Sentences with phrase «take cognition tests»

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A player with suspected concussion is now taken off the pitch for a series of cognition, balance and memory tests; if the player passes they can return to the action after just 5 minutes.

Tim Hasledon takes a postoperative cognition test in an Ontario, Canada, hospital as part of a study to compare mental status before and after a surgery.

However, as is true of most biological mechanisms, context must be taken into account: acute administration of insulin improves performance on tests of memory and cognition, but chronically elevated insulin levels have the opposite effect.4, 42,43 This is akin to the pathology of T2D, in which normal, acute doses of insulin help regulate glucose uptake, but chronically elevated levels lead to insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, and the attendant inflammation and vascular damage.

Such practice effects are commonly reported in neuropsychological testing and must be taken into account in the design of studies focusing on cognition and on repeated testing in a clinical context.

Although not specifically tested, these findings are in line with early socio - cognitive models of learning through experience or observation [22], [55] the notion that repeated exposure to risk - glorifying media may instigate risk taking behaviors by the activation of positive risk - related cognitions, beliefs and behavioral scripts [23] and additionally, through changes in the self - concept related to risk - tasking [21].