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"Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a well-defined manifestation of Parkinson's disease (PD) that greatly impairs functioning and quality of life But the contribution of cerebral perfusion to MCI in PD remains poorly understood To address this gap, a new study uses multidelay multiparametric arterial spin labeling to investigate cerebral blood flow (CBF) and arterial transit time (ATT) in patients with PD Researchers compared these variables among 39 early-stage PD patients with either MCI or normal cognition and 36 age- and gender-matched healthy controls They found that ATT is a more sensitive marker for MCI than CBF, indicating a potential role for the thalamus and inferior parietal region in early-stage PD Greater focus on ATT is expected to reveal new insights into PD pathophysiology, help predict cognitive decline and offer a way to monitor disease progression Most importantly, using ATT as a biomarker could help identify the need for disease-modifying interventions before irreversible change.."

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This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology as well as literature and the other arts. Readings in philosophy, psychology, and literature are part of the course.

Besides measuring the health effects of school meals based on the New Nordic Diet, the OPUS Study also evaluated the effect of the intervention on cognitive performance of the children. In continuation of this, we will explain why it is relevant to measure cognitive performance and provide a short summary of the methods we used and the findings.

Evaluating children with severe cognitive, motor, communication, and sensory impairments

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A booklet prepared for teachers that introduces key concepts from the Science of Learning (i.e. cognitive neuroscience). The digital booklet is the result of a European project. Its content have been compiled from continuing professional development workshops for teachers and features evidence-based teaching practices that align with our knowledge of the Science of Learning.

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Science of Learning Concepts for Teachers (Project Illuminated) introduces teachers to key concepts from the Science of Learning (i.e. cognitive neuroscience). The digital booklet is the result of a European project. Its content has been compiled from continuing professional development workshops for teachers and features evidence-based teaching practices that align with our knowledge of the Science of Learning.

The digital booklet is available in English, Spanish, Finish, Greek, and Portuguese.

Please cite as: Beardsley, M. 2020. Science of Learning Concepts for Teachers (Project Illuminated) (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://illuminated.pressbooks.com/

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The patient was a 53 year-old man who presented with confusion and amnesia and subsequently suffered rapid progressive cognitive decline over the next few weeks associated with myoclonic jerks. His condition did not improve and he expired just over 3 years after presentation. The patient had a past medical history of adult onset generalized epilepsy beginning the third decade of life. Initially the cognitive decline, myoclonic jerks and epilepsy were not thought to be linked and a clinical diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was made based on the age of onset symptoms and the aggressive nature of the disease.

This is the website for “R for Data Science”. This book will teach you how to do data science with R: You’ll learn how to get your data into R, get it into the most useful structure, transform it, visualise it and model it. In this book, you will find a practicum of skills for data science. Just as a chemist learns how to clean test tubes and stock a lab, you’ll learn how to clean data and draw plots—and many other things besides. These are the skills that allow data science to happen, and here you will find the best practices for doing each of these things with R. You’ll learn how to use the grammar of graphics, literate programming, and reproducible research to save time. You’ll also learn how to manage cognitive resources to facilitate discoveries when wrangling, visualising, and exploring data.

To provide instruction and dialog on practical ethical issues relating to the responsible conduct of human and animal research in the brain and cognitive sciences. Specific emphasis will be placed on topics relevant to young researchers including data handling, animal and human subjects, misconduct, mentoring, intellectual property, and publication.

This module includes three units exploring the connections between adolescent development, the science of learning, and culturally responsive pedagogies. It is meant to make the case that K-12 teachers must not ignore the impact and value of culture as a dimension of development and factor in learning processes. The module culminates in an exploration of how the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework overlaps with principles of CRT (Culturally Relevant Teaching).

This is a series of presentations and activities that are designed to introduce students to Cognitive Development.  I have had success doing one of these every now and then as part of a history class.  Also, I have taught units on Child Development and Education where I used them all within the context of the same unit.  I like the spreading of these lessons throughtout the year in a high school setting, where students can sort of see it as a continuing series of interesting topics that break up the normal flow of learning.  

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A 76-year-old man presented with progressively worsening vertigo, memory and concentration impairment, spatial disorientation and mild expressive dysphasia for 6 months. His medical history included hypertension and a surgically treated abdominal aortic aneurysm. A few weeks before admission, headache, fatigue, weakness of the lower limbs and left arm, a tendency to fall to the left, incontinence, and episodes of confusion occurred. Upon admission the patient showed marked fatigue, confusion and apathy, and a contrast-enhancing round lesion, 1 cm in diameter, was seen in the left temporal lobe on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Repeated cognitive testing demonstrated fluctuating deficits in language, working and episodic memory, visuospatial ability, attention and psychomotor speed. A second MRI, performed one month after the first, showed attenuation of the previous lesion, with general signal enhancement in the leptomeninges, a heterogeneous contrast-enhancing lesion measuring 1x2 cm in the left frontal lobe, and a smaller lesion near the left sylvian fissure (Figure 1).

