Researchers reduce IQ exam length while maintaining accuracy Date:June 24, 2020 Source:University of Missouri-Columbia Summary:For decades, neuropsychologists have used the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children test as the gold-standard intelligence quotient (IQ) test to determine the intellectual abilities of children with special needs. However, this comprehensive test can take up to 2 hours [...]
Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain Date:February 27, 2020 Source:University of Cambridge Summary:Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more strongly related to children's difficulties. FULL [...]
Medical challenges at birth less important than stressful home life in predicting future psychiatric health Date:August 26, 2019 Source:Washington University School of Medicine Summary:Researchers have found that as premature babies grow, their mental health may be related less to the medical challenges they face after birth than to the environment the babies enter [...]
This is a potential mechanistic underpinning -- at least in a subset of patients -- for the altered behaviors observed in autism Date:July 23, 2019 Source:University of Alabama at Birmingham Summary:A de novo gene mutation that encodes a brain protein in a child with autism has been placed into the brains of mice. [...]
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The frequency of genetic variants associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Date:May 27, 2020 Source:University of Barcelona Summary:The frequency of genetic variants associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has decreased progressively in the evolutionary human lineage from the Paleolithic to the present day, according to new research. Full Story The frequency of genetic [...]
