This article is not about your library’s intelligence quotient. It’s about its image quotient—the image that your library projects to its clients. Like the stereotypical “nerd” from our high school years (strong on knowledge, weak on packaging), many information service providers ignore their library’s image. But just as the nerds, despite all their intelligence and personality, often went lone...

We aimed to explore why, in population studies, the positive association between normal-range birth weight and intelligence becomes negative at the highest birth weights. The study population comprised 217,746 Norwegian male singletons born at term between 1967 and 1976. All had data on birth weight and intelligence quotient (IQ) score at the time of military conscription; 137,574 had data on s...

The condition of hydrocephalus (HCP) and its secondary sequelae have been well documented. Previous reports have documented the impact of an enlarging ventricular system on the developing brain and neuropsychological consequences in HCP children. Furthermore, most children with shunted HCP have been reported to demonstrate poorer non-verbal intelligence quotient (IQ) scores relative to verbal I...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to assess the moderating effects of the catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) (Val(158/108)Met) genotype on antipsychotic medication-induced changes in the cognitive performance of patients with chronic schizophrenia. METHODS The sample consisted of 85 monozygotic and 53 dizygotic twin pairs, of varying concordance for schizophrenia, and healthy control twins...

Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyeperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a relatively prevalent disorder in children and is associated with some other disorders including depression. This problem also affects the emotional characteristics and intelligence quotient. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of Emotional Characteristics (EC) and depression with Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa back ground: considering the high prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism (ch) in isfahan, the intelligence quotient (iq) of children with ch and the effect of diagnostic and treatment variables on it were investigated during the ch screening program. materials and methods: a total of 120 children in three studied groups were studied in this compara...

AIM To test the hypothesis that overall intelligence quotient (IQ) is decreased in patients with Aarskog syndrome. METHODS 21 boys under 17 years of age with a confirmed clinical diagnosis of Aarskog syndrome were assessed using the Griffiths mental development scales and the British ability scales. RESULTS IQ ranged from 68 to 128 and followed a normal distribution. CONCLUSION This study...

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, but the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of datasets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement tests. IQ is relatively mo...

Objectives. This study assessed the correlation between performance intelligence and the postoperative cochlear implant (CI) outcome in Korean-speaking children. In addition, the relationship between the performance intelligence subscales and the post-CI speech outcome was evaluated. Materials and Methods. Thirteen pediatric CI users (five males, eight females; median age at implantation 6.2 (r...

BACKGROUND An association between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and childhood intelligence quotient (IQ) has repeatedly been found but it is unknown if this association is causal or due to confounding caused by genetic or social factors. METHODS We used a cohort of 1,783 mothers and their 5-year-old children sampled from the Danish National Birth Cohort. The children participated between 2003 an...