intelligence tests

Summary

Summary: Standardized tests that measure the present general ability or aptitude for intellectual performance.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Evolution of the brain and intelligence
    Gerhard Roth
    Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, D 27753 Delmenhorst, Germany
    Trends Cogn Sci 9:250-7. 2005
  2. ncbi EEG alpha oscillations during the performance of verbal creativity tasks: differential effects of sex and verbal intelligence
    Andreas Fink
    Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
    Int J Psychophysiol 62:46-53. 2006
  3. ncbi Growth of the corpus callosum in adolescents born preterm
    Matthew Allin
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, England
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:1183-9. 2007
  4. ncbi Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents
    P Shaw
    Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20182, USA
    Nature 440:676-9. 2006
  5. ncbi Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: a latent-variable approach
    R W Engle
    School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332 0170, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 128:309-31. 1999
  6. ncbi Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis
    Geoff Der
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
    BMJ 333:945. 2006
  7. ncbi Relationships between IQ and regional cortical gray matter thickness in healthy adults
    Katherine L Narr
    Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
    Cereb Cortex 17:2163-71. 2007
  8. ncbi Correlation between spectral EEG parameters and intelligence test variables in school-age children
    R G Schmid
    Kreiskrankenhaus Pädiatrie Sozialpädiatrisches Zentrum, D 84503 Altötting, Germany
    Clin Neurophysiol 113:1647-56. 2002
  9. ncbi Age-related temporal and parietal cortical thinning in autism spectrum disorders
    Gregory L Wallace
    Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1366, USA
    Brain 133:3745-54. 2010
  10. ncbi Intellectual and physical performance and morbidity in relation to height in a cohort of 18-year-old Swedish conscripts
    T Tuvemo
    Department of Women s and Children s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    Horm Res 52:186-91. 1999

Research Grants

  1. Cognitive Derminants of Mild Mental Retardation
    Dasen Luo; Fiscal Year: 2005
  2. Validity of Diagnostic Measures for Autistic Spectrum
    Catherine Lord; Fiscal Year: 2006
  3. NEURODEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2004
  4. Prenatal Cannabis & Cigarette Exposure - Outcome
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 2004
  5. SURGERY FOR INFANTILE SPASMS CORRELATES OF AUTISTIC DISORDER
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2002
  6. THOUGHT DISORDER: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY IN EPILEPSY
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2003
  7. Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs II
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2007
  8. Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs II
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2009
  9. Pediatric Thought Disorder: Insights from Neuroimaging
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2006
  10. CANNABIS AND CIGARETTE EXPOSURE-LONG TERM EFFECTS
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 1992

Detail Information

Publications186 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Evolution of the brain and intelligence
    Gerhard Roth
    Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, D 27753 Delmenhorst, Germany
    Trends Cogn Sci 9:250-7. 2005
    ..The outstanding intelligence of humans appears to result from a combination and enhancement of properties found in non-human primates, such as theory of mind, imitation and language, rather than from 'unique' properties...
  2. ncbi EEG alpha oscillations during the performance of verbal creativity tasks: differential effects of sex and verbal intelligence
    Andreas Fink
    Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
    Int J Psychophysiol 62:46-53. 2006
    ..Task-related alpha power changes during creative problem solving were also moderated by verbal IQ and sex...
  3. ncbi Growth of the corpus callosum in adolescents born preterm
    Matthew Allin
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, England
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:1183-9. 2007
    ..To examine the growth of the corpus callosum between adolescence and early adulthood in individuals who were born before 33 weeks' gestation (very preterm [VPT]) and its relation to neuropsychological function...
  4. ncbi Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents
    P Shaw
    Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20182, USA
    Nature 440:676-9. 2006
    ..This study indicates that the neuroanatomical expression of intelligence in children is dynamic...
  5. ncbi Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: a latent-variable approach
    R W Engle
    School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332 0170, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 128:309-31. 1999
    ..The authors also discuss the relationship of this capability to controlled attention, and the functions of the prefrontal cortex...
  6. ncbi Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis
    Geoff Der
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
    BMJ 333:945. 2006
    ..To assess the importance of maternal intelligence, and the effect of controlling for it and other important confounders, in the link between breast feeding and children's intelligence...
  7. ncbi Relationships between IQ and regional cortical gray matter thickness in healthy adults
    Katherine L Narr
    Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
    Cereb Cortex 17:2163-71. 2007
    ..Sex moderates regional relationships that may index dimorphisms in cognitive abilities, overall processing strategies, or differences in structural organization...
