BACKGROUND Lead still remains an important problem for poor, inner-city, ethnic minority children, with a particular emphasis on lead paint and dust. In Egypt, there is no national survey about the prevalence of elevated blood lead level among children. OBJECTIVE To assess the environmental lead level as well as to determine blood lead level among primary school children and find out its rela...

Patterns of coordinated variations gray matter (GM) morphology across individuals are promising indicators disease. However, it remains unclear if they can help characterize first-episode psychosis (FEP) and symptoms’ severity. Sixty-seven FEP 67 matched healthy controls (HC) were assessed with structural MRI to evaluate the existence distributed GM covariance patterns associated brain areas be...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa back ground: considering the high prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism (ch) in isfahan, the intelligence quotient (iq) of children with ch and the effect of diagnostic and treatment variables on it were investigated during the ch screening program. materials and methods: a total of 120 children in three studied groups were studied in this compara...

Wilkinson contends that economic inequality reduces the health and life expectancy of the whole population but his argument does not make sense within its own evolutionary framework. Recent evolutionary psychological theory suggests that the human brain, adapted to the ancestral environment, has difficulty comprehending and dealing with entities and situations that did not exist in the ancestra...

Despite tremendous progress in the field of Visual Question Answering, models today still tend to be inconsistent and brittle. Thus, we propose a model-independent cyclic framework which increases consistency robustness any VQA architecture. We train our answer original question, generate an implication based on then learn generated correctly. As part framework, novel generator generates implie...

Abstract PURPOSE To investigate the impact of treatment exposures and socioeconomic status on neurocognitive performance in children with brain tumors. METHODS Eligible patients included those diagnosed a tumor at <22 years age ≥ 1 assessment. Neurocognitive impairment was defined as 1.5 standard deviations below normative mean using standardized measures intellectual function. outcomes ...

INTRODUCTION Besides dental and skeletal fluorosis, excessive fluoride intake can also affect the central nervous system without first causing the physical deformities associated with skeletal fluorosis. With the existence of widespread endemic fluorosis in India, the possible adverse effect of elevated fluoride in drinking water on the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) level of children is a potentia...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of a rhythmic motor program on the perceptual – motor abilities (pma) and the intelligence quotient (iq) of educable mentally retarded (emr) children. the sample consisted of 24 emr girls (mean age = 11.98+1.43 years and iq = 70.58+ 9.95). then, they were matched and assigned to two groups of intervention and control according to their iq and pma ...

s | 31 yearly family income were included as covariates in model 1 and the child’s IQ was added as a covariate in model 2. Results: Children who were breastfed had higher listening (p = 0.048), speaking (p < 0.001), reading (p = 0.002), writing (p = 0.002), spelling (p = 0.001), mathematical calculation (p = 0.002), and learning quotient (p < 0.001) scores in the LDES in model 1. When a...