The science of social psychology investigates the ways other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is an exciting field of study because it is so familiar and relevant to our day-to-day lives. Social psychologists study a wide range of topics that can roughly be grouped into 5 categories: attraction, attitudes, peace & conflict, social influence, and social cognition.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common, painful disorder that – by definition – lacks clear physical pathology, and its symptoms are often influenced by psychological factors like intense worry and hypervigilance. In fact, brain-targeted treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) have been effective at reducing IBS symptoms. However, little is known about the impact of the pre-treatment gut microbiome or if CBT influences the gut-microbiome-brain axis. Thus, researchers recently explored those questions in patients undergoing a CBT regimen designed to treat IBS. Patients who would later have a significant reduction in IBS symptoms had a distinct microbiome from patients who did not respond to treatment, and a random forests classifier based on the most prevalent bacterial groups could accurately predict the response to CBT..."

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Do poems think? Recurrent images of the poet as an inspired lunatic, and of poetry as a fundamentally irrational art, have often fostered an understanding of poets and their work as generally extraneous to the work of the sciences. Yet poets have long reflected upon and have sought to embody in their work the most elementary processes of mind, and have frequently drawn for these representations on the very sciences to which they are thought to stand - and sometimes do genuinely stand - in opposition. Far from representing a mere departure from reason, then, the poem offers an image of the mind at work, an account of how minds work, a tool for eliciting thought in the reader or auditor. Bringing together readings in British poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with writings from the emergent sciences of psychology and the physiology of the brain, this interdisciplinary course will explore the ways in which British poets, in years that witnessed the crucial development of these sciences, sought to capture an image of the mind at work. The primary aim of the course is to examine how several prominent genres of British poetry - the lyric, for instance, and the didactic poem - draw from and engage in this period with accounts of cognition within the sciences of psychology, physiology, and medicine. More broadly, the course aims to give undergraduates with some prior experience in the methods and topics of literary study an introduction to interdisciplinary humanistic research.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"A new study suggests that transferring gut microbes from aged to young adult mice has measurable effects on parts of the central nervous system, highlighting the importance of the gut–brain axis in aging. Researchers performed fecal transplants from aged or age-matched donors to younger adult mice. The two groups showed significant differences in their microbial profiles. After transplantation, young adult recipients showed no significant changes in markers of anxiety, explorative behavior, or locomotor activity. But recipients did show impaired spatial learning and memory, as measured by a maze test. These changes were paralleled by alterations in the expression of proteins associated with synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission and changes in microglial cells in the hippocampus — the learning and memory center of the brain..."

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The first chapter provides an overview of the textbook and reviews the history of psychology and its methodology. Psychology is described as a science studying how hereditary (nature) and experiential (nurture) variables interact to influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals. The remainder of the text will be organized in sections entitled “Mostly Nature” (Biological Psychology; Sensation & Perception; Motivation & Emotion), “Mostly Nurture” (Direct Learning; Indirect Learning (i.e., observational learning and language); Cognition), and “Nature/Nurture” (Human Development; Personality; Social Psychology; Maladaptive Behavior; Professional Psychology and Human Potential).

This seminar looks at current theories on happiness and positive psychology as well as practical implications of those theories for our own lives. It explores the concept of happiness, different cultural definitions of happiness, and the connection between happiness, optimism, and meaning. Also explored are practical strategies for creating more opportunities for happiness in our lives and for learning how to deal more effectively with sources of unhappiness.
This seminar is part of the Experimental Study Group at MIT.

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A 44-year-old man with a four-year history of progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms, including irritability, apathy and hyposexuality, was admitted to another hospital because of increasing impairment of executive functions, delusions, paranoid ideation and mild cognitive decline. Physical and laboratory examinations were normal. An EEG study showed focal theta activity over the right frontal areas, whereas a brain MRI revealed mild cortical atrophy of the right hemisphere.

This course examines alternative conceptions and theoretical underpinnings of sustainable development. It focuses on the sustainability problems of industrial countries, and of developing states and economies in transition. It also explores the sociology of knowledge regarding sustainability, the economic and technological dimensions, and institutional imperatives, along with implications for political constitution of economic performance.
17.181 fulfills the undergraduate public policy requirement in the Political Science major and minor. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.