  8. ncbi Correlation between spectral EEG parameters and intelligence test variables in school-age children
    R G Schmid
    Kreiskrankenhaus Pädiatrie Sozialpädiatrisches Zentrum, D 84503 Altötting, Germany
    Clin Neurophysiol 113:1647-56. 2002
    ..The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between the degree of intelligence and spectral electroencephalographic (EEG) parameters and to find out which EEG variables are relevant for this correlation...
  9. ncbi Age-related temporal and parietal cortical thinning in autism spectrum disorders
    Gregory L Wallace
    Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1366, USA
    Brain 133:3745-54. 2010
    ..e. greater thinning) may be characteristic of these disorders...
  10. ncbi Intellectual and physical performance and morbidity in relation to height in a cohort of 18-year-old Swedish conscripts
    T Tuvemo
    Department of Women s and Children s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    Horm Res 52:186-91. 1999
    ..001). In conclusion, short stature was associated with increased morbidity and psychological problems and with lower mean intellectual performance. To what extent this association is direct or indirect needs further evaluation...
  11. ncbi Relationship between intelligence and the size and composition of the corpus callosum
    Amanda D Hutchinson
    School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Exp Brain Res 192:455-64. 2009
    ..Our results suggest that CC morphology is related to cognitive performance, which may have implications for clinical populations in whom CC morphology is atypical...
  12. ncbi The association between cognitive ability measured at ages 18-20 and mortality during 30 years of follow-up--a prospective observational study among Swedish males born 1949-51
    Tomas Hemmingsson
    Division of Occupational Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    Int J Epidemiol 35:665-70. 2006
    ..This study aims to investigate the association between cognitive ability measured at age 18-20 and mortality during a 30 year period of follow-up...
  13. ncbi Neuropsychological correlates of hair arsenic, manganese, and cadmium levels in school-age children residing near a hazardous waste site
    Robert O Wright
    Harvard School of Public Health, USA
    Neurotoxicology 27:210-6. 2006
    ..No other significant relationships were found. These results suggest the need to study further the neuropsychological correlates of developmental exposure to Mn and As, particularly as a mixture...
  14. ncbi Water arsenic exposure and children's intellectual function in Araihazar, Bangladesh
    Gail A Wasserman
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 112:1329-33. 2004
    ..5 microg/L. The association was generally stronger for well-water As than for urinary As...
  15. ncbi Childhood IQ in relation to obesity and weight gain in adult life: the National Child Development (1958) Study
    T Chandola
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
    Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1422-32. 2006
    ..In the present study, this relation appears to be largely mediated via educational attainment and the adoption of healthy diets in later life...
  16. ncbi Age-related change in executive function: developmental trends and a latent variable analysis
    Mariette Huizinga
    Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Neuropsychologia 44:2017-36. 2006
    ..These results suggest that EF component processes develop at different rates, and that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity of EF component processes in studying the development of EF...
  17. ncbi Late neurocognitive sequelae in survivors of brain tumours in childhood
    Raymond K Mulhern
    Division of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
    Lancet Oncol 5:399-408. 2004
    ..Further efforts to limit neurocognitive sequelae have included design of clinical trials to test the effectiveness of cognitive, behavioural, and pharmacological interventions...
  18. ncbi Meta-analysis of intellectual and neuropsychological test performance in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Thomas W Frazier
    Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
    Neuropsychology 18:543-55. 2004
    ..These findings indicate that overall cognitive ability is significantly lower among persons with ADHD and that FSIQ may show as large a difference between ADHD and control participants as most other measures...
  19. ncbi Predicting intellectual outcome among children treated with 35-40 Gy craniospinal irradiation for medulloblastoma
    Shawna L Palmer
    Division of Behavioral Medicine, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 2794, USA
    Neuropsychology 17:548-55. 2003
    ..A steeper decline was found for those with higher baseline performance. Clinicians may use the proposed predictive model to identify those patients who are at risk of significant intellectual decline...
  20. ncbi Childhood IQ in relation to risk factors for premature mortality in middle-aged persons: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study
    G David Batty
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:241-7. 2007
    ..This study examines the association between childhood IQ and a range of established physiological and behavioural risk factors for premature mortality in adulthood. Design,..
  21. ncbi Comparison of long-term neurocognitive outcomes in young children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with cranial radiation or high-dose or very high-dose intravenous methotrexate
    Brenda J Spiegler
    Department of Paediatrics, Division of Haematology Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    J Clin Oncol 24:3858-64. 2006
    ..The impact of chemotherapy-only protocols on neurocognitive outcomes is unclear, and the importance of systemic MTX dose has not been established...
  22. ncbi IQ in early adulthood and later cancer risk: cohort study of one million Swedish men
    G D Batty
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
    Ann Oncol 18:21-8. 2007
    ..While several studies have reported an inverse relation between IQ and total mortality rates, little is known about the association, if any, between IQ and disease-specific outcomes, particularly cancer...
