Emerson et al. [38 • •], for example, conducted a secondary analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study in the UK and found that after matching on socioeconomic variables, probable psychiatric disorder was no more likely to be found among fathers of children
with early cognitive delay, and the strength of this association for mothers was substantially diminished.
A variety of early environment factors including maternal age, 2 preconception health status, 11,12 maternal depression, 13 birth weight, 14 breastfeeding, 15 shared reading, 16 home computer use, 17 parent interactions and aspirations, 18,19 preschool attendance, 20 — 22 and primary caregiving arrangements23 are associated
with early cognitive development.
In an abstract presented at the conference, the researchers concluded that aerobic exercise «could preserve or possibly even improve brain volumes» in people
with early cognitive problems.
Another part of the answer has to do
with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.
Not exact matches
Director of ethical hacking, team building genius, data visualization expert,
cognitive computing architect, organizational catalyst, digital prophet, chief happiness manager: who would even have been able to come up
with such job titles in the
early 2000s?
Early business partners
with IBM are developing applications that will build on the Watson
cognitive software to make digital personal shoppers smarter, to make the medical device purchasing process more streamlined and a health management application that rewards positive behaviors.
For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts,
cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs /
early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact
with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pain.
The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of
earlier forms of
cognitive organization
with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.
Early adversity can interfere
with planning ability,
cognitive flexibility, and memory, and all of those will correlate
with diminished IQ.
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.
Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler
with cognitive and physical disabilities.
Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life
with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the
earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and
cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as
cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19
The largest randomized trial of a comprehensive
early intervention program for low - birth - weight, premature infants (birth to age three), the Infant Health and Development Program, included a home visiting component along
with an educational centre - based program.7 At age three, intervention group children had significantly better
cognitive and behavioural outcomes and improved parent - child interactions.
A baby's
earliest connections
with her parents and caregivers affects her
cognitive, social and emotional health and well - being, and builds the foundation for future learning and success.
The good news is that
with early intervention, special education, and tutoring, the risk of
cognitive and academic problems can be reduced, as can the severity of a learning disability.
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.
They can «make do»
with patchwork arrangements or even illegal care but these arrangements aren't reliable nor do they provide consistent, quality
early childhood education that promotes healthy
cognitive, social, emotional and physical development.
Child consumption of both fructose and fruit in
early childhood was associated
with higher
cognitive scores in several areas and greater receptive vocabulary.
Early experimental studies from Harvard in patients
with schizophrenia suggest that cerebellar stimulation is safe and appears to improve some of the patients»
cognitive abnormalities.
«We've known for a long time that DHA is associated
with improvements in visual,
cognitive and behavioral development in
early life, but these results suggest that DHA may also have a role in promoting a leaner, healthier growth outcome for children.
Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a
cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults
with very
early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.
Evidence that some chimps routinely eschew the safety of treetops to sleep on the ground raises the possibility that some
early hominins did too —
with possible implications for their
cognitive development.
These similar kinds or synchronized signals were found in brain areas that are connected
with the
early - stage processing of visual stimuli, detection of movement and persons, motor coordination and
cognitive functions.
Patients who had changed versions of this gene showed
early promise, often attending college, but then experienced
cognitive decline consistent
with a degenerative disease.
Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods
with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect
early forms of dementia, such as mild
cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Northwestern University's Ken Paller is already administering this type of stimulation to middle - aged adults
with mild
cognitive impairment, often an
early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.
«This is the first study that has associated a decline in
cognitive function
with gestational diabetes mellitus, which is an
early diabetic state that raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes later on,» Keskin said.
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.
People
with sleep apnea, for example, a condition in which people repeatedly stop breathing at night, are at risk for developing mild
cognitive impairment an average of 10 years
earlier than people without the sleep disorder.
Other measures such as
cognitive (i.e. IQ) ability,
early linguistic skills, measures of the environment such as socio - economic status, and whether there is a family member
with reading problems or dyslexia are all common
early factors used to assess risk of developing reading difficulties.
Next up: the team plans to study whether human patients
with early stage Alzheimer's or a mild
cognitive impairment experience this same nonconvulsive seizure activity.
«Further studies are needed to assess which collective therapies should be utilized in the most vulnerable patients
with severe sepsis to prevent
cognitive and physical disability and predict which
early interventions will impact outcome.»
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.
«
Early detection of individuals at high risk of developing memory and thinking problems that we call mild
cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial because people
with MCI are at a greater risk of developing dementia.
They included China's ambitious 15 - year plan aimed at understanding the neural basis of
cognitive functions while developing the tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases
early; it is likely to be funded
with $ 1 billion over the first 10 years.
The trial data hint that an anti — β amyloid antibody drug called aducanumab warded off
cognitive decline in people diagnosed
with early Alzheimer's.
However, less is known about whether
early transient hypoglycemia, frequently considered to be a normal physiological phenomenon
with no serious consequences, is associated
with cognitive impairment.
As a result, selective pressures for large brains and
early birth can become self - reinforcing — potentially creating species like humans
with qualitatively different
cognitive abilities than other animals.
«This knowledge may help identify those persons
with TBI who need
early intervention because they are at greater risk for
cognitive impairment.
The results of this study provide measures associated
with normal
cognitive aging in Border collies, and thus could be used as a basis for breed comparisons as well as
early recognition and treatment of certain
cognitive deficits.
In working
with a group of 34
early career teachers,
cognitive and learning sciences researcher Joshua Ellis from Michigan Tech and his co-authors asked participants to use role - play in their online discussions to deepen the feedback between group members.
However, even though an adolescent
with good language and
cognitive skills may experiment
with drinking
earlier than his / her less advanced peer, better verbal and intellectual abilities have [also] been found to be protective against developing severe problems
with alcohol and other substances in adulthood.»
Conducting a cross-sectional study of a large cohort of patients
with different levels of
cognitive impairment and different disease stages, the researchers found that the amounts of a TREM2 fragment in the cerebrospinal fluid were highest during
early stages characterized by mild
cognitive impairment symptoms.
A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve
cognitive abilities in patients
with early - stage Alzheimer's disease and reduce protein buildup blamed for the debilitating neurological disorder, researchers report in The Lancet Neurology.
A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve
cognitive abilities in patients
with early - stage Alzheimer's disease.
The three Penn study authors are also participating
with Cognition in a NASA effort reported
earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive
cognitive test battery for spaceflight.
An exhaustive study of children
with blood lead levels averaging more than 17 mcg / dL, published in 2013 in NeuroToxicology, concluded: «It is unclear whether lead exposure or
early childhood confounders were driving these associations [between lead and long - term
cognitive impacts].»
Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect
early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future
cognitive decline among adults
with mild or no
cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.
The
early childhood field should therefore combine
cognitive - linguistic enrichment
with greater attention to preventing, reducing, or mitigating the consequences of significant adversity on the developing brain.
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.