The influence of neurological and demographic variables on neuropsychological test performance was examined in 100 9-to 16-year-old children with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative contributions of coma, neuroimaging findings, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender to variance in performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Chil...

The use of cognitive subtest profiles to hypothesize about children's learning strengths and weaknesses implicitly assumes that subtest profiles are predictive of academic performance. To test this assumption, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) subtest profiles were decomposed into elevation, scatter, and shape components and sequentially regressed onto reading an...

Purpose: To explore the presence of subtypes of intellectual functioning in children with mild intellectual disability (ID) and to externally validate the subtypes on measures of academic, adaptive and psychosocial functioning. Method: Participants were 167 children age 6-16 years with a mild ID. All children completed the WISC-III, WIAT, VABS, and PIC-R. Results: Based on a two-stage cluster a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the connection between otitis media in the language acquisition years and the occurrence of delayed reading between the ages of 8 and 10. METHOD Participants were 40 children, half of whom had a history of otitis media between the ages of birth and three years and half who were free of the disease. These children, now ages 8-10, were tested with the WISC-R and a varie...

Objective: Accumulating data in the literature suggest that cytokines may be one of the factors influencing cognitive development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study investigated whether cytokines influence cognitive development in children with ASD. Methods: The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISCIII or WISC-IV depending on the time of testing) was administered to 1...

Background. Neuro-feedback (NFB) and physical activities are considered alternative treatments for children with ADHD that aims to optimize brain activity. Assessments of the behavioral efficacy of NF and physical interventions have produced inconsistent results. Like physical activity, yoga has been argued to be beneficial for improvement of neurological and physiological activity and behavior...

Objective: Accumulating data in the literature suggest that cytokines may be one of the factors influencing cognitive development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study investigated whether cytokines influence cognitive development in children with ASD. Methods: The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISCIII or WISC-IV depending on the time of testing) was administered to 1...

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