Intelligence Tests

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The psychosocial functioning of children and spouses of adults with ADHD.

BACKGROUND: It is unclear what the impact of parental ADHD is on the day-to-day life of the rest of the family and how it contributes to the intergenerational transmission of this disorder. METHOD: The psychosocial functioning of 23 spouses and 63 ...
Klaus Minde, Laurel Eakin, Lily Hechtman, Eric Ochs, Rachelle Bouffard, Brian Greenfield, Karl Looper (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200305)
psychosocial-functioning-children-spouses-adults-adhd.asp

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The Scottish mental survey 1932 linked to the Midspan studies: a prospective investigation of childhood intelligence and future health.

The Scottish mental survey of 1932 (SMS1932) recorded mental ability test scores for nearly all children born in 1921 and at school in Scotland on 1 June 1932. The Collaborative and Renfrew/Paisley studies, two of the Midspan studies, obtained health and ...
C L Hart, I J Deary, M D Taylor, P L MacKinnon, G Davey Smith, L J Whalley, V Wilson, D J Hole, J M Starr (Public Health, 200305)
scottish-mental-survey--linked-midspan-studies-prospective.asp

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Sexual-orientation-related differences in verbal fluency.

This study examined the performance of 60 heterosexual men, 60 gay men, 60 heterosexual women, and 60 lesbians on 3 tests of verbal fluency known to show gender differences: letter, category, and synonym fluency. Gay men and lesbians showed opposite-sex ...
Qazi Rahman, Sharon Abrahams, Glenn D Wilson (Neuropsychology, 200304)
sexual-orientation-related-differences-verbal-fluency.asp

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Redundancy gain in the acallosal brain.

The authors measured simple reaction time (RT) to visual stimuli, presented either singly to 1 or the other visual field or in bilaterally presented pairs, to 2 women with callosal agenesis. The stimuli were either white against a black background or ...
Melodie S Barr, Michael C Corballis (Neuropsychology, 200304)
redundancy-gain-acallosal-brain.asp

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Cognitive impairment in anorexia nervosa is not due to depressed mood.

OBJECTIVE: Previous research has revealed cognitive deficits in patients with anorexia nervosa. It is unclear whether these deficits are linked to co-morbid depression in this population. We examined the relationship between depressive symptoms and ...
Bradley D McDowell, David J Moser, Karin Ferneyhough, Wayne A Bowers, Arnold E Andersen, Jane S Paulsen (Int J Eat Disord, 200304)
cognitive-impairment-anorexia-nervosa-not-depressed-mood.asp

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Longitudinal changes in higher-level functional capacity of an older population living in a Japanese urban community.

This study examined the present state and longitudinal changes in higher-level functional capacity in a Japanese urban community. Persons aged 65-84 years living in a suburb of central Tokyo participated in a baseline survey held in 1991 (n = 814) and ...
Yoshinori Fujiwara, Shoji Shinkai, Shu Kumagai, Hidenori Amano, Yuko Yoshida, Hideyo Yoshida, Hunkyung Kim, Takao Suzuki, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Hiroshi Haga, Shuichiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Shibata (Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 200303-04)
longitudinal-changes-higher-level-functional-capacity-older.asp

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Information criteria for pairwise comparisons.

A new approach is presented for the interpretation of differences among means and proportions. Post hoc techniques, such as Tukeys honestly significant difference procedure, have interpretive problems related to intransitive decisions and technical ...
C Mitchell Dayton (Psychol Methods, 200303)
information-criteria-pairwise-comparisons.asp

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Neural mechanisms of general fluid intelligence.

We used an individual-differences approach to test whether general fluid intelligence (gF) is mediated by brain regions that support attentional (executive) control, including subregions of the prefrontal cortex. Forty-eight participants first completed ...
Jeremy R Gray, Christopher F Chabris, Todd S Braver (Nat Neurosci, 200303)
neural-mechanisms-general-fluid-intelligence.asp

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Preliminary evaluation of a scale to assess cognitive function in adults with Downs syndrome: the Prudhoe Cognitive Function Test.

BACKGROUND: In the clinical diagnosis of dementia in Downs syndrome (DS), it may be difficult to distinguish between cognitive deterioration and the various degrees of pre-existing intellectual disability (ID). Serial measurements of both cognitive ...
D W K Kay, S P Tyrer, M L Margallo-Lana, P B Moore, R Fletcher, T P Berney, E Vithayathil (J Intellect Disabil Res, 200303)
preliminary-evaluation-scale-assess-cognitive-function-adults-down-s.asp

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Extratemporal quantitative MR volumetrics and neuropsychological status in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Neuropsychological studies of temporal lobe epilepsy have focused heavily on the nature and extent of memory dysfunction and its relationship to the neuropathological status of the hippocampus and related mesial temporal lobe structures. In this study, ...
Bruce Hermann, Michael Seidenberg, Brian Bell, Paul Rutecki, Raj D Sheth, Gary Wendt, Daniel OLeary, Vince Magnotta (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
extratemporal-quantitative-mr-volumetrics-neuropsychological-status.asp