Sentences with phrase «mild cognitive deficits»

As a result of his concussion, plaintiff was diagnosed with mild cognitive deficits by his neuropsychologist.

«Research has shown that even mild cognitive deficits lead to depression, anxiety, decreased participation in society, increased unemployment, and decreased quality of life,» says Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation, and project director of the Northern New Jersey TBI System (NNJTBIS).

Such mild cognitive deficits may not endanger anyone if a marijuana user lazes on the couch, but it is a different story when someone takes that high on the road.

Not exact matches

«Unfortunately, most clinical trials to date have focused on patients whose cognitive deficits are already mild to severe, and when the therapeutic opportunities in this late stage of the disease are minimal.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

The major cognitive deficits that accompany mild disabilities are problems usually associated with reading and math (for example, reading comprehension, spelling, oral recitation, hand eye coordination, computation, and visual spatial orientation), so special education teachers and administrators may not see the pertinence of addressing these deficits in the social studies curriculum.

Populations include: borderline personality disorder, bipolar with manic, OCD, mild / moderate cognitive deficits, depression, anxiety and trauma.

These characteristics are milder in parents than in individuals diagnosed with ASD and often include only some aspects of functioning, such as cognitive deficits, preference to be alone, insistence on sameness, reluctance to change or obsessive - compulsive symptoms [70,71].