OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of an age-appropriate additional parenting intervention for very preterm born toddlers. STUDY DESIGN In a randomized controlled pilot study, 60 of 94 eligible very preterm born children who had received a responsive parenting intervention in their first year were randomized to usual care or the additional intervention, consisting of...

The aim of this study was to assess wayfinding abilities in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). The ability to learn routes though a virtual environment (VE) and to make a novel shortcut between two locations was assessed in individuals with DS (N=10) and control participants individually matched on mental age (MA) or chronological age (CA). The results showed that most of the participants wit...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The assessment of whether brain development is at an appropriate level for age has become an integral part of clinical MR reporting, although few studies have quantitatively defined the developmental changes occurring in premature infants. We have developed a simple scoring system to assess four parameters of cerebral maturation--myelination, cortical folding, glial cell ...

Using 103,133 news items collected from Daum News, the second most popular news portal in South Korea, we provide multidimensional analyses of gender and age differences in news consumption. We quantify such differences in four different dimensions: 1) by actual news items; 2) by topic 3) by issue; and 4) by angle. We found that angle preferences can better explain the difference of news consum...

how, because of these facts, methods of training should be modified. With a physical organism poorly developed one would expect an unsatisfactory mental condition, and one finds that "The conclusion, justified by the data, that physical superiority usually accompanies mental superiority, is of the greatest practical importance for education." The chapter on physiological age is certainly not th...

tests are less verbal in character than formerly and make use of attractive performance material; at the upper levels, the dependence upon rote memory has been reduced, and two supplementary " superior adult" tests have been added. The range of both the new scales is extended at both upper and lower levels so that it is possible now to obtain a measure of Mental Age between 2-22? years inclusiv...