Health-related physical fitness, academic achievement, and neuroelectric measures in children and adolescents Chien-Heng Chu, Feng-Tzu Chen, Matthew B. Pontifex, Yanlin Sun & Yu-Kai Chang To cite this article: Chien-Heng Chu, Feng-Tzu Chen, Matthew B. Pontifex, Yanlin Sun & YuKai Chang (2016): Health-related physical fitness, academic achievement, and neuroelectric measures in children and adol...

An intergenerational program bringing together older adults with dementia and preschool children in one-on-one interactions is described. Montessori activities, which have strong ties to physical and occupational therapy, as well as to theories of developmental and cognitive psychology, are used as the context for these interactions. Our experience indicates that older adults with dementia can ...

in 1921 within the New York School of Social Work. The Bureau served the triple purpose of providing a clinic for the treatment of nervous or difficult children, a research unit for investigation into problems of normal and abnormal psychology, and a field for the practical training of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. The Bureau was maintained in its virginal form for five and o...

The article is devoted to two collections of works for children by F. M. Dostoevsky, compiled his widow Anna Grigorievna: “A selection from the Dostoevsky secondary school-age (over 14 years age),” edited V. Ya. Stoyunin in 1887, and “Dostoevsky children,” published 1897 under A. Kruglov’s editorship. Dostoevskaya’s collaboration with professionals experts child psychology, Kruglov, allowed her...

Learning new information constitutes a fundamental part of children's school years. Reently, studies have found beneficial effects emotion on learning and memory. Here, we specifically examined the effect positive emotional prosody content in two groups Swedish children (ages 8–10 11–13 years). The participants listened to auditory spoken or neutral tone voice were asked content-based questions...

Childhood is an important period for personality formation, cognition and social development. physical mental trauma the key reason development of many serious diseases. Severe traumatic events can cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Children’s psychological adjustment tolerance are generally lower than adults, it difficult children to seek reasonable help after suffering events. Child...

Background. The relevance of the article is determined by importance summarizing and highlighting many-sided contribution to practice education E.O. Smirnova on eve her 75th birthday. Objective. \e aim describe main directions results Smirnova’s e]ort implement scientiAc practical developments achieved sciences colleagues in Laboratory for Mental Development Preschoolers at PI RAE Center Games ...

OBJECTIVE To summarize recent research on sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and consider the potential relevance of SCT for the field of pediatric psychology. METHODS Literature review. RESULTS Recent empirical evidence shows SCT symptoms consisting of sluggish/sleepy and daydreamy behaviors to be distinct from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Atte...

In the two and one-half decades from 1940 to 1965, the concepts, methods, and viewpoint of learning theory dominated the scene in psychology. There were, of course, significant and important developments in perception, the cognitive and social development of children, etc. All the same, it is a fair summary to think of these decades as the decades of the intellectual ascendancy of learning theo...

Affiliations: 1 Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 2 Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 3 Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 4 Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Psychia...