Sentences with phrase «of cognitive deficits»

First, we have provided some empirical support to theories that suggest that bullying might arise out of cognitive deficits as well as emotional ones.

We also investigated the role of cognitive deficits and conduct problems in these relations.

Here are a few of the labs and research centers that include schizophrenia as one of their primary areas of inquiry: Duke Schizophrenia Research Group The Schizophrenia Research Group at Duke University in Durham, NC, focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

Progress in this research project has the potential to provide insights into large - scale circuit mechanisms of cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

A sufferer may experience a wide range of cognitive deficits depending on which part of the brain was injured in an accident.

«Majority of homeless adults with mental illness have high rates of cognitive deficits.»

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

Sleep assessments in young children showed that, in the context of habitual snoring and enlarged tonsils and adenoids, moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea increased the likelihood and magnitude of cognitive deficits.

Nearly three - quarters of homeless adults with mental illness in Canada show evidence of cognitive deficits, such as difficulties with problem solving, learning and memory, new research has found.

In a commentary on the work in the same issue, Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says this «smoking gun for a genetic cause of one kind of language disorder» should motivate researchers to search for possible genetic explanations of cognitive deficits in general, as well as potential treatments.

This could someday be an important advance for the treatment of cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders and Alzheimer's disease,» said Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which co-funded the research.

But previous studies from our group showed that we can connect the severity of the disease with the extent of the cognitive deficits, when such deficits are detectable.»

The increase in Aβ peptides paralleled the manifestation of cognitive deficits, several months prior to amyloid plaque deposition.

Therefore, the reversal of cognitive deficits as well as some other aspects of AD pathology by J147 may result from an up - regulation of BDNF and NGF pathways.

The relative specificity of this cognitive deficit points to an issue of cognitive inflexibility in the BAC model, which would be consistent with deficits characteristic of Huntington's Disease in humans.

As a clinical neuropsychologist at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, I see outpatients with a variety of cognitive deficits.

This category represents some of the more difficult cases because clients with this type of injury are often still making their own decisions but they are labouring under the influence of cognitive deficits that may not be immediately obvious because the client is not bed ridden.

Schizophrenics exhibit brain abnormalities that go beyond emotional disturbances and delusions, including diminished frontal lobe activity, which results in a range of cognitive deficits.

«We are currently in the process of identifying differences in gene expression and neuroanatomy in these birds to better understand the neural mechanisms of these cognitive deficits,» says Roth.

Given that the hippocampus is associated with episodic memory, he says that this may account for some of the cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's, including the spells of confusion.

Nevertheless, although improvements in the quality of institutions have led to a very marked reduction, of cognitive deficits (Tizard & Hodges, 1978), the same benefits were not observed in social relationships.