  23. ncbi Co-occurrence of ADHD and low IQ has genetic origins
    J Kuntsi
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 124:41-7. 2004
    ..Some candidate genes for ADHD could also contribute to variation in IQ or vice versa...
  24. ncbi Neuropsychological functioning of siblings of children with autism, siblings of children with developmental language delay, and siblings of children with mental retardation of unknown genetic etiology
    Tammy Pilowsky
    Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:537-52. 2007
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  25. ncbi Risks for low intellectual performance related to being born small for gestational age are modified by gestational age
    Niklas Bergvall
    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    Pediatrics 117:e460-7. 2006
    ..We sought to study whether the association between being born small for gestational age and risk for low intellectual performance was modified by gestational age...
  26. ncbi Premorbid intellectual functioning and risk of schizophrenia and spectrum disorders
    Abraham Reichenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levey Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:193-207. 2006
    ..IQ was not associated with age of onset. These results confirm the importance of low intellectual functioning as a risk factor for SSD. This is unlikely to be due to prodrome...
  27. ncbi IQ and mental disorder in young men
    Erik Lykke Mortensen
    Department of Health Psychology, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, PO Box 2099, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
    Br J Psychiatry 187:407-15. 2005
    ..Most research investigating the relationship between IQ and risk of mental disorder has focused on schizophrenia...
  28. ncbi Voxel-based morphometry and stereology provide convergent evidence of the importance of medial prefrontal cortex for fluid intelligence in healthy adults
    Qi Yong Gong
    Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre MARIARC, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Liverpool, UK
    Neuroimage 25:1175-86. 2005
    ..WAIS-R Verbal Intelligence SSS showed no correlations. We interpret our findings, from independent analyses of both VBM and stereology, as evidence of the importance of medial prefrontal cortex in supporting fluid intelligence...
  29. ncbi The effects of hydrocephalus on intelligence quotient in children with localized infratentorial ependymoma before and after focal radiation therapy
    Thomas E Merchant
    Department of Radiation Oncology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
    J Neurosurg 101:159-68. 2004
    ..The goal of this study was to determine the influence of hydrocephalus on intelligence quotient (IQ) in children with infratentorial ependymoma before and after the administration of focal radiation...
  30. ncbi Critical risk factors for intellectual impairment in children with posterior fossa tumors: the role of cerebellar damage
    Jacques Grill
    Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France
    J Neurosurg 101:152-8. 2004
    ..The authors studied the effects in 76 children treated for a malignant posterior fossa tumor in a cross-sectional study...
  31. ncbi Cognitive heterogeneity in first-episode schizophrenia
    Eileen M Joyce
    Institute of Neurology, University College London, Box 19, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 187:516-22. 2005
    ..Studies of chronic schizophrenia suggest that there are subgroups with different profiles of cognitive impairment...
  32. ncbi Elaboration on premorbid intellectual performance in schizophrenia: premorbid intellectual decline and risk for schizophrenia
    Abraham Reichenberg
    Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1297-304. 2005
    ..However, it is not clear whether this below-average premorbid intelligence is stable or progressive...
  33. ncbi Water manganese exposure and children's intellectual function in Araihazar, Bangladesh
    Gail A Wasserman
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 114:124-9. 2006
    ..S. Environmental Protection Agency lifetime health advisory level. We conclude that in both Bangladesh and the United States, some children are at risk for Mn-induced neurotoxicity...
  34. ncbi Incidence and prevalence of HIV encephalopathy in children with HIV infection receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART)
    Claudia A Chiriboga
    Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    J Pediatr 146:402-7. 2005
    ..To describe neurologic outcomes in children infected with HIV in the era of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), including rates of progressive HIV encephalopathy (PHE) and clinical sequelae among PHE survivors...
  35. ncbi Identification of first candidate genes for creativity: a pilot study
    Martin Reuter
    Department of Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10F, D 35394 Giessen, Germany
    Brain Res 1069:190-7. 2006
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  36. ncbi Smaller white-matter volumes are associated with larger deficits in attention and learning among long-term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    Wilburn E Reddick
    Division of Translational Imaging Research, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
    Cancer 106:941-9. 2006
    ..The primary objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have deficits in neurocognitive performance, and smaller white-matter volumes are associated with these deficits...
  37. ncbi Does IQ explain socioeconomic inequalities in health? Evidence from a population based cohort study in the west of Scotland
    G David Batty
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ
    BMJ 332:580-4. 2006
    ..To test the hypothesis that IQ is a fundamental cause of socioeconomic inequalities in health...
