Sentences with phrase «with brain performance»

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The use to describe its online products as «a personal trainer for your brain» able to improve «performance with the science of neuroplasticity, but in a way that just feels like games.»

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

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Nah, no one with even half a brain does, it was a poor team performance from a line up that should have won easily.

Following a game against Everton, Mourinho said of Shaw's performance, «He used his body with my brain.»

am not a critic of Ramsey but with that performance from the bench from Mozart even at 32 he clearly has football brain better than Ramsey and wilshere put together....

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Whether your child wants to understand where dreams come from or why animals hibernate, visit the Space Station, follow the adventures of a young radio reporter, hear folk tales, or laugh at kids comedy sketches, we have it all with live performances from Circle Round, Brains On, But Why?

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

Performance Sports Group Ltd. (NYSE: PSG)(TSX: PSG)(«Performance Sports Group» or the «Company»), a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance sports equipment and apparel, along with several leading medical experts today unveiled what the Company and presenting doctors believe could be a significant breakthrough in addressing mild traumatic brain injury («mTBI»)Performance Sports Group Ltd. (NYSE: PSG)(TSX: PSG)(«Performance Sports Group» or the «Company»), a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance sports equipment and apparel, along with several leading medical experts today unveiled what the Company and presenting doctors believe could be a significant breakthrough in addressing mild traumatic brain injury («mTBI»)Performance Sports Group» or the «Company»), a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance sports equipment and apparel, along with several leading medical experts today unveiled what the Company and presenting doctors believe could be a significant breakthrough in addressing mild traumatic brain injury («mTBI»)performance sports equipment and apparel, along with several leading medical experts today unveiled what the Company and presenting doctors believe could be a significant breakthrough in addressing mild traumatic brain injury («mTBI») in sports.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Their natural nitrates actually increase blood flow to the brain, helping with mental performance.

Early and exclusive breastfeeding helps children survive, but it also supports healthy brain development, improves cognitive performance and is associated with better educational achievement at age 5.

Among 22 patients, the researchers found enhanced memory performance in the four patients with stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex but not among those with the other brain regions stimulated.

Nervous Tissue and Computation If we accept that computers will eventually become powerful enough to simulate the mind, the question that naturally arises is: What processing rate will be necessary to yield performance on a par with the human brain?

Stimulating brain cells with light has been shown to improve mental performance in monkeys.

Draaisma derides the «forgetfulness market» and debunks the idea that memory is like a muscle whose performance can be improved with brain - training games.

Vargas - Irwin said he is optimistic that the findings could ultimately have direct application to improving brain - computer interface design and performance for patients with severe paralysis.

New research published August 17 in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests greater similarity between brain connectivity at rest and on task may be associated with better mental performance.

The brain activity was then analyzed along with participants» performance on a neuropsychological evaluation.

An offshoot of a project with performance artist Marina Abramovic, the Mutual Wave Machine invites two people at a time to sit in a dome - like structure and gaze at each other while seeing a simplified visualization of their brain activity with lights all around them.

Atypical brain activation to speech in infants with inherited risk for dyslexia impedes the development of effective connections to the mental lexicon, and thus slows the naming and reading performances.

When people know they are being observed, parts of the brain associated with social awareness and reward invigorate a part of the brain that controls motor skills, improving their performance at skilled tasks.

Follow up studies will be needed to directly determine whether the boys with these brain differences do better on performance tests.

The brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from rest to task performance, according to a new brain - imaging study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain Stimulation.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

These results support previous findings of lower academic performance among children prenatally exposed to alcohol compared to their peers, which appear to be associated with differences in brain development, and highlight the need for additional attention and support for these children.

This view of the brain started to change about 15 years ago, when Israeli neurobiologist Dov Sagi discovered that with intensive training in specific visual tasks, such as target orientation (the ability to look at a dot on the wall, look away, then look back at the dot's exact spot), people much older than 12 months could improve their performance in those tasks.

«Not only are there applications for healthy people to better realize their potential, but EEG - neurofeedback work has been extended to pathology, as in the case of children with attentional disabilities and [transcranial magnetic stimulation] for depression,» notes psychologist John Gruzelier of Goldsmiths College in London, who has been working on training musicians to control their own brain waves, thereby improving performance.

In this circumstance or when faced with tasks requiring speed, thoroughness or endurance, the performance of ADHD brains decreases dramatically compared with the brains of other children.

Many athletes credit drugs with improving their performance, but some of them may want to thank their brain instead.

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

Brain imaging (EEG) on a subset of the groups showed some evidence of neuroplasticity (i.e., brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate Brain imaging (EEG) on a subset of the groups showed some evidence of neuroplasticity (i.e., brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate time.

The pilot study found that DBS targeting frontal brain regions can reduce the overall performance decline typically seen in people with mild or early stage Alzheimer's, Scharre said.

By monitoring the participants» brain activity as they were presented with incentives and then performed a skilled movement task, the researchers found that performance is influenced by a brain area called the ventral striatum.

Overview: The current study assesses spelling performance for two patients with ALS using an intracortical Brain computer interface (BCI) and a specific algorithm (refit - KF for cursor movement and an HMM for click selection).

«By understanding how we naturally use eye movements to compensate for declining areas of the brain, we could tap into this strategy as an intervention to boost memory performance among healthy older adults and adults with memory disorders,» says Dr. Ryan.

«Our work aims at answering questions such as whether the brain of children with better physical fitness is different from that of children with worse physical fitness and if this affects their academic performance,» Ortega explains.

A convenience sample of 54 patients with severe brain injury, including 23 in a vegetative state and 31 in a minimally conscious state, underwent functional MRI as a means of evaluating their performance on motor and spatial imagery tasks.

The use of legal substances to enhance physical performance is thus relatively often associated with the consumption of substances to improve mental performance, just as there is a correlation between the use of illicit substances for both doping and brain doping.

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Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

Pandarinath, Nuyujukian et al. set out to study the performance of an implanted brain - computer interface in three people with varying forms of paralysis and focused specifically on a typing task.

During his time as an undergraduate student, he was a member of two cognitive neuroscience laboratories, where he worked on research studies examining how structural differences in the brain correlate with performance on cognitive tests.

A recent article by Kessler Foundation researchers describes Actual Reality ™ as a new tool for assessing performance of activities of everyday life (ADL) in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Also speaking at the event are Dr. Ken Lacovara (Insights from the biggest dinosaur skeleton ever found), Dr. Roy Hamilton (Enhancing human mental performance with noninvasive brain stimulation), Dr. George Brainard (Better lighting for better sleep in space), Denise Wong (Tiny bio-robots for microscale medicine and engineering), Dr. Melinda Keefe (The chemistry of art conservation), and Dr. Michel Barsoum (Molding conductive «clay» into the next generation of batteries)

They will also work to improve the understanding of neurophysiological adaptations — how the brain responds to stimulus and relays messages to the body — and neural plasticity — the brain's ability to form new connections to compensate for an injury — and their relation with balance dysfunction and sensorimotor performance.

LONDON (July 16, 2017)-- Researchers have found cell receptors abnormally overexpressed in post-mortem brains of those with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, and that they can be inhibited in animal models to clear toxic protein buildup, reduce brain inflammation, and improve cognitive performance.