Pediatric heart transplantation has become a mainstay in the treatment of end-stage heart disease in infants and children. There is, however, sparse information on post-transplant developmental and cognitive functioning. At Loma Linda University Children's Hospital 223 infants have undergone heart transplantation surgery with a survival rate of 73% (n=165). This article reports on four areas of...

Case presentation: A 7-year-old boy who has been severely brain-injured in a car accident February 2016. Initially, Glasgow coma scale was 7. He needed decompressive craniectomy and ventriculoperitoneal shunt. At first, he tetraplegic, without ability for locomotion. His initial MRI including DW, CSD tractography spectroscopy showed frontal parietal hemorrhage, parenchymal contusions, areas of ...

The practice of combining forward and backward memory span, as represented so prominently on the various Wechsler Scales, to arrive at a composite score for clinical interpretation is examined historically and actuarially using a large (N = 1,342) nationally stratified random sample of children from ages 5 years through 19 years. Past literature does not support the additive nature of forward a...

Though the Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test (IVA + Plus) is commonly used by researchers and clinicians, few investigations have assessed its convergent and discriminant validity, especially with regard to its use with children. The present study details correlates of the IVA + Plus using measures of cognitive ability and ratings of child behavior (parent and teacher),...

[This corrects the article on p. 439 in vol. 108.].