"Although the graft had to be extended by a second stem cell-based graft at one year, she has an improved exercise tolerance and evidence of improved cognition.
Drinking sufficient amounts of water can lead to improved weight status, reduced dental caries, and improved cognition among children and adolescents.
177 In humans, treatment with GH-releasing hormone analogs improved cognition in healthy elderly individuals but also in patients with mild cognitive impairment.
Beyond that, what about enhancements such as living longer, improved cognition, or altered physical attributes?
Improved cognition in Alzheimer's disease with short-term D-cycloserine treatment.
Rocchi, A. et al. A Becn1 mutation mediates hyperactive autophagic sequestration of amyloid oligomers and improved cognition in Alzheimer's disease.
For example, human patients with Alzheimer's disease showed improved cognition following 6 months of chronic cervical vagus nerve stimulation treatment22.
Whether GDF11-treated old mice exhibit improved cognition through olfactory discrimination tasks and/or hippocampus-dependent spatial navigation tasks also needs further research.
Human neural stem cell transplantation targeted to the fimbria fornix significantly improved cognition in two hippocampal-dependent memory tasks at 4 and 16 weeks post-transplantation.
Clive Thompson, in his new book on the ways that technology has improved cognition, writes that one of the unexpected developments of innovation is that "status-update tools like Twitter have produced a renaissance in witty, aphoristic, haikuesque expression".
A Cochrane Collaboration review found the evidence was too weak to conclude that ginkgo biloba improved cognition in people with Alzheimer's disease.
