Scientists and parents alike have pondered the development of infants in the first few months of life: their physical growth, motor development, ability to think, language development, and building of social relationships. More importantly, does their early relationship with their parents shape their development? An important factor which may influence the parent-child relationship and interact...

monosomy 21 is a rare chromosomal abnormality which is persented in mosaic or homogenous forms.the latter form which is very rare,is determined by intra uterin growth retardation)IUGR),failure to thrive (FTT),prominent craniofacial,skeletal deformities and differnt degrees of delay in psychomotor activities.we report an eight years old boy who was admitted in pediatric ward(hospital No 1 of Ker...

A large proportion of psychiatric patients in Nigeria seek help from other sources which ultimately lead to treatment delay. Treatment delay could have deleterious effects on treatment outcome especially for people with schizophrenia. The study aimed to determine the socio-demographic characteristics associated with treatment delay in people with schizophrenia. This was a cross-sectional study ...

In mental rotation, a mental representation of an object must be rotated while the actual object remains visible. Where is this representation stored while it is being rotated? To answer this question, observers were asked to perform a mental rotation task during the delay interval of a visual working memory task. When the working memory task required the storage of object features, substantial...

This paper continues our earlier investigation of autistic children's deficit in attributing beliefs to others--in their "theory of mind." Three experiments are reported. The first tests the prediction that autistic children will fail to distinguish mental and physical entities. The second tests the prediction that they will also be unaware of the mental function of the brain. The third tests t...

BACKGROUND The level of mental demands in the workplace is rising. The present study investigated whether and how mental demands at work are associated with cognitive functioning in the general population. METHODS The analysis is based on data of the Health Study of the Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Disease (LIFE). 2,725 participants aged 40-80 years underwent cognitive testing (Tr...

Children and adolescents (youth) may be exposed to various forms of violence and trauma in a number of ways. Research and clinical studies have revealed that youth may be significantly impacted by isolated, single or repetitive exposures to violence and trauma. Further, these exposures may ultimately impact the overall psycho-social-emotional, and mental health, as well as, the mental health ca...

An 8-month-old infant presented to our hospital with global developmental delay. MRI brain findings revealed the diagnosis of syntelencephaly (figure, A–C). Syntelencephaly, a distinct subset of holoprosencephaly,1 is a rare brain malformation in which the hemispheric fusion does not occur at rostral forebrain but rather across posterior frontal region; hence the alternative term “middle interh...