Sentences with phrase «positive cognitive effects»

The authors point out that creatine supplementation has previously been shown to enhance memory and reduce fatigue in calculation tests, and their own study adds to the weight of evidence supporting the positive cognitive effects of creatine.

However i do feel great, i have noticed a lot of positive cognitive effects, and my face is a little slimmer (people have mentioned it) but it just gets frustrating that i haven't seen any changes in the one place i was hoping to see some progress (my stomach)

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In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

Play is a great opportunity for developing language and vocabulary, facilitating cognitive exploration and growth, and promoting the positive effects of joy!

Studies have shown that getting enough omega - 3s in utero and during infancy (either through breastfeeding or supplemented formula) has a positive effect on a child's vision and cognitive development.

The study did show some positive short - term cognitive effects of breastfeeding, but no long - term advantages.

These findings are all consistent with the growing body of literature on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on neurological, cognitive, emotional and social development, as well as physical health.38 Although some studies have found no relation between physical punishment and negative outcomes, 35 and others have found the relation to be moderated by other factors, 12 no study has found physical punishment to have a long - term positive effect, and most studies have found negative effects.17

Relatedly for mothers, breastfeeding can have positive health benefits, including anti-inflammatory effects, increased sleep, decreased stress and possibly better mood, thus potentially helping to support parent engagement and care.33 Second, it is also possible that the positive effects on child cognitive development may play a role.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

The goal is to determine whether «the inhibitory effect of cortisol on addictive cravings might also have positive implications for nicotine, alcohol or gambling addiction,» says Dominique de Quervain, Director of the research platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Basel.

Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress - related disorders.

She also emphasized that cognitive training is a second option when compared to physical fitness programs, which have been linked to positive effects on cognition, brain function, and brain structure.

This is the first study to demonstrate that behavioral interventions can have a positive effect on brain function in people with cognitive disability caused by MS, an important step in validating the clinical utility of cognitive rehabilitation.

«The idea is that during evolution these variants that have positive effects on cognitive function were selected, but at a cost — in this case an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»

While small studies in humans with cognitive impairment have suggested that BHB could improve memory, senior scientist and Buck President and CEO, Eric Verdin MD, says this is the first study in aging mammals which details the positive effects of BHB on memory and lifespan.

Further study is needed to develop strategies for extending the positive effects of this cognitive intervention in rehabilitative care.»

It was also clear that reading had a positive effect on brain power in those first three years — further suggesting that the survival advantage was due to the «immersive nature that helps maintain cognitive status,» the authors wrote.

Earlier research of the flavonoids» positive effects, especially anthocyanidins, are restricted to very small studies in older individuals or animal models, but have revealed that cognitive function is improved with greater intake of foods with these compounds.

«Some of the benefits of coffee seem to be linked to the caffeine content, like the positive effects on cognitive function and the decreased risk for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's,» he says.

It keeps your skin young and prevents the premature aging process, not to mention it has a positive effect on cognitive performance.

This research has positive implications for the effect of selenium on cognitive function.

There are numerous positive effects of using exogenous ketones like avoiding keto flu, improving athletic performance, cognitive benefits, improved focus, speeding up ketosis.

In fact, clinical studies have demonstrated its positive effect on mild cognitive impairment.

For example, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) had small positive effects on disability and catastrophic thinking.66 Exercise therapy reduced pain and improved function in chronic low back pain54; improved function and reduced pain in osteoarthritis of the knee51 and hip52; and improved well - being, fibromyalgia symptoms, and physical function in fibromyalgia.48 Multimodal and multidisciplinary therapies helped reduce pain and improve function more effectively than single modalities.55, 67 Multiple guidelines recommended acetaminophen as first - line pharmacotherapy for osteoarthritis68 - 73 or for low back pain74 and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as first - line treatment for osteoarthritis or low back pain70, 74; first - and second - line drugs for neuropathic pain include anticonvulsants (gabapentin or pregabalin), tricyclic antidepressants, and serotonin - norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).75 - 78 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been associated with hepatic, gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular risks.63, 73,79

Because of the effective use of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizures (see above), it has been suggested that it may also improve the clinical status in brain injury, especially by reducing the incidence of long - term consequences, such as epilepsy.79 Positive effects of a ketogenic diet have also been reported in reducing the cortical contusion volume in an age - dependent manner in an animal model of cortical injury, which is related to the maturation - dependent variability in brain ketone metabolism.92 These findings were also supported by the demonstration that a ketogenic diet reduced post-traumatic cognitive and motor function impairment, at least in a rat model.93

Creatine supplementation had a positive effect on sleep deprived individuals in terms of both mood and performance in physical and cognitive tests.

