Sentences with phrase «of cognitive stimulation»

The only consistent advantage among all races for children in married households was a better home environment in terms of cognitive stimulation and emotional support.

She analyzed data on four variables for the children: reading and math test scores; a measure of behavioral problems; and a measure of home environment, which looked at levels of cognitive stimulation and emotional support.

An evaluation of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy sessions for people with dementia and a concomitant support group for their carers.

Based on prior work on caregiving characteristics important in the development of self - regulatory processes,27 - 29, 35,36 factors reflective of supportive caregiving were categorized across 2 domains: engagement in mother - child activities and availability of educational / recreational toys as a measure of cognitive stimulation.

Strauss and Knight42 demonstrated that low levels of cognitive stimulation are a potent risk factor for the development of childhood obesity, even after controlling for social class and maternal obesity.

Students who grow up amid economic insecurity often face many obstacles: parents without education, lack of healthy attachments, lag of cognitive stimulation, lack of enrichment activities, violent neighborhoods and lack of access to medical resources.

The identification of this and other risk factors (such as lower levels of cognitive stimulation and a higher body mass index) may help us to target individuals for screening, intervention and possible treatment.

Sleeping more than 8 hours and less than 6 and the lack of cognitive stimulation such as reading favors the development of cognitive impairment in people over 65.

He argues that the gap between poorer and wealthier kids» success levels is caused not mostly through lack of cognitive stimulation, but through a chaotic environm

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As countries around the world respond to their aging populations, the French results shine a spotlight on why it's important to keep up high levels of cognitive and social stimulation through work and retired life.

The constant change of scenery makes it harder to think, because «the detection of changes in the visual stimulation results in distraction of cognitive processing,» according to the journal NeuroReport.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

We also administered the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment short form (HOME - SF), 17 which measures cognitive stimulation and emotional support in the child's environment.

The lack of differences between preterms randomly fed breast milk or an appropriate formula is consistent with our findings that the correlation of breastfeeding with more optimal cognitive function is actually attributable to quality of parental intellectual endowment or stimulation unless the infant formula is nutritionally deficient.

Early experimental studies from Harvard in patients with schizophrenia suggest that cerebellar stimulation is safe and appears to improve some of the patients» cognitive abnormalities.

The group that received all three interventions consistently performed the best, and showed substantial gains in two of the tasks over the group that received cognitive and physical fitness training but did not receive brain stimulation.

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

The beneficial effects of cognitive training can be significantly enhanced with the addition of physical fitness training and noninvasive brain stimulation.»

A subsequent study in 2003 showed such stimulation could improve a cognitive ability psychologists call motor sequence learning — the process of training the brain in the precisely sequenced steps required to interact with the world via means such as listening or executing a movement.

Northwestern University's Ken Paller is already administering this type of stimulation to middle - aged adults with mild cognitive impairment, often an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.

Left - behind children tend to leave school early, eat poorly, and have little cognitive stimulation in the crucial first years of life.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

New research in the field of adaptive human - robot interaction (HRI) will provide tools for the robots to support cognitive stimulation and social inclusion, which improve over time by learning from and adapting to the state of the user.

In the last part of their research they used brain stimulation to increase levels of cognitive inhibition, which is thought to regulate analytical thinking.

The results showed that while this brain stimulation increased levels of cognitive inhibition, it did not change levels of supernatural belief, suggesting there is no direct link between cognitive inhibition and supernatural belief.

Sandia National Laboratories cognitive scientist Mike Trumbo adjusts the placement of a transcranial direct current stimulation unit on cognitive scientist Laura Matzen's head.

The new appreciation of the brain's ability to remodel itself in response to stimulation, coupled with baby boomers» dread of mental decay, is spawning a burgeoning industry that promises a cognitive fountain of youth.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain Sstimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain SStimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain StimulationStimulation.

Electroconvulsive therapy remains one of the most effective treatments for severe depression, but new UNSW research shows ultra-brief pulse stimulation is almost as effective as standard ECT, with far fewer cognitive side effects.

It has already been shown that brain stimulation using electric currents can boost a number of cognitive functions (see «Apply the electrodes...»).

The «psychological stimulation» of digital media — whether it's exposure to violent media or texting with friends — can also sabotage sleep by boosting cognitive arousal, the authors note.

The results suggest that, theoretically, delivering targeted, selective, and specific brain stimulation might improve some of the cognitive aspects of losing dopamine in Parkinson's disease.»

«We know that cognitive impairment can be devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Some of these activities depend on ongoing electrical stimulation, implying a direct causal effect of DBS on cognitive and motor skills.

Then, during the stimulation, the participant played a research version of computerized cognitive training games that challenged areas of information processing and attention and working memory systems.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

The results of the study reveal that transcranial direct current stimulation designed to simultaneously target motor and cognitive regions apparently induces immediate aftereffects in the brain that translate into reduced freezing of gait and improvements in executive function and mobility.»

«The effects of multi-target simultaneous stimulation of motor and cognitive networks demand investigation,» says Prof. Jeffrey Hausdorff of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine and the Center for Movement Disorders at Tel Aviv Medical Center, who led the research for the study, just published in the journal Movement Disorders.

Her doctoral work explored the mechanisms of action of a novel antidepressant treatment — transcranial direct current stimulation — using cognitive neuropsychological tasks, stress...

My main goals are: a) to unravel the functional and anatomical connectivity of the primate prefrontal cortex circuitry within the framework of complex cognitive tasks, b) to generate tools and techniques that allow manipulating prefrontal cortex function and therefore generate symptoms of mental disorders in behaving non-human primates, and c) to produce interventions (e.g., deep brain stimulation or local / systemic drug delivery) that allow rescuing the generated disease phenotypes.

Freitas et al (2011) performed a systematic search of all studies using non-invasive stimulation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and reviewed all 29 identified articles; 24 focused on measures of motor cortical reactivity and (local) plasticity and functional connectivity, with 8 of these studies assessing also effects of pharmacological agents, and 5 studies focused on the enhancement of cognitive function in AD.

Folks who are sophisticated enough about neurostimulation to be experimenting with cognitive enhancement would obviously benefit from having the option to test other forms of stimulation that frequently come up in the scientific literature.

Deep brain stimulation using surgical wire implants into the frontal lobes of the brain of Alzheimer's patients may help improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities of the patients.

The science: putting something in your mouth activates areas of the brain that respond to gustatory (taste) stimulation and act with an appropriate emotional, cognitive and behavioural response.

Cognitive improvements probably resulted from the stimulation of the brain due to movement as opposed to resulting cardiovascular improvements, like increased oxygen and blood supplies.

Taken together, these findings suggest that brain stimulation may reduce symptoms of anorexia by improving cognitive control over compulsive features of the disorder,» McClelland said.

Transgenerational effects of caloric restriction on longevity, B - vitamins silencing bad genes, cognitive stimulation revering neurodegenerative disease, exercise increases neurogenesis, and vitamin D controls aging.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a brief novel intervention combining elements of exposure and cognitive therapy, and somatic stimulation.

Clinical EFT is a brief novel intervention combining elements of exposure and cognitive and somatic stimulation.