Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku, Forest Bathing has demonstrated benefits for stress reduction and cognitive function.
Children with sickle cell disease are at risk of developing neurologic complications, including stroke, transient ischemic attack, seizures, coma, and a progressive reduction in cognitive function.
In a mini-mental examination we found a significant reduction in cognitive function.
Schneider and Pichora-Fuller [ 8] also found that when visually administered cognitive tests were used, hearing impairment did not relate to reduction in cognitive function and therefore should be used as much as possible when screening and diagnosing cognitive decline.
32, 33 Although some researchers have found no effect, others reported significant reduction in cognitive function, but only in individuals who carried two A alleles, compared with patients with only one or no A allele.
Physical restraints are associated with various negative outcomes like reduced residents' quality of life, worse physiological and psychological condition [ 1], decrease of physical activity level, reduction of cognitive functioning, worsening of dementia-related behavioural symptoms [ 14] as well as increase of accidental falls, pressure ulcers and incontinence [ 3].
Roughly half of these children were moderately disabled, e.g., had significant reduction in cognitive functioning, motor deficiencies, or were referred to outpatient rehabilitation therapy.
This indicates that a clinically recruited non-demented group of participants younger than 75 years will include a significant proportion of participants with age related reduction of cognitive functions that are not primarily due to degenerative pathology.
This leads to the reduction of our cognitive function, and thus our overall performance, not only the short term but the long term.
Neher et al 21 investigated performance with noise reduction schemes and cognitive function, but did not find any significant interaction.
