Sentences with phrase «promote successful aging»

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It promotes successful cooperation between chemistry disciplines and the scientific and personal exchange of chemists of all ages and from all disciplines.

This study adds a trait that can be looked at in the quest to find factors that promote successful mental aging, Silverman suggested.

Our well educated Head Start teachers and home visitors create high - quality learning environments and promote successful curriculum implementation that supports positive educational and social outcomes for children ages 2.9 to 5.

A coordinated system that grows the knowledge and competencies of individuals who provide care and education to children ages birth to 8 - years, promotes the development of successful careers in early care and education, and strengthens early childhood programs to support healthy development and learning outcomes for children.

Human neuroscience and genetic approaches hold great promise for discovering the bases for successful aging and new ways to promote positive plasticity.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.