Whether hearing loss is truly a cause of cognitive decline or merely a risk factor associated with the ageing brain, the decline of cognitive abilities into dementia is set to explode financial models of health and social care in Western societies and requires urgent attention.
That is much less true of many of the cognitive jobs of the digital era.
His success in convincing Bush of this distinction turned the anti-Semitic - not to mention strategically disastrous - view that terrorists who kill Israelis should be treated differently from terrorists who kill anyone else into one of the cognitive foundations of the US war on Islamic terror.
Most of the studies compare the cognitive performances of expert gamers with those of non-gamers, and suffer from well-known pitfalls of experimental design.
Once they concern large swathes of economic output and the cognitive activity of millions of people, it is difficult to keep the government out.
Is the choice among such alternatives really beyond the cognitive competence of the average home buyer?
They have done a full cognitive workup of the players on the U.N.
Understanding the cognitive edges of image recognition is good training for being a smart consumer of media and content of all kinds.
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To be precise, the author, Franz Messerli, was wondering if chocolate consumption might be correlated with the overall cognitive function of a population.
In Walton's studies, the intervention increased subjects' happiness, improved their health and reduced cognitive activation of negative stereotypes for several years after the initial intervention.
He noted that the tests we have for measuring the cognitive functioning of infants, though admittedly crude, show the races to be almost the same.
One must make the distinction between the cognitive process of medical diagnosis occurring in exam rooms, with the procedural basis of surgical care and hospital recovery.
To help stave off the cognitive decline of aging, you might want to drop the crossword puzzle and head out for a brisk walk or a bike ride.
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What it points to rather is a cognitive failure of Israel's leaders - from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu down - to understand the nature of the war being waged against us.
These benefits include short-term gains in the emotional or cognitive development of the child, improvements in educational outcomes, reduced levels of criminal activity, and improvements in health-related indicators, such as child abuse.
University of Pennsylvania researchers found that ten weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy reduced the rate of repeat suicide attempts by half in patients who reported to the emergency room after an attempt.
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Several years ago, therefore, Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can develop.
Little attention is given to the social or cognitive aspects of cyberspace and information, nor to the opportunities that they provide for contributing to achieving military objectives in other domains and promoting the national interest more generally.
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For the past 30 years, Dr Pepperberg, who studies parrots at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, has been producing research papers on the cognitive abilities of her African Grey, Alex, who died in September 2007 and who was the subject of an Economist obituary.
"Further tests are needed to confirm this, but if neurofeedback can positively influence the cognitive performance of healthy individuals, as we have previously shown on attention and musical performance, it opens up the possibility that such treatment may be beneficial for those suffering from cognitive deficits".
If the moral of this story is that media commentary is like navigating in fog, the crisis of journalism is, at this point, sufficiently real to be seen as part of a wider conceptual crisis brought about by new-media technology: a crisis that is located, primarily, in the cognitive effects of acceleration and its cultural backwash.
Assuming the relation between test scores and future growth is indeed causal, the OECD study also works out the economic benefits of improving cognitive skills by the equivalent of nine months' worth of schooling.
And, in fact, part of cognitive therapy is -involves teaching people to get rid of that hangdog look.
There's a certain kind of cognitive suspension that we all go through when we buy meat - or many of us do.
One useful thing to understand is that an elder, even in the early stages of cognitive decline needs to be making plans to allow others to take over the handling of financial matters.
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Tragically, these all too familiar examples of democracies cognitive dissonance and fecklessness in the face of real and growing threats are as in Churchills time being encouraged and exacerbated by a failure of the intelligence community.
The first part of the book is a mixture of psychology and trendy neuroscience research that presents the evidence for Mr Shermer's central claim: that, instead of shaping belief around painstakingly gathered, soberly judged evidence, people most often decide upon their beliefs first, and then use an impressive range of cognitive tricks to bend whatever evidence they do discover into support for those pre-decided acts of faith.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
Thus, a major battlefield of the cognitive war between jihadis and the West concerns tolerance for criticism of the other.
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The very act of awarding prizes seems to throw Tinseltown into a state of cognitive dissonance.
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