G A A b st ra ct s association of anxiety and gastrointestinal disorders in these children. Increased severity of anxiety symptoms is associated with the diagnosis of Asperger's and with higher IQ in children with ASD. Whether or not there is any relationship between anxiety and GI symptoms in children with ASD is not known Objectives: To characterize chronic GI symptoms in children with ASDs a...

This study examined children from an unselected birth cohort who had Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) verbal and performance IQ discrepancies that placed them beyond the 90th percentile. It was hypothesized that, relative to their cohort peers, these children would be characterized by greater frequency of perinatal difficulties, early childhood neurological abnormalitie...

The extraordinary giftedness is apparently a unique manifestation of a mutual interconnection between genes and environment. One of the possible etiological factors of intellectual giftedness is testosterone which is believed to affect the brain organization and function. The aim of our study was to analyze associations between 2D:4D digit ratio (a proxy of prenatal testosterone) and/or salivar...

This longitudinal study examined internalizing behavior problems (anxiety/depression) in early adolescence in relation to adversity in early childhood and child verbal competence. We hypothesized that verbal competence would act as a protective factor in the face of early adversity, that is, high verbal IQ would predict relatively lower internalizing problems in early adolescence primarily for ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of conditions that show abnormalities in the neuroanatomy of multiple brain regions. The variability in the development of intelligence and language among individuals on the autism spectrum has long been acknowledged, but it remains unknown whether these differences impact on the neuropathology of ASD. In this study, we aimed to compare associations b...

Adaptive deficits are commonly found in high functioning autism spectrum disorders (HF-ASD) despite of cognitive potential. Most studies have focused on the relationships between adaptive behavior and intellectual quotient (IQ) and have used correlations to study relationships between them. Few studies have analyzed cognitive variables other than IQ as potential predictors of adaptive behavior ...

PURPOSE To evaluate intelligence quotient (IQ) in patients with congenital strabismus. METHODS All patients with congenital strabismus scheduled for surgery were enrolled consecutively over a one year period in a cross-sectional study and were evaluated for verbal, performance and total IQ scores, and compared to the mean normal IQ of 100±15. RESULTS During the study period, 109 patients wi...

Abstract Background Children with specific language impairment (SLI) fail to develop age-appropriate despite being apparently normal in other respects. Those children usually have abnormal speech perception noise. This work is designed investigate background noise those children. It included two groups of children: control group (15 typical development) and study (25 diagnosed SLI). All were su...