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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Cognitive health"”.
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An Effective Platform for Assessing Cognitive Health
… for diagnosing early-stage ADRD involves routine cognitive assessments under the supervision of a medical professional, a costly and time-consuming process. Furthermore, these assessments are often administered with pen and paper, making it difficult to measure many behaviors expressed by the …
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Exercise duration for cognitive health in breast cancer survivors
The student, Elizabeth Awick, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-11 at 14:57.
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Influence of social-emotional learning on preadolescent physical activity and cognitive health outcomes
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Preventive Behaviors for Cognitive Health Maintenance: Understanding the Role of Message Framing and Involvement
Introduction: Neurocognitive conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, associated with decline in cognitive functioning and progression to loss of mental and physical functioning are on the rise due to lack of available treatment and increasing proportion of aging population. There are 5.3 million …
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Cognitive Health in Black and Latina Midlife Women: The Role of Sleep and Vasomotor Symptoms
… modifiable, female-specific risk factors for cognitive dysfunction is critical to promote brain health and reduce health disparities. Objective: The goal of this study was to examine associations between objectively measured sleep disturbance, vasomotor symptoms (VMS), rest-activity rhythms …
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Use of Live and Robotic Assistance Animals for Psychological and Cognitive Health in Military Populations
… animal-assisted therapy for psychological and cognitive health in military populations. More specifically, this literature review aims to address the benefits and limitations of the use of live animal-assisted therapy, complementary and alternative techniques (i.e., Combat and Emotional Stress …
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Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Physical Activity and Cognitive Health in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults
… (PA) may mitigate the effects of aging on brain health and promote cognition in older adults, with benefits varying by biological sex and ethnicity. Data from the Health and Aging Brain Study – Health Disparities, a community-based cohort of 3585 Hispanic, Non-Hispanic Black (NBH), and …
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Enhancing Cross-Cultural Communication and Cognitive Health Through Chinese Papercutting: A Comparative Study of Welsh and Chinese Adults
… of traditional Chinese papercutting art with cognitive health and cross-cultural communication within the Welsh context. It introduces the "Chinese Papercutting Cross-Cultural Cognitive Enhancement Model" as a pioneering intervention, an original contribution to the field, developed to address …
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Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers
… costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional, and health domains. While this contributes to explaining heterogeneity in investments, we find no significant differences in preferences for child developmental outcomes. The findings from simulating the impact of various …
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Preventive computing technology for successful aging
… is (or can be) used in everyday life to support healthy and happy older adults by maintaining physical fitness, cognitive health, and emotional fulfillment. In addressing this problem, much focus has been placed on assistive technology, replacing or compensating for functionality that has …
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Aerobic fitness and the attentional blink in preadolescent children
… extent to which aerobic fitness relates to brain health and cognition during development is of increasing importance. Given that temporal dynamics has not been examined to link the relation of aerobic fitness with cognition in preadolescent children, this study sought to employ neuroelectric and …
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The influence of physical activity, sedentary time, and adiposity, on behavioral and neuroelectric measures of attentional inhibition
… to be detrimental not only to physical but cognitive health as well. However, the cognitive implications of these interrelated health factors are rarely examined together, therefore, little is known regarding the concomitant contribution of physical activity and adiposity to cognition. …
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Digital Symbol Digit Test: Multimodal Behavior Detection and Visualization
… Symbol Digit Test (dSDT), administered via the Cognitive Health App on an iPad and using the ETVision Eye Tracking System, aims to provide an automated, reliable method to analyze patient cognitive function to detect early signs of impairment through capturing handwriting and gaze data. This …
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Investigating Modular Structure and Function in Biology: from Immunology to Cognition
… processing in the brain, and quantifying the cognitive health benefits of a therapeutic arts intervention.
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The Effect of Hearing Aid Use On Cognition in Older Adults with Adult Onset Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review
… hearing aids by older adults positively impacts cognitive status. If the results of this review uncover a positive association between hearing-aid use and cognition, then hearing aids can be recommended as an intervention method for the mitigation of cognitive decline. The eight studies included …
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Transient modulations of inhibitory control in children with ADHD: The effect of a single bout of physical activity
… to which physical activity relates to brain health and cognition during development is of increasing importance. Accordingly, the aim of this investigation was to examine the effect of a single bout of moderately- intense aerobic exercise on preadolescent children with ADHD. Using a …
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Bridging cognitive gaps: development of novel diagnostic criteria for MCI in Multiple Sclerosis
… processes, predominantly affecting young adults. Cognitive impairment is a common but often underrecognized symptom of MS, affecting approximately 40% to 70% of patients. This impairment significantly reduces personal autonomy, limits work performance, and hinders active social participation, …
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Obesity, visceral adipose tissue, and cognition in childhood
… rates, which are associated with a myriad of health complication. In addition to weight status, central adipose tissue is particularly dangerous, with visceral adipose tissue being linked to higher risks of metabolic diseases and cardiovascular complications. However, the relationship between …
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Physical activity for the brain, but for whom? An individual difference investigation of the FITKids clinical trial on cognitive control and ERPs in children
… fitness, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex to cognitive control outcomes associated with a 9-month physical activity intervention (FITKids clinical trial) in preadolescent children. This was accomplished by randomizing three hundred eighty-four children into an afterschool physical activity …
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Intraindividual variability in sleep is related to sleep quality and psychosocial and academic outcomes.
Sleep is important for physical, mental, and cognitive health. Though existing literature has consistently shown that short sleep duration is detrimental to health and functions, relatively little has been learned about another sleep health dimension ── intraindividual variability (IIV) in sleep …
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