These processes, in turn, appear to have a positive effect on cognitive development.»

When those two factors are taken into account, the positive effect of cognitive skills on annual economic growth becomes somewhat smaller, but is still 0.63 percentage points per half of a standard deviation of test scores.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

The evaluation not only shows the positive effects of arts integration in schools on student literacy, but also on other cognitive and personal outcomes such as enjoyment of the arts, critical thinking, and creativity.

In the review, Mindfulness - Based Interventions for Improving Cognition, Academic Achievement, Behavior and Socioemotional Functioning of Primary and Secondary Students, the authors found that mindfulness - based interventions have a statistically significant positive effect on cognitive and socioemotional processes for students, but that they do not improve behavior or academic performance.

The initial positive effect on students» self - concept can not be attributed to increased growth in independence or cognitive factors.

Relative to children in the control group, Head Start participants showed positive effects in numerous cognitive skills during their Head Start years including letter - naming, vocabulary, letter - word identification, and applied math problems.

Your veterinarian may also recommend adjustments to your dog's diet as well as nutritional supplements like Omega - 3, vitamin E and C, selenium, beta carotene, and L - carnitine, all known to have a positive effect on cognitive function in dogs.

A food with high levels of appropriate antioxidants has been shown to slow the rate of cognitive decline in older dogs, and the positive effects of antioxidants on cognition happen fairly rapidly when the dog is a responder to this approach.

Multiple studies on the therapeutic effects of «expressive writing» like poetry found that penning unexpressed feelings for less than an hour a day has positive effects on «frequency of physician visits, immune function, stress hormones, blood pressure, and a number of social, academic, and cognitive variables.»

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

With a relatively larger (albeit still inadequate) body of literature, UCLA / Lovaas — based intervention and EIBI variant studies have revealed positive shifts in language, adaptive, cognitive, and educational outcomes, but our confidence (strength of evidence) in that effect is low because of the need for additional, confirmatory research, a lack of high - quality RCTs, and no studies that have directly compared effects of promising manualized treatment approaches.

Despite contradictory earlier findings about the effects of child care on cognitive and linguistic development, more recent research has consistently documented the enduring and positive effects of high - quality child care.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13

Programs that increased both mother's employment and family income led to small but positive effects on children aged 2 to 5, particularly in cognitive skills, behaviour, health and family well - being.

However, these positive effects are not large and appear to diminish over time, suggesting that reducing income poverty by itself is not sufficient to improve children's cognitive functioning.3, 4,5

Fischer and colleagues [21] proposed a theoretical framework that extends socio - cognitive models of learning [22] and the more recent General Learning Model [23], and explains elevated levels of risk taking in relation to media exposure not only through priming effects of risk - positive cognitions and emotions, but also through changes in the self - concept, due to (1) situational cues in the media that risk taking is rewarding instead of potentially dangerous, (2) through habitation processes and changes in risk - related social norms, and (3) through identification processes that are stronger in active vs. passive media consumption.

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's development.14

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

The results of this study are consistent with those obtained in Australia and suggest that the FRIENDS preventative cognitive behaviour therapy programme does have a positive effect on the emotional resilience of 9 — 10 year old children.

Psychological professionals and researchers have studied the positive effects of play on cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in children.

Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high - quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short - and long - term positive effects on children's cognitive and social development... A growing body of research indicates that more developmentally appropriate teaching in preschool... predicts greater success in the early grades

The article examined adolescent offspring of depressed parents, who are at high risk for experiencing depressive disorders themselves, to determine whether the positive effects of a group cognitive - behavioral prevention (CBP) program extended to longer - term follow - up.

Studies have shown that when fathers have positive relationships with their children, it can have positive effects on their children's behavior, social skills, cognitive development, and academic achievement.