Sentences with phrase «with cognitive tests»

This strongly suggests that there may have been issues with the cognitive testing methodology or sensitivity of the study generally, and that the cognitive results ought to be taken as inconclusive.»

(At DiscoverOrg, we screen all applicants with a cognitive test.)

In Table 4, we give fully adjusted associations of any and exclusive breastfeeding with all cognitive test scores at ages 3 and 7 years.

While the treatment did have some favorable effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit compared with placebo.

Mario Piacentini, lead OECD analyst on this initiative, said that «with this cognitive test, we are really trying to look at how 15 - year - olds can process critically information on key sustainability issues that matter for the world at large and for their own life.

Not exact matches

While cognitive tests have a slightly closer correlation with job success, personality tests are useful both as a basis for interview questions and for subsequent development.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Study participants who sat at a desk piled with papers, for instance, reported feeling more frustrated and fatigued and took 10 % longer to perform a simple cognitive matching test.

When the twins were given cognitive tests after sleep deprivation, those with the gene variant did better, making 40 % fewer errors.

Older subjects with greater intakes of fruits and vegetables, and the corresponding nutrients vitamin C and folate, have been shown to perform better on cognitive tests (Ortega et al., 1997).

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

Cognitive function was measured with a battery of seven tests: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), word list learning, digit span, clock drawing, figure copying, and Stroop and verbal fluency tests.

In one study, researchers found that supplementing with this vitamin for a year helped men perform significantly better in general cognitive tests compared to those who received a placebo.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

The development of computerized neurocognitive tests such as ImPACT have been a big advance in terms of making sure an athlete has recovered their cognitive function necessary to return to play or work, but the usual and primary treatment remains rest, with follow - up testing using the ImPACT paradigm, and return to play or work following the algorithm of the ImPACT program based on test results.

It looked at how fathers interacted with their babies at three months of age and found that, more than 20 months later, children with the most engaged and interactive fathers performed better in cognitive tests.

Despite their increasingly widespread use, computerized tests faces many of the same challenges as with use of traditional paper - and - pencil neuropsychological tests, and, because they do not test all the cognitive domains that some specific pencil - and - paper tests measure, have other limitations, including:

The imaging changes also strongly correlated with the number of head hits (self - reported by the athletes in a diary), the symptoms experienced, and independent cognitive tests, said lead author Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at URMC.

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.

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

Our results are consistent with several larger studies3 - 14 in various communities in developed countries, using a number of developmental tests, which have shown a positive association between breast feeding and cognitive development of the child, even after adjustment for confounding factors.

The study, appearing in the journal Child Development, indicates that infants receiving formula supplemented with DHA performed better on a cognitive test than infants who were given formula without it.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

They have secured funding from the German government, and after clearing regulatory hurdles, they will begin testing the effects of THC in elderly adults with mild cognitive impairments.

When the young animals were successfully weaned, researchers gave them a series of tests to gauge their fear response, along with their cognitive, memory and social skills.

Six months after the cardiac arrest, half of the patients had died, and the survivors were followed up with cognitive screening tests.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

Tests revealed that these deletions are more common in people with schizophrenia or cognitive impairments.

To conduct the study, researchers started with two groups of chimps: one with little exposure to social and cognitive testing and no trading experience, and one with extensive bartering practice and language training.

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.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to manipulate the Tetris blocks mentally with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

On a 30 - point test that evaluates for mild cognitive impairment, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pcognitive impairment, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pCognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pregnancy.

Particularly interesting would be the inclusion of a more comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests, so that the association of volunteering with the risks of various forms of dementia and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, could be ascertained,» the report concluded.

In this study, 11 stroke patients underwent neuropsychological testing and neuroimaging, which enabled investigators to correlate their cognitive deficits with respect to lesion location.

Sum scores to depict lower body and upper body muscle strength were calculated separately, and cognitive function was assessed using the CERAD neuropsychological test battery with calculated total score.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

In terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function tests.

«Multiple measures of sleep apnea severity directly correlated with poorer performance on several cognitive tests,» said co-first author Anna Kratz, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

In the study, 138 junior and senior high school cheerleaders with concussions underwent pre-season baseline neurocognitive testing and completed at least one follow - up evaluation within 7 days of injury using Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (Itesting and completed at least one follow - up evaluation within 7 days of injury using Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ITesting (ImPACT).

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to mentally manipulate the Tetris blocks with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

The protocol is currently being tested in the population with cognitive impairment caused by TBI.

«The cognitive performance that we see in those patients with Parkinson's disease who are tested when seated or lying down in fact may underestimate their cognitive problems in real life, when they are standing up and going about their business of daily activities.

With this setup, the experimenters could then test how hungry the subjects were some time later, and tease apart the purely physiological aspects of hunger (having to do with the volume consumed) from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to do with impressions and judgments about what was consumWith this setup, the experimenters could then test how hungry the subjects were some time later, and tease apart the purely physiological aspects of hunger (having to do with the volume consumed) from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to do with impressions and judgments about what was consumwith the volume consumed) from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to do with impressions and judgments about what was consumwith impressions and judgments about what was consumed).

After administering PET scans to 4000 people previously diagnosed with either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and treated for Alzheimer's to test for the presence of amyloid plaque, only 53.3 % of patients with MCI and 70.5 % with dementia tested positive.

A 2011 study found that black students performed worse on cognitive tests after interacting with white students who expressed colorblind racial beliefs, but not after interactions with white students expressing multicultural values.