  38. ncbi Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and cognitive abilities among U.S. children and adolescents
    Kimberly Yolton
    Cincinnati Children s Environmental Health Center, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 3039, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 113:98-103. 2005
    ..These data, which indicate an inverse association between ETS exposure and cognitive deficits among children even at extremely low levels of exposure, support policy to further restrict children's exposure...
  39. ncbi Low intelligence test scores in 18 year old men and risk of suicide: cohort study
    D Gunnell
    Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR
    BMJ 330:167. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Performance in intelligence tests is strongly related to subsequent risk of suicide in men...
  40. ncbi Radiation dosimetry predicts IQ after conformal radiation therapy in pediatric patients with localized ependymoma
    Thomas E Merchant
    Division of Radiation Oncology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 63:1546-54. 2005
    ..To assess the effects of radiation dose-volume distribution on the trajectory of IQ development after conformal radiation therapy (CRT) in pediatric patients with ependymoma...
  41. ncbi Therapeutic schedules influence the pattern of intellectual decline after irradiation of posterior fossa tumors
    Virginie Kieffer-Renaux
    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
    Pediatr Blood Cancer 45:814-9. 2005
    ..Therapeutic schedules influence the magnitude of this decline. Long-term follow-up into adulthood is necessary to effectively adapt patient rehabilitation...
  42. ncbi Water arsenic exposure and intellectual function in 6-year-old children in Araihazar, Bangladesh
    Gail A Wasserman
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 115:285-9. 2007
    ..We recently reported results of a cross-sectional investigation of intellectual function in 10-year-olds in Bangladesh, who had been exposed to arsenic from drinking water in their home wells...
  43. ncbi A neural basis for general intelligence
    J Duncan
    Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
    Science 289:457-60. 2000
    ..The results suggest that "general intelligence" derives from a specific frontal system important in the control of diverse forms of behavior...
  44. ncbi Twin-singleton differences in intelligence?
    D Posthuma
    Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Twin Res 3:83-7. 2000
    ..It is concluded that twin studies provide reliable estimates of heritabilities of intellectual abilities which can be generalised to the singleton population...
  45. ncbi Intelligence and brain size in 100 postmortem brains: sex, lateralization and age factors
    S F Witelson
    Albert Einstein Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
    Brain 129:386-98. 2006
    ..Our results point to the need for responsibility in the consideration of the possible use of brain images as intelligence tests.
  46. ncbi The Raven's progressive matrices: change and stability over culture and time
    J Raven
    30 Great King Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QH, Scotland
    Cogn Psychol 41:1-48. 2000
    ..Subsequent sections deal with variation over time. A possible explanation for the variation in norms over time and between ethnic groups within countries is offered...
  47. ncbi Ependymoma in childhood: prognostic factors, extent of surgery, and adjuvant therapy
    Marie-Lise C van Veelen-Vincent
    Sophia Children's Hospital, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    J Neurosurg 97:827-35. 2002
    ..It is not clear whether this subgroup either responded well to chemotherapy or needed no adjuvant therapy. Further research is warranted to answer this question...
  48. ncbi Breast milk feeding and cognitive ability at 7-8 years
    L J Horwood
    Christchurch Health and Development Study and Department of Paediatrics, Christchurch School of Medicine, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 84:F23-7. 2001
    ..To examine the association between duration of breast milk feeding and cognitive ability at 7-8 years in a birth cohort of very low birthweight infants...
  49. ncbi Cognitive change and the APOE epsilon 4 allele
    Ian J Deary
    Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
    Nature 418:932. 2002
    ..This effect of the APOE epsilon 4 allele on normal cognitive ageing may be mediated by a mechanism that is at least partly independent of its predisposing effect towards Alzheimer's disease...
  50. ncbi The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond
    Ian J Deary
    Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
    BMC Geriatr 7:28. 2007
    ..A limitation of many studies is the lack of a sufficiently long period between cognitive assessments to examine determinants. Here, the aim is to examine influences on cognitive ageing between childhood and old age...
  51. ncbi Longitudinal cohort study of childhood IQ and survival up to age 76
    L J Whalley
    Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen, Clinical Research Centre, Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen AB24 2ZD
    BMJ 322:819. 2001
    ..Controlling for this factor did not alter the association between mental ability and mortality. CONCLUSION: Childhood mental ability is a significant factor among the variables that predict age at death...
  52. ncbi COMT val158met modulates association between brain white matter architecture and IQ
    Jun Li
    National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P R China
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:375-80. 2009
    ..Our findings suggest that COMT val158met may contribute to intelligence by affecting the association between IQ and the white matter architecture in the prefrontal lobe and the hippocampal formation...
  53. ncbi Secular gains in fluid intelligence: evidence from the Culture-Fair intelligence test
    Roberto Colom
    Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    J Biosoc Sci 35:33-9. 2003
    ..Therefore, more selected people (graduates) show a smaller increase than less selected people (students). Some implications are discussed...
