Sentences with phrase «of cognitive losses»

Could the root cause of cognitive losses be mitochondrial?

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

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An estimated 75 % of cancer patients have some level of cognitive impairment (memory loss, attention problems, etc.).

Robert Veatch, professor emeritus of ethics at Georgetown University, wants to expand the criteria of brain death so that they include the loss of overt cognitive function.

In the cognitive view, dispossession (and loss of self - command) involves a manner of forgetting which of the ingredients in a rich set of possible ends and purposes is most essential to the self's identity.

Though it's still being understood, doctors have identified a series of very serious conditions linked to the disease: depression, cognitive impairment, suicidal thoughts and behavior, aggression, short - term memory loss, difficulty walking, dementia and, yes, substance abuse.

Both of these fats contribute to fats loss and can improve several aspects of your health, including cardiovascular and cognitive function.

Studies have shown that among the many effects of physical abuse are depression, anxiety, cognitive and learning difficulties, even a lowering of IQ (especially verbal IQ), disordered sleep, flashbacks, loss of empathy, aggressive behavior, chronically high stress levels which can lead to chronic health effects such as high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and inability to maintain relationships.

Loss of consciousness, concussion history and acute symptom group did not substantially affect symptom, cognitive or balance outcomes.

Recent studies have shown that the use of the SAC has value in helping sports medicine professionals in detecting and quantifying acute cognitive impairment on the sports sideline (3), particularly in identifying concussions in the 90 to 95 % of cases where there is no loss of consciousness or other obvious signs of concussion.

Most mainstream discipline methods — time out, naughty steps, exclusion, shaming and loss of privileges — expect cognitive abilities from children that they just don't have Continue reading →

They may be aware of the greater risk for mood disorders such as depression and anxiety associated with sleep loss; the substantial impairment in cognitive abilities such as sustained attention, short - term memory, information processing, and school performance; or the increased risk for motor vehicle accidents that accompanies lack of sleep.

Even the most well - mannered newborns wake up 2 - 3 times in the night to eat and this continued lack of sleep can lead to short term memory loss as well as other cognitive problems.

Neurologists at the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, once found that «chronic sleep loss,» or sleeping only 4 - 6 hours a night for two weeks, «severely impairs cognitive functioning in adults.»

There are a number of things that cause short term memory loss and other cognitive problems in mothers who are either pregnant or just gave birth.

Dementia overwhelmingly affects over-65s and is characterised by a general loss of cognitive capability, including memory, attention and language.

In addition, it is unknown how often infants born without recognizable abnormalities of ZIKV infection will later develop problems (e.g., cognitive impairment, hearing loss, ocular findings), as has been seen with other congenital infections, for example, rubella.»

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

About two - thirds of people over age 90 have dementia or some less severe cognitive loss.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Brain scan study adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels are linked to dementia: Results suggest serotonin loss may be a key player in cognitive decline, not just a side - effect of Alzheimer's disease.»

Weight loss surgery can curb alterations in brain activity associated with obesity and improve cognitive function involved in planning, strategizing and organizing, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Previous studies from Johns Hopkins and other centers have shown that people with Alzheimer's disease and severe cognitive decline have severe loss of serotonin neurons, but the studies did not show whether those reductions were a cause or effect of the disease.

And in a mouse model of Alzheimer's, having more TREM2 in the brain seemed to relieve inflammation and amyloid buildup, slow the loss of neurons and preserve the animals» cognitive abilities.

As mentioned above, prolonged sleep deprivation in normal subjects induces altered states of consciousness (often described as «microsleep»), numerous brief episodes of overwhelming sleep, and loss of cognitive and motor functions.

After undergoing the complex process, nine of the 10 participants, who suffered from cognitive impairment or memory loss associated with Alzheimer's, displayed improvement in memory three to six months into the program — a joint venture between the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

Ozanimod significantly slowed the loss of brain volume compared with IFN — a hallmark of the disease that causes brain atrophy, disease progression and cognitive impairment.

SCD and MCI are considered to be early stages of the dementia process and are diagnosed based on the severity of cognitive symptoms, including memory loss and thought - and decision - making problems.

One in 150 babies in the U.S. is born with a congenital CMV infection, and of those, one in five suffers from complications, according to the CDC, which can include including hearing loss, vision loss, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairments and microcephaly.

Another troubling study showed memory loss and other cognitive declines in elderly Japanese men in Hawaii who stuck to their traditional soy - based diet, as opposed to those who switched to a more of a Western diet.

The methods might include drugs to slow the loss of connections between neurons, as well as cognitive and behavioral therapies designed to strengthen imperfect circuits.

These findings, relevant in the context of Singapore's rapidly ageing society, pave the way for future work on sleep loss and its contribution to cognitive decline, including dementia.

Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.

«Even at the sentence level of language, there is a potential loss of information over a noisy channel,» says Edward Gibson, a professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) and Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Long — term effects include restlessness, anxiety, disordered sleep, memory loss, cognitive impairment, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to Mahdi Balali — Mood of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran, who has studied Iranian chemical attack victims from the same conflict.

PET scans which use fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) as a tracer can be used for neuronal loss, and are useful when a reliable short - term prediction of cognitive decline is needed.

«Higher levels of cerebrospinal fluid predict faster cognitive loss in Parkinson's disease.»

Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.

Lin said there are several ways that healing loss may affect cognitive functions and increase risk of dementia.

«If we address hearing loss and we treat it well with things like hearing aids and counseling strategies, can we actually reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia?»

«Fat, sugar cause bacterial changes that may relate to loss of cognitive function.»

A study at Oregon State University indicates that both a high - fat and a high - sugar diet, compared to a normal diet, cause changes in gut bacteria that appear related to a significant loss of «cognitive flexibility,» or the power to adapt and adjust to changing situations.

Now we need to investigate whether these structural changes correlate with reduced cognitive function and whether neuroprotective strategies might be able to stop the progression of brain volume loss.

Parkinson's disease affects approximately 7 - 10 million people worldwide and is characterised by progressive loss of motor function, psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment.

In Alzheimer's disease, this loss of synapses occurs very early on, when people still only have mild cognitive impairment, and long before the nerve cells themselves die.

In fact, it is generally accepted that a loss of synaptic connections leads to a loss in cognitive skills.

Both unawareness of illness (anosognosia) and memory loss (known as mild cognitive impairment) can be objectively assessed using questionnaires.

A new study now shows that history of TBI (with loss of consciousness) does not appear to affect the rate of cognitive change over time for participants with normal cognition or even those with AD dementia.

«But in mice that have cognitive (timing) impairment due to loss of dopamine, we can make those mice better.

Researchers still don't fully understand how this cholesterol - processing dysfunction leads to the suite of symptoms seen in NPC patients, including abnormal motor function and loss of cognitive function.