Aim To study whether a specific cognitive profile can be identified for children born extremely preterm (EPT) by investigating: 1) strengths and weaknesses not revealed Full-Scale IQ, 2) overlap between different deficits 3) proportion of EPT with multiple deficits. Methods We analysed data from the 4th version Wechsler Intelligence Scales Children in (n = 359) matched controls 367), collected ...

Evidence suggests that scores on various intelligence tests have been rising at a fast rate. To find out whether performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Vocabulary subtest has also been rising, the authors searched major psychology journals for investigations involving healthy younger and older adult participants and collected the reported WAIS Vocabulary scores. The meta-an...

Over 25 years ago, Paul Meehl (1987) called for clinical psychologists to embrace the technological advances prevalent in our society: “It would be strange, and embarrassing, if clinical psychologists, supposedly sophisticated methodologically and quantitatively trained, were to lag behind internal medicine, investment analysis, and factory operations control in accepting the computer revolutio...

HM: Hemiplegic Migraine; FHM: Familial Hemiplegic Migraine; SHM: Sporadic Hemiplegic Migraine; BRIEF: Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function; BASC-2: Behavior Assessment System for ChildrenSecond Edition; WISCIV: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition; CVLT-C: California Verbal Learning TestChildren’s Version; CMS: Children’s Memory Scale; WIAT-III: Wechsler Individual...

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The structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; D. Wechsler, 2003a) was analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis among a national sample of 355 students referred for psychoeducational evaluation by 93 school psychologists from 35 states. The structure of the WISC-IV core battery was best represented by four first-order factors as per D. Wechsler (2003b), ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This prospective study investigated whether surgery for unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) affects cognitive function and cerebral blood flow (CBF). METHODS Cognitive tests using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, Wechsler Memory Scale, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test, and CBF measurements using single-photon emission computed tomography were perfor...