Sentences with phrase «reported higher cognitive»

According to one study, people who exercised regularly reported higher cognitive performance compared to those who didn't exercise as much.51

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Scores on the cognitive, receptive and expressive communication and fine motor sections were highest among children who were breastfed for more than six months, the researchers reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

One high - quality program found that mothers were more likely to use appropriate limit - setting and parenting strategies that stimulated the child's cognitive skills and to report using nonviolent discipline strategies.

Other studies have shown that words that are used to express balance or nuance («except,» «but,» and so on) are associated with higher cognitive complexity, better grades and even the truthfulness with which facts are reported.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

In June, researchers reported that office workers scored higher on tests of cognitive function when the room was better ventilated, but many studies have found that background noise impairs cognitive performance.

As expected, teens who reported higher levels of interpersonal dependent stress showed higher levels of negative cognitive style and rumination at later assessments, even after the researchers took initial levels of the cognitive vulnerabilities, depressive symptoms, and sex into account.

SuperAgers — who are 80 years of age and older who have cognitive ability at least as good as people in their 50s or 60s — reported having more satisfying, high - quality relationships compared to their cognitively average, same - age peers, the study reports.

In particular, some of the findings suggest that leaves reported as unemployment and sickness are associated with higher risk of cognitive impairment indicating that these kinds of employment gaps may decrease cognitive reserve in the long run.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

Participants with the highest reported intake of carbohydrates were 1.9 times more likely to develop cognitive impairment as compared to those with the lowest consumption.

The Harvard Nurse's study reported that high consumption of cruciferous and green leafy vegetables were related to less cognitive decline.

A British study of 9,003 adult subjects reported a dose - related improvement in cognitive performance with higher levels of coffee consumption.

The Rancho Bernardo study with 1,538 participants — 890 healthy women and 638 healthy men from South California with a mean age 73 years — reported that higher caffeine consumption in a lifetime was associated with better performance in women in 6 out of 12 cognitive tests, with a trend in two other tests.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

Bringing together experts across a range of fields, the report made the case for why regular exercise crucially belongs in schools: It not only provides physical health benefits to students but also enhances their cognitive functioning, leading to higher academic performance.

This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text - based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) in 9 middle schools and 6 high schools.

U.S. students are particularly weak in performing math tasks with higher cognitive demands, such as taking real - world situations and translating them into mathematical terms, according to the OECD report.

By distilling and organizing the existing research on cognitive science and educational psychology, the reports offer teacher candidates concise summaries of high - impact practices grounded in scientific evidence and professional consensus around PK - 12 learning.

According to a report from the Public Policy Institute of California, in 2014 - 2015, San Diego County was one of the regions in the state with a higher number of students with severe disabilities — meaning students with autism, cognitive impairment, deafness - blindness, emotional disturbances, multiple disabilities and traumatic brain injury.

«When cognitive demands are high,» the researchers report, «language expectations are simplified.»

Indeed, a longitudinal Swedish study reports that «high achievers» used television as a complement to school learning, whereas «low achievers» used television as a substitute for it.16 Similarly, a study of 326 young children found that parental education is negatively related to hours watched overall.13 Other studies have found effect modification of the effects of television viewing on educational outcomes by the SES of the parents.14, 21 As a result, television viewing in a general population may serve to exacerbate disparities in cognitive outcomes between high - SES and low - SES households.

3 factors predicted failure to achieve clinical remission: a high level of initial self reported depression, a higher level of cognitive distortion, and higher hopelessness scores.

Child Well - Being Spotlight: Children Placed Outside the Home and Children Who Remain In - Home After a Maltreatment Investigation Have Similar and Extensive Service Needs (PDF - 211 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (2012) Summarizes recent research from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that indicates children reported for maltreatment have a high risk of experiencing developmental problems, cognitive problems, behavioral / emotional problems, or substance use disorders, regardless of whether they were placed in out - of - home care or remained in - home with or without receiving services.

However both subtypes of the avoidant style did not report higher levels of cognitive avoidance; the level of cognitive avoidance was even very low in the avoidant - cooperative attachment group though these differences have not been significant.

Furthermore, effort justification and cognitive dissonance, when measured as relationship length, was observed in the report of higher commitment to those previously hated.

As hypothesized, both husbands and wives had lower marital quality when their cognitive egalitarianism was discrepant from their partner, and such a discrepancy had a greater influence on wives» reports of marital quality, especially for wives with higher cognitive egalitarianism.

A sample of 972 high - school students completed self - report questionnaires assessing callous - unemotional traits, self - serving cognitive distortions and antisocial behavior.

We hypothesized that the children of African - American parents who reported more traditional authoritarian beliefs, maternal confidence, and maternal warmth would display higher levels of cognitive development and achievement at school entry.

Alternatively, fathers report higher levels of stress in relation to child externalising behaviours [39, 57], ASD symptoms [68], poor child sensory and cognitive awareness [32] and less social support [37].