Furthermore, impaired sleep may also contribute to reduced cognitive function [ 45].
Low BMI could result in cerebral damages that lead to reduced cognitive function [ 39].
Therefore, a failure of patient education to prevent recurrent foot ulcers cannot be attributed to reduced cognitive function.
On the contrary, negative neuroplasticity results from physical inactivity, poor nutrition, substance abuse, and social isolation, decreases cognitive reserve, and inhibits formation of neuronal connections, leading to reduced cognitive function.
However, given that head trauma, common, for instance, in motor vehicle injury, often leads to reduced cognitive function (23), a spurious negative mental ability injury gradient may be generated by using this type of study design.
Prenatal exposure to PCBs has been shown in several cohort studies to significantly reduce cognitive function during childhood [reviewed by Schantz et al. (2003)] and has also been associated in some studies with altered thyroid hormone levels (Chevrier et al. 2007; Herbstman et al. 2008).
Exclusion criteria were the presence of dementia, depression, delirium or other illnesses likely to significantly reduce cognitive function.
For instance, stress can reduce cognitive function via damage to the hippocampus (a region of the brain important in memory), potentially contributing to heavy persons' lower educational attainment.[ 71, 72] Lower educational attainment, in turn, may explain some of the health and longevity effects of obesity.
Decreases in histidine has been demonstrated to reduce brain histamine levels and subsequently increase anxiety-like behaviors (Yoshikawa et al. 2014), reduce cognitive function (Dai et al. 2007) and contribute to stress and depression (Yanai et al. 1998).
Not only do bad audio calls make your brain hurt, they actually reduce cognitive function and introduce fatigue as you strain to make sense of the conversation.