  54. ncbi The effect of early human diet on caudate volumes and IQ
    Elizabeth B Isaacs
    MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, University College London Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom
    Pediatr Res 63:308-14. 2008
    ..Our findings may partly explain the effects of early diet on cognition and the predominant effects in males. They are among the first to show that human brain structure can be influenced by early nutrition...
  55. ncbi Cognition. The holey grail of general intelligence
    R J Sternberg
    Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
    Science 289:399-401. 2000
    ..But, as Sternberg points out, measures of intelligence are only as good as the tests you use and the conclusions that you draw from them...
  56. ncbi The neuroscience of human intelligence differences
    Ian J Deary
    Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    Nat Rev Neurosci 11:201-11. 2010
    ..There is also evidence that brain efficiency correlates positively with intelligence...
  57. ncbi Birth weight and cognitive function in young adult life: historical cohort study
    H T Sørensen
    Department of Internal Medicine V, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
    BMJ 315:401-3. 1997
    ..To examine the relation between birth weight and cognitive function in young adult life...
  58. ncbi The role of cognitive functioning in medication adherence of children and adolescents with HIV infection
    Kathleen Malee
    Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 34:164-75. 2009
    ..To evaluate the relationship between cognitive functioning and medication adherence in children and adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV infection...
  59. ncbi Intellectual outcome in children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treated with chemotherapy alone: age- and sex-related differences
    N von der Weid
    Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group SPOG, University Children s Hospital Inselspital, CH 3010, Berne, Switzerland
    Eur J Cancer 39:359-65. 2003
    ..The abandonment of prophylactic CNS irradiation and its replacement by a more intensive systemic and intrathecal chemotherapy led to a reduction, but not the disappearance of late neuropsychological sequelae...
  60. ncbi The association between cognitive ability measured at ages 18-20 and coronary heart disease in middle age among men: a prospective study using the Swedish 1969 conscription cohort
    Tomas Hemmingsson
    National Institute for Working Life Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 65:1410-9. 2007
    ..Given the results from this study it is unlikely that cognitive ability is a risk factor on its own for CHD, AMI and stroke among men below 54 years of age...
  61. ncbi Positive correlations between corpus callosum thickness and intelligence
    Eileen Luders
    Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, and Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
    Neuroimage 37:1457-64. 2007
    ..Our findings emphasize the importance of incorporating posterior (callosal) regions into the theories and models proposed to explain the anatomical substrates of intelligence...
  62. ncbi IQ in early adulthood and later risk of death by homicide: cohort study of 1 million men
    G David Batty
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 193:461-5. 2008
    ..Risk factors for homicide are emerging; however, the predictive value of IQ, for which there is a strong prima facie case, has yet to be examined...
  63. ncbi Neuropsychological characterization of cognitively-impaired-not-demented (CIND) individuals: clinical comparison data
    Kevin R Peters
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Clin Neuropsychol 18:208-28. 2004
    ..The results support the impression that CIND is a cognitively heterogeneous condition...
  64. ncbi Susceptibility weighted imaging: neuropsychologic outcome and pediatric head injury
    Talin Babikian
    Department of Psychology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
    Pediatr Neurol 33:184-94. 2005
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  65. ncbi Visual search performance in children rated as good or poor attenders: the differential impact of DAT1 genotype, IQ, and chronological age
    K M Cornish
    Neuroscience Laboratory for Research and Education in Developmental Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Neuropsychology 22:217-25. 2008
    ..In contrast, DAT1 gene, known to be associated with the behavioral symptoms of ADHD, was unrelated to visual search or vigilance performance, although it was related to ADHD symptoms...
  66. ncbi Long-term beneficial effects of dexamethasone on intellectual and neuropsychological outcome of children with pneumococcal meningitis
    M Ozen
    Department of Paediatrics, Medical Faculty, Inonu University, Malatya
    Scand J Infect Dis 38:104-9. 2006
    ..In addition, PM subjects who received steroids showed better academic achievement. These findings may support the idea of dexamethasone administration prior to first antibiotic dose in PM subjects...
  67. ncbi Intellectual functioning in presurgical patients with hypothalamic hamartoma and refractory epilepsy
    George P Prigatano
    Division of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, St Joseph s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 13:149-55. 2008
    ..It was predicted that the level of estimated intelligence and the pattern of intellectual test performance would significantly correlate with the size of the HH and neuroanatomical features...
  68. ncbi Relating children's attentional capabilities to intelligence, memory, and academic achievement: a test of construct specificity in children with asthma
    Robert D Annett
    University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
    Child Neuropsychol 13:64-85. 2007
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  69. ncbi The prefrontal cortex: functional neural development during early childhood
    Satoshi Tsujimoto
    Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
    Neuroscientist 14:345-58. 2008
    ..The literature reviewed suggests that fractionation of the functional neural systems plays a key role in the development of prefrontal cortex and such fractionating process has already commenced in preschool children...
