Sentences with phrase «of mental tests»

Before and after the supplementation, the researchers subjected the students to a whole battery of mental tests that you would expect to cause mental stress.

The research team from Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City set to prove their theory by putting 21 mums - to - be through a range of mental tests a few weeks before their baby was due.

Not exact matches

Jim Maloney, CEO at UFS, is an ardent advocate of the Prevue, which consists of an hour - long test in the classic sense: there are words to unscramble, math problems, mental rotation tasks.

One study found that after participants completed ten minutes of short, periodic sprints, «performance on the Stroop Test — a long - established measure of mental control, or what psychologists call «executive function» — seemed to be enhanced immediately... and 45 minutes afterwards.»

Test some of these mental - wrestling techniques and see if you can better wrap your mind around your tasks.

Cigna is testing the integration of «mental wellness» into medical care at doctors» offices in Denver, New Jersey and Virginia and plans to expand the pilot to ten office by the end of the year.

If you've been thinking of your mental horsepower solely in terms of high school report cards or a single number from an IQ test, you're probably selling yourself short.

Startups are emotional roller coasters that test the mental fortitude of founders.

The six - month selection process weeds out roughly 80 percent of its volunteers, with every day serving as both a test and an opportunity by push them to the brink of mental annihilation.

You will be constantly kept on your toes with varying challenges each and every day, so if you're the type of person who fancies the occasional test of mental fortitude, then this is the career for you.

Regression on cognitive tests by drinking categories Controls: age, gender, education, health history, mental health treatment, family history of dementia); results for exdrinkers same as for drinkers

But the whole point of BUDS training is to test a soldier's will and mental fortitude, and weed out those that are not mentally tough enough to be SEALS.

Because every minute of BUDS training is a test of mental fortitude, SEALS have to constantly use self - talk, sometimes every few minutes so they can have the grit and will to keep going.

Numerous traders need a demo account to familiarize with the trading platform, to experiment a few trading strategies, to perceive how prices act in this present reality and to test how their own mental trading theories work while they are under pressure to hit the right choice if the market prices of an asset hit the target or when the time lapses.

The Catholic Church and exorcists have reiterated so many times that before they do the rite the person has been tested by doctors and psychologists to rule out some sort of physical or mental illness (whether it may be an illness that no one has discovered or coined / cured is moot).

Also, as noted, I apologized for those times when my anger got the better of me but in hindsight, I see I was exhibiting signs of prologued trauma and abuse not signs of mental illness (like most of NYC I got tested post 9/11 and there's no signs of mental illness though my childhood growing up with two alcoholic parents who died before I was 18 does produce some triggers that I now know how to manage so I don't let my anger get the better of me).

A teacher of psychiatry has observed that the two great commandments of Jesus provide a test of mental health.

Once all the disclaimers have been made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth - claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.

The company a Godly man kept constituted a test of his regeneration: a truly Godly man, Increase said, delighted only in the company of other Godly men; he resented wasting his time with sinners; he did not want them to throw his mental frame out of joint.

They all work off the definition in the DSM which has lowered gays off it being a mental illness not by any new tests but by the decision of one Physc to make a social statement.

There is no more revealing test of the mental health impact of a religious approach than its handling of sex and aggressiveness.

I'm going to sound like Arsene, but it's true — this game is truly a test of mental capability.

This is the goal of all the mental testing

It's all a mental test to see how you handle the pressure and the stress of a four - day interview process.

It's a test of mental processing.

While most people focus on the physical test results, the Wonderlic puts the mental makeup of draft prospects to the test.

All his mental strength will be tested now at the start of this back nine, which features two par - 5s over the final four holes.

If we didn't win today, we knew that we were out of it [the title race] so it was a mental test for the side.»

«I think the quality [from the team] was there today and we had all kinds of tests because we were 1 - 0 down after having started well, so it was a good mental test.

After Exter passed a battery of mental and physical tests, the Penguins» AHL affiliate in Wilkes - Barre, Pa., signed him on Dec. 24 and sent him to Wheeling of the ECHL.

Bournemouth are on the slide and their mental toughness will be severely tested here against this well drilled West Brom side who've scored plenty of goals on home soil this season.

«The mental test was of course important.

If you have not engaged in clinical practice or attended in - service trainings or university - based coursework specific to the promotion of infant mental health, you will find the test challenging.

Of all the mental, physical and practical preparations you have been undergoing since the second line appeared on your pregnancy test — one that may be bringing about a plethora of emotions is choosing the perfect name for your soon - to - be new arrivaOf all the mental, physical and practical preparations you have been undergoing since the second line appeared on your pregnancy test — one that may be bringing about a plethora of emotions is choosing the perfect name for your soon - to - be new arrivaof emotions is choosing the perfect name for your soon - to - be new arrival.

They also scored lower on the Bayley test of mental development (Berlin et al 2009).

Instead we found that a shorter duration of breast feeding was associated with lower scores on mental developmental tests both at 13 months and at 5 years of age.

Other studies show that babies with lower levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) in their blood do better at mental and motor ability tests.

More than eight out of ten GPs say they have patients who have developed mental health problems due to a controversial benefits test, according to new polling released today by the charity Rethink Mental Illness.

Today was always going to be the biggest test of support for Barwell's bill, which seeks to end the practice of forcing an MP's resignation if they are sectioned under mental health laws for more than six months.

Here's an idea for gun control, no nutbag Democrats should be allowed to purchase any type of weapon and they should pass a mental stability test to vote.

Indeed Natasha Devon (who is co-founder of the appropriately named Self - Esteem Team) fell out with her government masters when she weighed in to the Kids Strike row by declaring «the culture of testing and academic pressure is detrimental to mental health».

This gentleman in question ought to be IMMEDIATELY called for questioning and punitive measures taken against him, further, he must be made to undergo a medical test to confirm or otherwise his mental fitness to don the uniform of the Ghana Police.

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

Accidental Discharge: Psychiatric test for serving Policemen — IGP Inspector - General of Police (I - G), Mr. Solomon Arase, has said that the Nigeria Police Force is considering conducting psychiatric test on recruits and serving officers to determine their mental capabilities.

Early one morning last July, Genise had taken a little white capsule containing the psychedelic as part of a medically supervised study to test whether it could ease the mental anguish of people with terminal cancer.

Examining the brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.

According to research by Art Kramer, a psychologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana - Champaign, and others, from our mid-20s we lose up to 1 point per decade on a test called the mini mental state examination (see graph).

They were more cheerful, confident, relaxed, even - tempered, and orderly and scored better on memory and concentration tests — and there was no evidence of deterioration of their personalities or their mental acuity.

At the end of the eight weeks, the yoga group was speedier and more accurate on tests of information recall, mental flexibility and task - switching than it had been before the intervention.

Using neuropsychological testing to assess cognitive performance, the researchers found a relationship between the amount of white matter injury and changes in reaction time and the ability to switch between mental tasks.