A total of 599 children with phenylketonuria, who had been treated early, were followed up prospectively in order to examine the association between intellectual progress from 4 to 14 years of age and control of phenylalanine concentrations. The phenylalanine rose from around 400 mumol/l during the first four years to above 900 mumol/l by 12 years. The children were divided into two cohorts: co...

background:   in the last decade, researchers have found that, each person’s success in education, either in school or in university, is not only related with his/her intelligence quotient, but today emotional intelligence is considered as another forecaster of people prosperities in their lives .the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical ...

Learning is a continuous process that depends as much on the student's careful recognition of their own knowledge it does teacher or pedagogy. For while, intellect quotient has been used only indicator success but world approached twenty-first century, research revealed Emotional Quotient stronger predictor than other traditional measures cognitive intellect. The performance students will conti...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS In this meta-analysis, we reviewed observational studies investigating differences in intelligence quotient (IQ) scores of children with unilateral hearing loss compared to children with normal hearing. DATA SOURCES PubMed Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, PsycINFO. METHODS A query identified all English-language studies related...

We report the case of a child affected by Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) with good cognitive performances and without relevant behavioral abnormalities.The diagnosis of PWS, suspected on the basis of clinical features and past history, was confirmed by DNA methylation analysis. Additional genetic testing revealed a maternal uniparental disomy. Intellectual profile was analyzed by WISC-III and Rave...

Abstract intelligence is a human enquiry of both natural and artificial intelligence at the reductive embodying levels of neural, cognitive, functional, and logical from the bottom up. This paper describes the taxonomy and nature of intelligence. It analyzes roles of information in the evolution of human intelligence, and the needs for logical abstraction in modeling the brain and natural intel...

BACKGROUND Speech problems are a common clinical feature of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. The objectives of this study were to inventory the speech history and current self-reported speech rating of adolescents and young adults, and examine the possible variables influencing the current speech ratings, including cleft palate, surgery, speech and language therapy, intelligence quotient, and age...

[Purpose] The present study investigated the relationships of physical activity and healthiness with the intelligence quotients of high school students in Jeddah. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 135 male and female students were randomly drawn from public and private secondary schools in Jeddah. A self-designed questionnaire was distributed to the students that included demographic, physical ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenic patients with and without obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS We grouped 27 patients as either obsessive-compulsive or non-obsessive-compulsive based on the presence of OCD. The two groups completed the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS), and Hamilton Depres...