Sentences with phrase «on cognitive changes»

But just before the final data on the last patient was collected in October, Lilly changed the outcomes so that the drug's success would rest solely on the cognitive changes, with the functional ones as a secondary measure of success.

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In five different scenarios, they measured their subjects on a set of cognitive tasks, and controlled for the formality or casualness of their clothing, instructing subjects to bring «clothing you would wear to a job interview» to change into.

Luke argues InteraXon's technology can prevent accidents from happening by identifying changes in cognitive performance early on and alerting drivers when they lose focus.

«We are in a labor market where more and more emphasis is placed on cognitive skills and education - based skills, the changing economy,» explains Harry Holzer, a labor economist who is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University.

But what never changes is the department's focus on enhancing kids» physical, cognitive, social and emotional development through their participation.

The many textures and responsive rattle movement on this changing time toy give baby a whole range if stimuli that help develop baby's motor skills and enhance their auditory and cognitive skills.

This workbook also functions as a layperson's primer on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping parents teach kids how to reframe their cognitions and change their behaviors to feel more calm and in control.»

Therapy treatments rooted in cognitive research focus on helping people change these negative thinking patterns and replace such thoughts with more positive and realistic ones.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

The BLSA has been connecting the dots on the physical and cognitive changes that take place as we age since 1958.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

In addition to its effect on chronic tics, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can change the brain function of people with Tourette syndrome.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.

It could record information on how the mood changes and provide professional staff with feedback over a period of time, which would be very useful when studying the evolution of particular cognitive impairments.»

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short - term form of therapy that focuses on changing how a person thinks about and reacts to specific situations.

Meaningful progress in cognitive neuroscience depends on mapping patterns of brain activity, which are constantly and rapidly changing with every experience we have.

The researchers recommended that future studies should collect information on the number of past TBIs (including mild TBIs, as well as exposure to sub-concussive trauma through contact sports and other activities) along with time since TBI, which may play a significant role in cognitive change.

The researchers found that they experience brain and cognitive changes «on a minority of measures» in brain imaging and psychological tests.

Cognitive therapy may help some psychopaths; he suggests clinicians could measure changes in these faulty connections to home in on the best strategies to stimulate empathy.

«Because both slightly lower serum sodium levels and mild changes in cognitive function are common occurrences with advancing age, future research on this topic is important — including determining whether correcting lower sodium levels affects cognitive function.»

Those findings suggest the cognitive changes brought on by tDCS may require more treatment sessions to have noticeable improvements in daily functioning, according to Dr. Charvet.

Comprising two comprehensive systems - based reviews written by a distinguished group of experts, 1,2 it collates information on common changes observed in cats in a wide range of health areas of interest — from musculoskeletal system health through to cognitive and behavioural health.

Contrary to the poetic nature of «righting past wrongs» that some attribute to the de-extinction of passenger pigeons, I view the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon as a project seeded in our present and future; it is a pivotal exercise in thought stressing the recognition that we are the drivers of change on this planet and that we have the cognitive ability to take responsibility for the direction of that change.

Researchers have proposed a radical change in the way Alzheimer's disease is defined, focusing on biological changes in the body, rather than clinical symptoms such as memory loss and cognitive decline.

The grants will focus on Alzheimer's disease and on age - related cognitive change — changes in thinking, learning, and memory that can come with growing older.

The NIA provides information on age - related cognitive change and neurodegenerative disease specifically at its Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center at www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers.

Although increased age was associated with specific influences on speed in cross-sectional comparisons, and in memory change in longitudinal comparisons among older adults, most of the relations between age and cognitive functioning in both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons were manifested as general influences shared with other cognitive measures.

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But a type of therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-- which focuses on changing behavior, rather than talking about your childhood, for instance — can be an effective adjuvant to or even substitute for drugs.

What it is: Cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT), a short - term, results - oriented form of counseling, focuses on changing unhelpful behaviors and thoughts — like I deserve to eat a piece of cake because I've had a hard day.

Researchers haven't conclusively proven that cognitive decline in middle age predicts Alzheimer's or other dementias, but on balance the evidence suggests that small changes in midlife mental function can become magnified later in life, says Francine Grodstein, Sc.D., an epidemiologist and associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston.

«What everyone wants is a medicine that not just boosts cognitive function on a short - term basis, but also changes that slope and slows the rate of decline enough that people never develop dementia,» Dr. Lipton says.

Some experts maintain that talk therapy is more effective in children, but the little research that exists on the subject suggests that cognitive - behavioral approaches may be especially effective in adults, who are likely to be more aware of their thinking patterns (and how to change them).

Brain and Cognitive Science and tenured professor who teaches The Psychology of Eating) shows the neuroscience on how we can implement dietary changes long - term.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), a style of therapy based on changing ingrained and habitual thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that may be contributing to low mood, is one of the main therapeutic modalities for depression and is supported by a number of studies.

All of the brain training and cognitive stuff that I worked on, the same exact statement about when you change something at the cellular level.

Recent evidence indicates a clear association between changes in the microbiota and cognitive behaviours and there is increasing evidence on the effects of supplementing with probiotics on improving cognitive disorders (3).

In another study on 4,809 participants aged 65 and older, the relationship between consumption of tea and coffee and changes in cognitive function by gender was examined.

One study that focused specifically on the relationship between exercise intensity and BDNF concentration levels found no significant changes in BDNF levels after the low - intensity exercise, but significantly elevated BDNF levels after high - intensity exercise.13 Ferris, L.T., et al. «The Effect of Burst Exercise on Serum Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels and Cognitive Function,» Medicine and... continue

Some of these changes rely on altering how you think about or perceive a situation, the component known as cognitive therapy.

Drawing on Dr. Passero's medical training and clinical expertise and utilizing a wide range of in - depth scientific research from other leading experts in the field, 4 Weeks to a Better Brain breaks down the research to make it easy for you to identify your cognitive health risk factors so you can protect and restore optimal brain function — with specific dietary and lifestyle changes that anyone can easily embrace.

Though norepinephrine is certainly involved in a variety of cognitive processes [200], little has been done to directly examine the influence of norepinephrine on acute exercise - induced changes in cognitive functioning.

Gardner draws on decades of cognitive research and explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers ways to influence that process.

Lessons on discoveries that learning changes the structure and function of the brain can engage students, especially when combined with explicit instruction on the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies that guide them to learn how to learn (Wilson & Conyers, 2013).

Under the auspices of NBU, the Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science conducts interdisciplinary research on the human mind and seeks to further challenge and change the education system in Bulgaria.

«Today - where we can access content on Google, where routine cognitive skills are being digitised or outsourced, and where jobs are changing so rapidly - accumulating knowledge matters a lot less and success has a lot more to do with ways of thinking; creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, [and] judgement.»