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| Heather M ConklinSummaryAffiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Cognitive outcomes following contemporary treatment without cranial irradiation for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaH M Conklin
Department of Psychology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 104:1386-95. 2012..Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has included the use of prophylactic cranial irradiation in up to 20% of children with high-risk disease despite known cognitive risks of this treatment modality...- Side effects of methylphenidate in childhood cancer survivors: a randomized placebo-controlled trialHeather M Conklin
Divisionsof Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 2794, USA
Pediatrics 124:226-33. 2009..To investigate the frequency and severity of side effects of methylphenidate among childhood survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumors and identify predictors of higher adverse effect levels... - Long-term efficacy of methylphenidate in enhancing attention regulation, social skills, and academic abilities of childhood cancer survivorsHeather M Conklin
Department of Psychology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:4465-72. 2010..Methylphenidate (MPH) ameliorates attention problems experienced by some cancer survivors in the short term, but its long-term efficacy is unproven... - Predicting methylphenidate response in long-term survivors of childhood cancer: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trialHeather M Conklin
Division of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 35:144-55. 2010..To investigate the methylphenidate (MPH) response rate among childhood survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and brain tumors (BTs) and to identify predictors of positive MPH response... - Parent and teacher ratings of attention during a year-long methylphenidate trial in children treated for cancerKelli L Netson
Department of Psychology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 740, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:438-50. 2011..Longitudinally examine attention performance in childhood cancer survivors prescribed methylphenidate (MPH) to ameliorate cognitive late effects, comparing measures for inter-rater and inter-method discrepancies... 
Working memory performance following paediatric traumatic brain injuryHeather M Conklin
Division of Behavioural Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Brain Inj 22:847-57. 2008....- Predicting change in academic abilities after conformal radiation therapy for localized ependymomaHeather M Conklin
Division of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 332 N Lauderdale St, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3965-70. 2008..Academic competence was chosen as the primary outcome measure given it is a measure of applied cognitive abilities in a child's natural setting... 
Acute neurocognitive response to methylphenidate among survivors of childhood cancer: a randomized, double-blind, cross-over trialHeather M Conklin
St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:1127-39. 2007..To investigate the acute efficacy and adverse side effects of methylphenidate (MPH) among survivors of childhood cancer [acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or brain tumor (BT)] with learning impairments...- Working memory performance in typically developing children and adolescents: behavioral evidence of protracted frontal lobe developmentHeather M Conklin
Division of Behavioral Medicine St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 31:103-28. 2007..Important implications for typical and atypical frontal lobe development are discussed... - The development of nonverbal working memory and executive control processes in adolescentsMonica Luciana
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
Child Dev 76:697-712. 2005..Strategic self-organization develops until ages 16 to 17 years. Recognition memory did not appear to develop over this age range. Implications for prefrontal cortex organization by level of processing are discussed... - Growth effects of methylphenidate among childhood cancer survivors: a 12-month case-matched open-label studyBruce W Jasper
Division of Behavioral Medicine, University of Tennessee, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 2794, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 52:39-43. 2009..To investigate the effect of stimulant medication [methylphenidate (MPH)] on growth patterns among survivors of childhood cancer (acute lymphoblastic leukemia or brain tumor)... - Investigating verbal and visual auditory learning after conformal radiation therapy for childhood ependymomaMarcos Di Pinto
Division of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 77:1002-8. 2010..The secondary objective was to investigate the impact of age and select clinical factors on learning before and after treatment... - A 5-year investigation of children's adaptive functioning following conformal radiation therapy for localized ependymomaKelli L Netson
Department of Psychology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 84:217-223.e1. 2012..This longitudinal investigation prospectively examined intelligence quotient (IQ) and adaptive functioning during the first 5 years after irradiation in children diagnosed with ependymoma... - The impact of attention on social functioning in survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumorsKatherine H Moyer
Department of Psychology, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 59:1290-5. 2012..Problems with social functioning have also been identified, but their relationship with cognitive functioning is not well understood. This multi-site, cross-sectional study aimed to examine the impact of attention on social functioning... - Evidence of change in brain activity among childhood cancer survivors participating in a cognitive remediation programPing Zou
Department of Radiological Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 27:915-29. 2012..The fMRI activation index for each region of interest was inversely associated with the Conners' Clinical Competence Index (p<.01). The pilot study suggests that fMRI is useful in evaluating neural responses to cognitive remediation... - Predicting behavioral problems in craniopharyngioma survivors after conformal radiation therapyEugenia P Dolson
Division of Radiation Oncology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 3678, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 52:860-4. 2009..Survival is often marked by neurologic deficits, panhypopituitarism, diabetes insipidus, cognitive deficiencies, and behavioral and social problems... - Late effects of conformal radiation therapy for pediatric patients with low-grade glioma: prospective evaluation of cognitive, endocrine, and hearing deficitsThomas E Merchant
Department of Radiological Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl, Memphis, TN 38105 3678, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:3691-7. 2009..We conducted a prospective trial to evaluate late effects in pediatric patients with low-grade glioma (LGG) treated with conformal radiation therapy (CRT)... - Survival and long-term health and cognitive outcomes after low-grade gliomaGregory T Armstrong
Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 735, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Neuro Oncol 13:223-34. 2011..Survivors of childhood LGG experience substantial long-term adverse effects that continue to increase well beyond the 5-year survival time point... - Attention and working memory abilities in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemiaJason Ashford
Department of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
Cancer 116:4638-45. 2010.... - Working memory performance among childhood brain tumor survivorsHeather M Conklin
Department of Psychology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 18:996-1005. 2012..This pattern of findings is consistent with vulnerability in functional networks that include prefrontal brain regions and has implications for the clinical management of children with brain tumors... - Adolescents' performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: implications for the development of decision making and ventromedial prefrontal cortexCatalina J Hooper
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Dev Psychol 40:1148-58. 2004..Development of these functions may continue into young adulthood... - Hemodynamic responses to visual stimulation in children with sickle cell anemiaPing Zou
Department of Radiological Sciences, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, MS 220, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Brain Imaging Behav 5:295-306. 2011..8, pā ā¤ ā0.05) with Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence scores, suggesting that fMRI may help clarify medical, hemodynamic, and neural factors that mediate adverse effects of SCA on neurocognitive function... - At issue: assessment of schizophrenia: getting closer to the causeHeather M Conklin
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:405-11. 2003..Ultimately, this increased understanding of the disorder's etiology should facilitate the development of targeted therapeutic interventions... - Recognition memory for faces in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relativesHeather M Conklin
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:2314-24. 2002..These findings may have important implications for reducing etiological heterogeneity among schizophrenia populations, identifying disorder susceptibility among their relatives and furthering understanding of disorder etiology... - Working memory functioning in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives: cognitive functioning shedding light on etiologyHeather M Conklin
Department of Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 1750 East Fairmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:930-42. 2005..This pattern of WM performance may further implicate DLPFC dysfunction in the liability for schizophrenia and has implications for future cognitive, genetic, and neurodevelopmental research...