  70. ncbi Twenty-five years of research on neurocognitive outcomes in early-treated phenylketonuria: intelligence and executive function
    Kathryn DeRoche
    Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 33:474-504. 2008
    ..The results are discussed in terms of the contributions this meta-analysis makes to our understanding of neurocognitive outcomes in early-treated PKU, as well as suggestions for the conduct and reporting of future research in this area...
  71. ncbi Cognitive evaluation of neurologically asymptomatic boys with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
    Christiane S Cox
    Kennedy Krieger Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Arch Neurol 63:69-73. 2006
    ..X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy should be considered a candidate disorder for neonatal screening...
  72. ncbi Comparison of cognitive function in deaf children between before and after cochlear implant
    Min Sup Shin
    Department of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    Ear Hear 28:22S-28S. 2007
    ..This study was conducted to examine improvements of cognitive abilities after cochlear implantation in deaf children. We also examined the psychosocial factors that predict good outcomes of cochlear implantation...
  73. ncbi An investigation of the measurement properties of the Spot-the-Word test in a community sample
    Andrew MacKinnon
    Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Australia
    Psychol Assess 19:459-68. 2007
    ..The STW is a promising test of ability that, in the future, may be refined by the deletion or replacement of poorly functioning items...
  74. ncbi A dose-effect analysis of children's exposure to dental amalgam and neuropsychological function: the New England Children's Amalgam Trial
    David C Bellinger
    Children s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    J Am Dent Assoc 138:1210-6. 2007
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  75. ncbi Memory and executive functions in pediatric chronic kidney disease
    Debbie S Gipson
    Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7155, USA
    Child Neuropsychol 12:391-405. 2006
    ..While pervasive dysfunction was not apparent in the children with CKD, they clearly appeared to be at risk for lower IQ as well as inefficiencies in key neurocognitive domains...
  76. ncbi An investigation into the relationship among ADHD symptomatology, creativity, and neuropsychological functioning in children
    Dione Healey
    Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Child Neuropsychol 12:421-38. 2006
    ..For all other cognitive measures the creative group with ADHD symptoms outperformed the ADHD group. These findings have implications for the development and management of creative children...
  77. ncbi Profiles of executive function in parents and siblings of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
    D Wong
    School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
    Genes Brain Behav 5:561-76. 2006
    ..However, discrepancies in the EF profile demonstrated by parents and siblings suggest that factors related to age or parental responsibility may affect the precise pattern of deficits observed...
  78. ncbi [Cognitive disturbances in rolandic epilepsy--correlation with electoencephalographic patterns]
    Janusz Wendorff
    Klinika Neurologii Dzieciecej, Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Łodzi, Instytut Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki
    Przegl Lek 63:14-7. 2006
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  79. ncbi Intellectual and language findings and their relationship to EEG characteristics in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
    Daria Riva
    Developmental Neurology Division, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C Besta, Via Celoria 11, Milan, Italy
    Epilepsy Behav 10:278-85. 2007
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  80. ncbi [Assessment of chosen cognitive functions in children and adolescents with primary headaches]
    Małgorzata Zgorzalewicz
    Katedra Profilaktyki Zdrowotnej AM, Pracownia Elektrodiagnostyki Medycznej, 60 355 Poznan, Ul Przybyszewskiego 49
    Przegl Lek 63:24-8. 2006
    ..The aim of the study was to estimate the level of some chosen aspects of cognitive and intellectual functioning of children and adolescents with primary headaches: migraine and tension type (TTH)...
  81. ncbi Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome
    Carolyn B Mervis
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
    Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 13:3-15. 2007
    ..We argue that rather than being the paradigm case for the independence of language from cognition, Williams syndrome provides strong evidence of the interdependence of many aspects of language and cognition...
  82. ncbi Rolandic spikes increase impulsivity in ADHD - a neuropsychological pilot study
    Martin Holtmann
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, J W Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany
    Brain Dev 28:633-40. 2006
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  83. ncbi Chronological age, but not FMRP levels, predicts neuropsychological performance in girls with fragile X syndrome
    Amy A Lightbody
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:468-72. 2006
    ..In contrast, the relative deficits in spatial and verbal abilities of these girls did not appear to increase with age, suggesting that these abilities may be spared...
  84. ncbi Learning, attention, writing, and processing speed in typical children and children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and oppositional-defiant disorder
    Susan Dickerson Mayes
    Department of Psychiatry, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Child Neuropsychol 13:469-93. 2007
    ..Attention, graphomotor, and speed weaknesses were likely to coexist, the majority of children with autism and ADHD had weaknesses in all three areas, and these scores contributed significantly to the prediction of academic achievement...
