Sentences with phrase «with cognitive control»

Those making this decision typically employed the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a brain region associated with cognitive control.

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The strength, stamina, and conditioning, combined with the exceptional physical and cognitive skills needed to consistently take a race car to the extreme edge of performance and control — that's what makes a race car driver an athlete.

And then, with all the cognitive manipulative tools at their disposal, they can use their God - talk power to use God as a remote control.

The author of «How Children Succeed,» Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have less to do with cognitive skills and more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self - control.

As they grow older, barring a physical or learning disability, children will be expected to progress in cognitive and physical development, be ready to take on more responsibility, have more self - control and be able to interact socially with peers and be figuring out how to understand more complex concepts.

And yet the problem with trying to put numbers on non-cognitive qualities is that we don't have measures for grit or self - control that are as reliable as the standardized tests are for cognitive skills.

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

These include parent education to help parents better understand and engage with their child, behavior modification to improve behavior and achievement motivation, relaxation training and biofeedback to improve impulsivity and emotional control, simple cognitive exercises to improve executive functioning, social skills training to improve relationships with adults and peers and cognitive behavioral therapy to improve problem solving skills and build self - esteem.

However, available research (e.g., waitlist - controlled pilot studies) suggests that behavioral / cognitive - behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are effective for treating SM.

The Effect of Skin - to - Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care) Shortly After Birth on the Neurobehavioral Responses of the Term Newborn: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Sari Goldstein Ferber and Imad R. Makhoul Pediatrics 2004; 113; 858 - 865 - DOI: 10.1542 / peds.113.4.858 This information is current as of March 25, 2007 The original version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located at: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/858 Background: The method of skin - to - skin contact (kangaroo care [KC]-RRB- has shown physiologic, cognitive, and emotional gains for preterm infants; however, KC has not been studied adequately in term newborns.

This was the first time that anyone had proved in a randomized controlled trial that exercise could improve mental functioning in people with some cognitive problems.

That control lies with the brain's executive functions, processes that handle attention, inhibition, working memory and cognitive flexibility and are also involved in reasoning, problem - solving and planning.

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

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.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

Half of the women took part in a smoking cessation program consisting of emotion regulation treatment (ERT) combined with standard cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT), while the others received CBT and a control treatment consisting of health and lifestyle education.

Although the question can not be answered definitively, other analyses have linked lower dementia risk to better control of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol, and by building up «cognitive reserve» with more education.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

«This is where we found the most pronounced difference between those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and family history group and the two control groups.»

The experts emphasize the importance of the brain areas related with attention control in the control of movements, which «may also suggest some therapeutic routes,» such as complementing «mobility therapies based on physiotherapy with another type of cognitive training that increases the attention of patients.»

The control group received clinic - based counseling or cognitive behavior therapy, a common short - term treatment for depression, along with a variety of other interventions, including medication, support groups, and marital and family counseling.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Drug Abuse stress the potential for long - term cognitive impairment, problems with attention and coordination and other risk - taking behaviors due to heavy marijuana use.

Although several large studies have shown that α - synuclein levels are lower in the CSF of PD patients and those with related synucleinopathies compared to controls, its role in cognitive decline and dementia had been unexplored.

«Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Mindfulness - based Stress Reduction for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Effects on Cancer - related Cognitive Impairment,» published online in advance of print in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship, is the first randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of mindfulness - based stress reduction, known as MBSR, on fatigued breast and colorectal cancer survivors, the majority of whom had been treated with chemotherapy.

In a test of cognitive control, researchers found that repeatedly pairing a specific face, such as this photo of Leonardo DiCaprio, with the wrong name primed participants to focus entirely on the face when identifying the person in the image.

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) significantly improves tumor control in the brain after SRS, yet because of its association with cognitive decline, its role in the treatment of patients with brain metastases remains controversial.

[LEFT] Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a significantly reduced ability to memorize faces in comparison to healthy controls (HCs).

In three new, unpublished studies, Anderson and colleagues found that playing action video games is associated with better visuospatial attention skills, but also with reduced proactive cognitive control.

Hye and his colleagues analysed 26 proteins in blood from 1,148 people, including 476 people with Alzheimer's, 220 with mild cognitive impairment and 452 elderly healthy controls.

The findings, published in the journal Brain, are based on studies of around 60 Alzheimer's patients at Skåne University Hospital and a control group consisting of 30 people with no cognitive impairment.

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

It helps with tasks like impulse control, cognitive flexibility, and executive function.

They compared and analyzed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain images of 1,680 healthy individuals and 884 patients with schizophrenia from 11 research institutes participating in Cognitive Genetics Collaborative Research Organization (COCORO), and examined the differences between schizophrenia and healthy controls in the subcortical regional volumes and their asymmetries.

We found that the neural reaction to pain in children of depressed mothers stops earlier than in controls, in an area related to socio - cognitive processing, so that children of depressed mothers seem to reduce mentalizing - related processing of others» pain, perhaps because of difficulty in regulating the high arousal associated with observing distress in others,» said Prof. Ruth Feldman, director of the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab and the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood Community Clinic at Bar - Ilan University and lead author of the study.

«We also showed that a specific form of exercise targeting the cognitive control of gait — combined treadmill training with a Virtual Reality representation of obstacles in a path — leads to a significantly lower fall rate in Parkinson's patients.

Increased serotonin levels in the striatum are known to increase cognitive and social control and also reduce aggression whereas low levels are linked with underdeveloped social skills.

Bernard encouraged anyone interested in getting involved in the field to look into the National Institute of Health's various trials, which require older people with healthy cognitive function to serve in control groups.

But Amer and his colleagues found that people with reduced cognitive control had an easier time thinking of creative solutions to problems, and they were better at noticing patterns in the world around them.

John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training chairs Workshop 6: Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional activity.

In trance, brain networks displayed notable reconfigurations, including increased connectivity in regions associated with internal thought (the default mode's posterior cingulate cortex) and cognitive control (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and insula), as well as decreased connectivity within the brainstem and auditory pathway.

But it also plays cognitive roles too, helping us with decision - making, controlling impulses, regulating emotions and the intensity of our feelings for other people.

Title: Modafinil combined with cognitive training is associated with improved learning in healthy volunteers - A randomised controlled Trial Author: J. Gilleen et al..

Methods: This was a retrospective multi-centric case - control study, involving seven... Centers for Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Italy, on 448 consecutive patients aged 65 years old or older affected with AD.

Third, two other randomised controlled trials of homocysteine - lowering treatments have shown effects on cognition: a trial in which normal participants with baseline tHcy levels > 13 µmol / L were treated with folic acid (0.8 mg / d) for three years showed a beneficial effect on several cognitive tests [44].

Using functional neuroimaging, they demonstrated that the prospect of monetary reward stimulates the fronto - striatal network, resulting in the reduction of cognitive fatigue in individuals with MS and healthy controls.

To determine whether supplementation with B vitamins that lower levels of plasma total homocysteine can slow the rate of brain atrophy in subjects with mild cognitive impairment in a randomised controlled trial (VITACOG, ISRCTN 94410159).

The study examined the cognitive performance of 90 patients with a first episode depression, and compared them to 40 healthy controls.

The researchers used the fMRI scans to examine regions of the brain that are associated with auditory processing, pleasure and reward, and cognitive control.