Individuals who develop schizophrenia in adulthood exhibit, on average, deficits in childhood cognition relative to healthy controls. However, it remains unclear when in childhood such deficits emerge and whether they are stable across childhood or change (increase or decrease) across development. Importantly, whether the trajectory of childhood cognition differs among youth who later develop a...

AIM There is a lack of investigation into the functional developmental profile of children with Down syndrome. On the basis of current international health paradigms, the purpose of this study was to assess the developmental profile of these children. METHOD Sixty children (33 males, 27 females) with Down syndrome (age range 6-16y; mean age 9y 3mo, SD 28.8mo), who had received standard, holis...

The phonological loop is a component of the working memory system specifically involved in the processing and manipulation of limited amounts of information of a sound-based phonological nature. Phonological memory can be assessed by the Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CNRep) in English speakers but not in Portuguese speakers due to phonotactic differences between the two languages. The ...

BACKGROUND Major neurological handicaps and neuropsychological disturbances are more common in ex-preterm children than their counterparts born at term. OBJECTIVE To establish in a prospective study whether a characteristic neuropsychological profile exists in ex-preterm children who do not exhibit neurodevelopmental deficits on routine clinical examination. METHODS Thirty intellectually no...

BACKGROUND Despite advances in treating epilepsy, uncontrolled epilepsy continues to be a major clinical problem. Therefore, this work aimed to study the epidemiology of uncontrolled epilepsy in Al-Kharga District, New Valley. METHODS This study was carried out in 3 stages via door-to-door screening of the total population (62,583 persons). All suspected cases of epilepsy were subjected to ca...

In 1993 Rauscher et al.1 made the surprising claim that, after listening to Mozart's sonata for two pianos (K448) for 10 minutes, normal subjects showed significantly better spatial reasoning skills than after periods of listening to relaxation instructions designed to lower blood pressure or silence. The mean spatial IQ scores were 8 and 9 points higher after listening to the music than in the...

Although the brief scale was developed as an experimental method, it has seemed advisable to consider its actual practicability. As a critique of its practical value I have applied the first brief scale (table III) to 154 public school children in the first four primarygrades of a large school in Millville, N. J. I am indebted to Mr. Ira J. Steiner, principal of the school, and to his teachers ...

By Irene Case Sherman, Ph.D. This study was made to determine the relationship between development as measured in terms of chronological and mental age and the effect of a verbal suggestion upon perseverance in a task which has been given up as unsolvable. The subjects were sixty-five children ranging in chronological age from six to sixteen years, in mental age by the Stanford-Binet scale from...

This book was first published fourteen years ago in the United States and one ponders why it is now produced for the British market. One supposes that the pub-lshers must believe that psychology is at least fourteen years behind in Britain c?mpared to the United States and that they hope for a market for the book here. At the time when it was published in the U.S.A. this book was a fairly good ...