  85. ncbi White matter anisotropy in post-treatment childhood cancer survivors: preliminary evidence of association with neurocognitive function
    Pek Lan Khong
    Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    J Clin Oncol 24:884-90. 2006
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  86. ncbi A preliminary study of the mini-mental state examination in a Spanish child population
    Sandra Rubial Alvarez
    Section of Behavioral Neurology Institut Municipal d Assistència Sanitària IMAS, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    J Child Neurol 22:1269-73. 2007
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  87. ncbi Implicit memory is independent from IQ and age but not from etiology: evidence from Down and Williams syndromes
    S Vicari
    I R C C S Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, S Marinella, Roma, and LUMSA University, Roma, Italy
    J Intellect Disabil Res 51:932-41. 2007
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  88. ncbi Neurocognitive function profile in HIV-infected school-age children
    Sanneke Koekkoek
    Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Eur J Paediatr Neurol 12:290-7. 2008
    ..Evaluation of neurocognitive function of school-age children with HIV...
  89. ncbi Does the concept of emotional intelligence contribute to our understanding of temporal lobe resections?
    Jodie R Gawryluk
    Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
    Epilepsy Behav 11:421-6. 2007
    ..We concluded that there was no compelling evidence for lateral specialization of EI, although it seems to be a theoretically relevant construct that may be useful in understanding individuals with epilepsy...
  90. ncbi Neuropsychological problems after paediatric stroke: two year follow-up of Swiss children
    J Pavlovic
    University Children s Hospital Berne, Switzerland
    Neuropediatrics 37:13-9. 2006
    ..The aim of this study was to obtain information about neurological and cognitive outcome for a population-based group of children after paediatric ischaemic stroke...
  91. ncbi Neuropsychological function in children with blood lead levels <10 microg/dL
    Pamela J Surkan
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Building, 4th Floor, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neurotoxicology 28:1170-7. 2007
    ..Overall, our analyses support prior research that children's blood levels <10 microg/dL are related to compromised cognition and highlight that these may especially be related to academic achievement...
  92. ncbi Deficits in predictive smooth pursuit after mild traumatic brain injury
    Minah Suh
    Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
    Neurosci Lett 401:108-13. 2006
    ..This is the first report to our knowledge that TBI patients show impaired predictive SPEM and eye position variability, and that these impairments correlate with cognitive deficits...
  93. ncbi Probabilistic reasoning in schizophrenia: a comparison of the performance of deluded and nondeluded schizophrenic patients and exploration of possible cognitive underpinnings
    Mahesh Menon
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
    Cogn Neuropsychiatry 11:521-36. 2006
    ..In order to systematically explore the cognitive underpinnings of this task, we compared deluded and nondeluded patients on a number of experimental manipulations to investigate the role of memory and task pragmatics on performance...
  94. ncbi Cognitive estimation and affective judgments in alcoholic Korsakoff patients
    Matthias Brand
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:324-34. 2003
    ..g., information processing speed) and higher cognitive functions (executive functions and memory), suggesting a common basis in cognitive estimation and in affective judgments in Korsakoff syndrome...
  95. ncbi Effect of side of lesion on neuropsychological performance in childhood stroke
    Jeffrey E Max
    University of California and Children s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, California, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:698-708. 2004
    ..These results have implications for a greater understanding of the ability of the young brain to reorganize after childhood stroke...
  96. ncbi Neuropsychological functioning in children with early-treated phenylketonuria: impact of white matter abnormalities
    Peter J Anderson
    Department of Psychology, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Dev Med Child Neurol 46:230-8. 2004
    ..However, children with no detectable, or mild WMAs, also displayed cognitive problems, indicating that neuropsychological functioning in children with ETPKU is determined by a complex interaction of biological and environmental factors...
  97. ncbi Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale deficits among traumatic brain injury patients, part I: Validation with nongeriatric patients
    Brian Leahy
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 17:474-91. 2003
    ..Receiver Operating Characteristic curves demonstrated sensitivity and specificity rates that ranged from 60% to 100% for clinically meaningful cutting scores...
  98. ncbi Cognitive development in Silver-Russell syndrome: a sibling-controlled study
    Meinolf Noeker
    Department of Paediatrics, Children s Hospital Medical Centre, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 119, D 53113 Bonn, Germany
    Dev Med Child Neurol 46:340-6. 2004
    ..In contrast to the few previous findings, children with SRS show only moderate, but significant, impairments in cognitive outcome, which are more striking in our sample when compared with siblings than with test norms...
