Investigated preschoolers' playmate preferences for line drawings of a physically normal child, one with a facial scar, one wearing a leg brace, and one sitting in a wheelchair for several contexts: classroom, eating, reading, television, and playground. Difference in preferences for age, gender, ethnic group, and context were investigated. No gender differences were found. African American chi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this case report is to describe the outcome of a patient following fixation of a midshaft femur fracture and an evaluation-based, immediate-weight-bearing approach to rehabilitation. CASE DESCRIPTION The patient was a 28-year-old male manual laborer whose left femur was fractured in a head-on motor vehicle accident. The patient was treated with internal f...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is mainly described as a of communication and socialization. However, motor abnormalities are also common in ASD. New technologies may offer quantitative automatic metrics to measure movement difficulties. We sought identify computational methods automatize the assessment impairments systematically searched for terms ’autism’, ’movement’, ’automatic’, ’computation...

BACKGROUND Impairments in executive function characterize offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and offenders with psychopathy. However, the extent to which those impairments are associated with ASPD, psychopathy, or both is unknown. METHODS The present study examined 17 violent offenders with ASPD and psychopathy (ASPD+P), 28 violent offenders with ASPD without psychopathy (A...

Although the gross deficits of diseases of the brain have been extensively characterized, few studies have examined their associated cognitive impairments. Interest has focused recently on the language and cognitive impairments that develop following encephalitis. The symptoms of impairments following the disease were determined mainly by examining hospital records of those previously admitted ...