BACKGROUND Children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) display numerous neuropsychological impairments, including deficits on measures of executive functioning (EF) and working memory. OBJECTIVES The goal of this project was to examine whether children with PAE and FASD demonstrate EF and working memory deficits on the CANTAB® (a computerized neur...

John Fryer, m.d. (Cantab.), f.r.s., may be rightly described as the most observant and learned of all the physicians and surgeons of the East India Company in the 17th century. He came out to India in 1673 and served at various settlements in this country and Persia till 1682. During his journey to his station, Surat, he visited Fort St. George and Masulipatam on the Coromandel coast, and Goa a...

BACKGROUND Down syndrome is associated with specific cognitive deficits. Alongside this, older adults with Down syndrome are a high risk group for dementia. The Arizona Cognitive Test Battery (ACTB), a cognitive assessment battery specifically developed for use with individuals with Down syndrome, has been proposed for use as outcome measures for clinical trials in this population. It has not b...

Recent structural and functional imaging work, as well as neuropathology and neuropsychology studies, provide strong empirical support for the involvement of frontal cortex in autism. The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) is a computer-administered set of neuropsychological tests developed to examine specific components of cognition. Previous studies document the role...

BACKGROUND Randomized controlled trials (RCT) are required to test relationships between physical activity and cognition in children, but these must be informed by exploratory studies. This study aimed to inform future RCT by: conducting practical utility and reliability studies to identify appropriate cognitive outcome measures; piloting an RCT of a 10 week physical education (PE) intervention...

Rontgen Rays in Medical Work. -By David Walsii, m.d., Edin., Physician, Western Skin Hospital, London, W., Late Hony. Secy., Rontgen Society, London, and Lewis Jones, m.d., Cantab., f.r.c.p,, Medical Officer in Charge of the Electrical Dept. of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Third Edition, pp.316, with illustrations and five plates. Price, 12s. 6c7. nett. London: Bailliere, lindal], and Cox, Stran...

By KenNETH W. Millican, B.A., Cantab., M.R. C.S., London: H. K. Lewis, 1883, pp. 107. This essay is a bold application of the Darwinian hypothesis to explain certain anomalous forms and combinations of disease and disputed points relating to the specificity of disease. The general idea is not altogether a novel one, but Mr. Millican develops it more fully than has yet been done, and attempts to...

Few studies have examined the influence of a low level of schooling on age-related cognitive decline in countries with wide social and economic inequalities by using the Cambridge Automated Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB). The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of schooling on age-related cognitive decline using unbiased cognitive tests. CANTAB allows cognitive assess...

OBJECTIVE To explore the pattern of associations between self-assessed and objective neuropsychological performance in a sample of outpatients with schizophrenia participating in a rehabilitation program. METHOD The Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition in Schizophrenia (SSTICS) [Compr. Psychiatry 44 (2003) 331] was used to assess cognitive complaints in 73 subjects with schizophrenia. Vi...