  99. ncbi Cognitive functions of young adults who survived childhood cancer
    S Winqvist
    Department of Neurology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
    Appl Neuropsychol 8:224-33. 2001
    ..survivors treatedfor childhood cancer Disease onset before the age of 5 was related to lower test scores in intelligence tests, several memory tests, and motor function tests...
  100. ncbi Modafinil improves cognition and response inhibition in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Danielle C Turner
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Biol Psychiatry 55:1031-40. 2004
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  101. ncbi Cognitive and motor functioning in a patient with selective infarction of the left basal ganglia: evidence for decreased non-routine response selection and performance
    Angela K Troyer
    Psychology Department, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont, Canada M6A 2E1
    Neuropsychologia 42:902-11. 2004
    ....

Research Grants124 found, 100 shown here

  1. Cognitive Derminants of Mild Mental Retardation
    Dasen Luo; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..measures of processing speed, working memory, and long-term memory processing, together with conventional intelligence tests. We will examine whether there is a distinctive cognitive composition of intelligence for the children with ..
  2. Validity of Diagnostic Measures for Autistic Spectrum
    Catherine Lord; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..proposal uses analyses of an existing data set of over 1100 individuals with scores on the ADIR, ADOS, intelligence tests, the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, and clinical best estimate diagnoses, with replication of findings ..
  3. NEURODEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..The results of the study will impact the clinical management of women receiving these medications, and improve the health of their children. ..
  4. Prenatal Cannabis & Cigarette Exposure - Outcome
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..abstract_text> ..
  5. SURGERY FOR INFANTILE SPASMS CORRELATES OF AUTISTIC DISORDER
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..To apply the technique of neural networks to develop reliable and automated measures of neural structures relevant to schizophrenia 7. To examine the relationship between CCTCC abnormalities, symptom patterns, and cognitive performance ..
  6. THOUGHT DISORDER: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY IN EPILEPSY
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..Weekly seizure frequency data will be obtained on a monthly basis from the parent during the 2 years. ..
  7. Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs II
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The NEAD study has an invaluable cohort, and the results of this continuation proposal will impact the clinical management of women receiving these medications, and improve the health of their children. ..
  8. Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs II
    Kimford Meador; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The NEAD study has an invaluable cohort, and the results of this continuation proposal will impact the clinical management of women receiving these medications, and improve the health of their children. ..
  9. Pediatric Thought Disorder: Insights from Neuroimaging
    Rochelle Caplan; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..abstract_text> ..
  10. CANNABIS AND CIGARETTE EXPOSURE-LONG TERM EFFECTS
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 1992
    ..The testing of children of this age is particularly critical as the identification of subtle learning difficulties is most likely to come from studies of this age group...
  11. PRENATAL CANNABIS & CIGARETTE EXPOSURE-LONG TERM EFFECTS
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 1990
    ..The testing of children of this age is particularly critical as the prediction of subtle learning difficulties is most likely to come from studies of this age group...
  12. PRENATAL CANNABIS AND CIGARETTE CONSEQUENCES
    Peter Fried; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ....
  13. Maternal overnutrition and offspring fat mass, metabolic and vascular function.
    Debbie Lawlor; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  14. METHYLPHENIDATE TREATMENT AND PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE
    SARAH MATTSON; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..Knowledge gained from this research will help to provide a more rational basis for the treatment of the well-documented attentional problems in these children. ..
  15. Cognitive Control in Autism
    Marjorie Solomon; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The training and research plans outlined in this application will prepare the Candidate to participate as a senior investigator in efforts to achieve these goals. ..
  16. AUDITORY DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY-AMPLIFIED CHILDREN
    Yvonne Sininger; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ....
  17. Cerebellar structure and function in adult ADHD
    Eve Valera; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  18. GROWTH CURVES OF ADULT INTELLIGENCE BY TIME-LAG TESTING
    John McArdle; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ....
  19. Reward System Recovery Following Behavioral Activation Therapy in Depression
    GABRIEL DICHTER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Such a strategy is consistent with NIMH's mission to reduce the burden of psychiatric disorders. ..
  20. Twins and Singletons with Specific Language Impairment
    Mabel L Rice; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The outcomes will be highly relevant for the identification of children at risk for language disability and the estimation of possible genetic, environmental, and interactive age modulated effects on language and reading acquisition. ..
  21. Memory dissociations and risk for AD versus VaD
    Elizabeth Leritz; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Collectively, this data will provide invaluable clinical and theoretical contributions to the current literature on dementia risk. ..
  22. PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT
    Sean Phipps; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Finally, analyses will explore hypotheses specific to the positive psychology model, testing the role of positive affect and dispositional optimism as mediators and moderators of the intervention on child and parent well being. ..