Verbal deception from late childhood to middle adolescence and its relation to executive functioning skills.

Executive function in adolescents born <1000 g or <28 weeks: a prospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Extremely preterm (EP; <28 weeks) birth and extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) are risk factors for poor cognitive outcomes, including in executive function (EF; higher-order cognitive skills necessary for goal-directed, adaptive functioning and important for academic and behavioral-emotional outcomes). We aimed to (1) extend the limited data on EF in EP/ELBW s...

Running head: Executive functioning in relation to proactive and reactive aggression Executive functioning in relation to proactive and reactive aggression in childhood and adolescence

آموزش مهارت های اجتماعی به کودکان مبتلا به اختلال نارسایی توجه/ بیش فعالی

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is defined based on difficulties in attention, inhibition, impulsivity control, and activity level. Based on the research results, children with ADHD are faced with problems in important areas such as working memory and executive functions. These functions will allow the child to monitor his behavior and alter it accordingly. Often, the child’s difficult...

Executive functions in children aged 6 to 13: a dimensional and developmental study.

A cross-sectional study using 92 children aged 6 to 13 years investigated the dimensionality and the development of executive functioning. The measures were drawn from developmentally relevant conceptualizations of executive functioning and included a go/no-go task, a verbal fluency task, a continuous performance task, a Stroop-like task, a hand movements task, and a digit span task. Analyses r...

Neuropsychological functioning in children with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with deficits in the areas of verbal memory and learning, executive functioning, working memory, and attention in adults. Findings have been less consistent in the few studies examining neuropsychological functioning in childhood PTSD, which are often limited by comparing children with PTSD to children without trauma histories, making it ...