial changes in number and morphology of young neurons as well as significant changes in learning behavior, this does not prove a causal relationship,» noted Professor Bischofberger, «Nevertheless, our results, together with previous findings, suggest that the enhanced pattern separation during memory testing is most likely mediated via running - induced increase in adult neurogenesis.»

When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food - hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees.

Voss now plans to test whether this method works on individuals who have disorders in which the memory association network is weak, such as Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia.

The participants underwent extensive testing for overall thinking abilities, and for specific aspects of thinking such as: processing speed, learning, memory, decision - making and language.

Researchers studied the brains of people 90 years old or older who had excellent memories, performing as well as people in their 50s and 60s on some tests.

The bad news was older adults did not improve on any of the tasks that should have benefitted from having better recollection, such as a memory test for remembering whether words were shown on a screen or heard through headphones.

Untreated 3xTg mice displayed impaired learning and memory as expected, but 3xTg mice that were administered PD146176 for 3 months were indistinguishable from normal mice in a memory test.

Later tests showed that Johnson retains other memories — such as the rules for playing in a string quartet or how it feels to fly in a headwind — that appear to be part declarative and part procedural at the same time.

In a series of experiments, Green gave groups of about 70 volunteers a battery of psychological tests that measured their mental performance in areas such as vigilance, speed of reaction, mental processing capacity and memory.

Automated technology used by many labs makes it easier to simply track a rat as it runs through a maze — a test of location - based memory — as opposed to studying more - sophisticated forms of memory.

They were tested on both their Norwegian and English language skills, as well as on working memory skills.

Yet Allen and psychologist William G. Iacono of the University of Minnesota reported in a 2001 review that although most direct memory tests — such as asking patients to recall a list of words in one alter state that they had previously encountered in a different alter state — reveal a lack of transfer of memories across alters, subtler tests usually reveal that memories formed by one alter are in fact accessible to others.

Cognition outcome measures include tests of general intelligence that determine IQ scores such as the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery, which tests working memory, language and processing speed, among other things.

The participants took part in a memory test known as the «Treasure - Hunt Task», where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) across two «days».

They found that the absence of a particular serotonin receptor (5HT2AR) reduced some of the effects of THC — such as its amnesic effect, based on a standard memory test.

Later, as adults, they tested the animals for their memory of the event and also measured their fear response.

The team, which published its findings in the Nov. 24 edition of the journal Nature Communications, engineered and tested improvements in the performance of a memory structure known as a ferroelectric tunnel junction.

Research by psychologists at Florida Atlantic University gives new meaning to the notion of «guilt by association» and aims to test how memory in humans as well as police use of mugshots and subtle innuendo can contaminate eyewitness testimonies.

In another experiment to test participants» memory for details, researchers flashed images, then showed them ones that participants had seen as well as ones they had not.

I was not as surprised as your reporter at the correlation between drinking alcohol and scores on memory tests taken...

Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

Before and after this training, the participants went through a battery of cognitive tests, designed to measure skills such as memory and attention.

Using the same materials, we tested whether recall of unethical memories would affect perceived effort to complete a variety of helping behaviors as compared to a control condition.