Intelligence Tests

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IQ in childhood psychiatric attendees predicts outcome of later schizophrenia at 21 year follow-up.

OBJECTIVE: Preschizophrenic children who merit psychiatric referral are claimed to have a particularly malevolent illness when the psychosis develops later. The 21 years outcome of a sample of such children was investigated. METHOD: Fifty-one children ...
J C Munro, A J Russell, R M Murray, R W Kerwin, P B Jones (Acta Psychiatr Scand, 200208)
iq-childhood-psychiatric-attendees-predicts-outcome-later.asp

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Cognitive change and the APOE epsilon 4 allele.

There is a marked variation in whether people retain sufficient cognitive function to maintain their quality of life and independence in old age, even among those without dementia, so it would be valuable to identify the determinants of normal ...
Ian J Deary, Martha C Whiteman, Alison Pattie, John M Starr, Caroline Hayward, Alan F Wright, Andrew Carothers, Lawrence J Whalley (Nature, 200208)
cognitive-change-apoe-epsilon-allele.asp

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Cognitive function effects of suppressing ovarian hormones in young women.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of a pharmacologically induced, temporary suppression of ovarian hormones on healthy young womens cognitive functioning. DESIGN: Sixteen healthy women with normal menstrual cycles completed the California Verbal Learning ...
Jane F Owens, Karen A Matthews, Susan A Everson (Menopause, 200207-08)
cognitive-function-effects-suppressing-ovarian-hormones-young-women.asp

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Longitudinal assessment of premorbid cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia through examination of standardized scholastic test performance.

OBJECTIVE: Studies suggest the presence of premorbid cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia, yet the onset and course of these deficits remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal course of premorbid ...
Rebecca Fuller, Peg Nopoulos, Stephan Arndt, Dan OLeary, Beng-Choon Ho, Nancy C Andreasen (Am J Psychiatry, 200207)
longitudinal-assessment-premorbid-cognitive-functioning-patients.asp

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The BREV neuropsychological test: Part I. Results from 500 normally developing children.

The Battery for Rapid Evaluation of Cognitive Functions (Batterie Rapide dEvaluation des Fonctions Cognitives: BREV) was designed to provide health professionals with a quick clinical tool for screening acquired and developmental cognitive deficits in ...
C Billard, M O Livet, J Motte, L Vallée, P Gillet (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200206)
brev-neuropsychological-test-part-results--normally-developing.asp

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Predicting cognitive impairment in high-functioning community-dwelling older persons: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging.

OBJECTIVES: To examine whether simple cognitive tests, when applied to cognitively intact older persons, are useful predictors of cognitive impairment 7 years later. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Durham, North Carolina; East Boston, Massachusetts; and ...
Joshua Chodosh, David B Reuben, Marilyn S Albert, Teresa E Seeman (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200206)
predicting-cognitive-impairment-high-functioning-community-dwelling.asp

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The BREV neuropsychological test: Part II. Results of validation in children with epilepsy.

The Battery for Rapid Evaluation of Cognitive Functions (Batterie Rapide dEvaluation des Fonctions Cognitives: BREV) is a quick test to screen children with higher-functioning disorders and to define the patterns of their disorders. After standardization ...
C Billard, J Motte, M Farmer, M O Livet, L Vallée, P Gillet, S Vol (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200206)
brev-neuropsychological-test-part-ii-results-validation-children.asp

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Breast-feeding and gender as moderators of teratogenic effects on cognitive development.

Researchers in the Netherlands have reported that the associations of prenatal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure with poorer cognitive performance in childhood are generally stronger and statistically significant only among non-breast-fed children. ...
Joseph L Jacobson, Sandra W Jacobson (Neurotoxicol Teratol, 200205-06)
breast-feeding-gender-moderators-teratogenic-effects-cognitive.asp

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From the Binet-Simon to the Wechsler-Bellevue: tracing the history of intelligence testing.

The history of David Wechslers intelligence scales is reviewed by tracing the origins of the subtests in the 1939 Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale. The subtests originated from tests developed between 1880 and World War I, and was based on approaches ...
Corwin Boake (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200205)
binet-simon-wechsler-bellevue-tracing-history-intelligence-testing.asp

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Application of hierarchical genetic models to Raven and WAIS subtests: a Dutch twin study.

Hierarchical models of intelligence are highly informative and widely accepted. Application of these models to twin data, however, is sparse. This paper addresses the question of how a genetic hierarchical model fits the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ...
Frühling V Rijsdijk, P A Vernon, Dorret I Boomsma (Behav Genet, 200205)
application-hierarchical-genetic-models-raven-wais-subtests-dutch.asp