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Filter by:There are many ways to improve wellbeing. This study will compare two 8-week wellbeing training programs. In addition to looking at how well the programs reduce stress and enhance wellbeing, the investigators will also ask questions about how these programs influence cognition and decision making.
The present study is being done in a scientifically rigorous manner, using readily available MCT oil (refined from coconut oil) versus a placebo oil to assess any cognitive and functional benefits for AD patients.
This study aims to create a reference database of digital cognitive assessment data in combination with neuroimaging data of patients with mild cognitive impairment. The investigators will explore and derive correlations between parameters from routine MRI images and brain volumetric analysis and the digital cognitive data to identify parameters that are relevant to classify MCI patients vs preexisting healthy control data.
Stunting is still a major problem in developing countries, including Indonesia, and has been associated with impaired development. Stunted children have also a higher risk of metabolic syndrome in adulthood. The gut microbiota, as a part of intestinal integrity, may promote intake of nutrient during childhood. Probiotics supplementation may optimize the balance of gut microbiota and further improve child growth during the window period. Furthermore, calcium could also improve child growth by increasing the resistance to intestinal infection. However, the long-term effects of gut microbiota optimization during childhood using probiotics and calcium on growth, development, and the metabolic condition has not widely studied.
Theory of mind is one of the features of mentalization. It can be defined as the ability to predict or explain other's behavior with the assignment of beliefs, wishes, and intentions and knowing how to discriminate them with our own, or in other words to know how other people think. Although this ability is crucial to behave adequately in a complex environment, theory of mind judgments are not always optimal. Notably, individuals with borderline personality disorder are may have difficulties to infer other people's thought and state of mind as well as their own mental states. These aspects could be at the origin of symptoms like impaired and unstable relationships, identity disruption and excessive fear of abandonment. Clinical and scientific point suggest that this struggle can be reinforced by social exclusion. Our study aims at identifying if a situation of social exclusion (compared with social inclusion) may decrease theory of mind performance in borderline personality disorder. Participants will play a virtual ball-tossing game on a computer, which can lead to a situation of social inclusion or exclusion. Before and after that, they will perform theory of mind tests with visual material. The study will address three research questions: Q1: Is theory of mind performance lowered after social exclusion, compared with social inclusion? Q2: is the self-reported mentalization skills correlated with theory of mind performances? Q3: Is the social rejection sensitivity correlated with the the theory of mind performances ? The investigators make several hypotheses related to the previous research questions: Q1: the investigators expect social exclusion will decrease the subject's theory of mind performances. Q2: the investigators expect low mentalization skills are correlated to low theory of mind performances. Q3: the investigators expect that a high social rejection sensitivity will be correlated with low theory of mind performances.
Education and health are crucial topics for public policies as both largely determine the future wellbeing of the society. Currently, several studies recognize that physical activity (PA) benefits brain health in children. However, most of these studies have not been carried out in developing countries or lack the transference into the education field. The Cogni-Action Project is a crossover-randomized trial. The aim of the study is to determinate the acute effects of three different training sessions consisting in (i) "Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training" (MICT), (ii) "Cooperative High-Intensity Interval Training" (C-HIIT), and (iii) sedentary activity on spontaneous brain activity and neuroelectric indices of cognitive performance during a working memory and a reading task, as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracker. In an energy expenditure counterbalanced fashion, 32 adolescents will randomly undergo each training session , two weeks apart. The main strength of this project is that, to our knowledge, this is the first study analysing the potential influence of PA, sedentarism, and physical fitness on brain structure and function, cognitive performance, and academic achievement in Latin-America and, specifically, in Chile which has been catalogued with an important sociocultural gap. For this purpose, this study will use advanced technologies in neuroimaging (MRI), electrophysiology EEG, and eye-tracking , as well as objective and quality measurements of several physical and cognitive health outcomes.
Aging is defined as a functional change in the organism which is not reversible with time progression. With this change in the organism, physical and cognitive functions are decreasing, and the potential of the individual to establish a balance between the systems decreased. For this reason, the aim of this is to investigate the effects of different home exercise programs on cognitive function, balance and daily living activities in healthy individuals.
This study will primarily investigate the impacts of a one-time unconditional cash transfer on the well-being of recently homeless individuals. Secondary research questions will examine the impact of personal coaching for cash recipients and the impact of a workshop and coaching intervention for non-cash recipients.
This study aims to compare heart rate variation, cognitive load, and learning outcomes of novel image-based virtual reality with traditional video in learning for otolaryngology. Half of participants will receive image-based virtual reality learning, while the other half will receive video-based learning.
Cognitive Control is crucial for learning and development. This study examined the associations between cognitive control and physical fitness and body composition among ethnic minority children.