What is psychopathy ? And who are psychopathic? Dr. Mateer's definition rests upon the distinction between mental level and mental function. The study of mental level decides whether the child is " bright, backward, or mentally defective." The study of mental functioning indicates whether his mind is " reliable or unreliable," no matter what his mental level may be. The former is quantitative; ...

This paper introduces the School-Years Screening Test for Evaluation of Mental Status (SYSTEMS). It was designed to be used by neurologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals assessing children with suspected cognitive problems or changes. SYSTEMS was initially based on the adult Mini-Mental State Examination developed by Folstein, Folstein, and McHugh in 1975. SYSTEMS is a 7- to 12...

BACKGROUND The use of platelet-rich plasma is a now a common medical technique known as regenerative medicine, through power cell activation and differentiation, which produces growth factors called platelets derived both locally and systematically. Here, we report the case of a cerebral palsy patient who received intravenous platelet-rich plasma. CASE REPORT We administered an intravenous in...

We give a closed form for the correlation functions of ensembles of asymmetric real matrices in terms of the Pfaffian of an antisymmetric matrix formed from a 2×2 matrix kernel associated to the ensemble. We also derive closed forms for the matrix kernel and correlation functions for Ginibre’s real ensemble. Difficulties arise in the study of ensembles of asymmetric random matrices which do not...

Abstract In this study, the history of psychological testing in Japan is described using oral method. Seven test developers discussed development Japanese versions Wechsler Intelligence Scale, Binet‐Simon and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children. Three conclusions were identified. First, motivation developing tests shifted from one personal aspiration to a wider responsibility specialists' d...

BACKGROUND Despite dramatic declines in children's blood lead concentrations and a lowering of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's level of concern to 10 microg per deciliter (0.483 micromol per liter), little is known about children's neurobehavioral functioning at lead concentrations below this level. METHODS We measured blood lead concentrations in 172 children at 6, 12, 18, 2...

In a comment, hitherto unremarked upon, Alfred Binet, well known for constructing the first intelligence scale, claimed that his scale did not measure intelligence, but only enabled classification with respect to a hierarchy of intellectual qualities. Attempting to understand the reasoning behind this comment leads to an historical excursion, beginning with the ancient mathematician, Euclid and...

Recent research suggests that childhood cognitive performance is associated with various health outcomes, but the nature of the relation is not well understood. It is unclear whether the association occurs across the continuum of cognitive performance, and if it is independent of socioeconomic status. Prospective data from the Terman Life Cycle Study were used to evaluate the hypothesis of a mo...

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