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High court to examine mental disability, death penalty issue

High court to examine mental disability, death penalty issue

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HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death…

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Stuttering related to brain circuits that control speech production

Stuttering related to brain circuits that control speech production

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Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have conducted the first study of its kind, using proton magnetic resonance…

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Research Bytes: Efficient hubs in the intelligent brain: Nodal efficiency of hub regions in the salience network is associated with general intelligence via BrowZine

Efficient hubs in the intelligent brain: Nodal efficiency of hub regions in the salience network is associated with general intelligence
Hilger, Kirsten; Ekman, Matthias; Fiebach, Christian J.; Basten, Ulrike
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Global brain initiatives generate tsunami of neuroscience data

Global brain initiatives generate tsunami of neuroscience data

Three years ago the White House launched the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to…

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Research Bytes: Multigenerational Head Start Participation: An Unexpected Marker of Progress via BrowZine

Multigenerational Head Start Participation: An Unexpected Marker of Progress
Chor, Elise
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Musical training creates new brain connections in children

Musical training creates new brain connections in children

"It's been known that musical instruction benefits children with these disorders," said Pilar Dies-Suarez, M.D., chief radiologist at the…

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Research Bytes: A Systematic Examination of the Linguistic Demand of Cognitive Test Directions Administered to School-Age Populations

A Systematic Examination of the Linguistic Demand of Cognitive Test Directions Administered to School-Age Populations

1. Damien C. Cormier1⇑
2. Okan Bulut1
3. Deepak Singh1
4. Kathleen E. Kennedy1
5. Kun Wang1
6. Alethea Heudes1
7. Adam J. Lekwa2

1. ¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2. ²Rutgers University, New Burnswick, NJ, USA

1. Damien C. Cormier, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, 6-107E Education North, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5. Email: dcormier@ualberta.ca

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The selection and interpretation of individually administered norm-referenced cognitive tests that are administered to culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students continue to be an important consideration within the psychoeducational assessment process. Understanding test directions during the assessment of cognitive abilities is important, considering the high-stakes nature of these assessments. Therefore, the linguistic demand of spoken test directions from the following commonly used cognitive test batteries was examined and compared: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V), Woodcock–Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG), Cognitive Assessment System, Second Edition (CAS2), and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition (KABC-II). On average, the linguistic demand of the standard test directions was greater than the linguistic demand of the supplementary test directions. When examining individual test characteristics, very few individual tests were identified as outliers with respect to the linguistic demand of their test directions. This finding differs from previous research and suggests that the linguistic demand of the required directions for most tests included in commonly used cognitive batteries is similar. Implications for future research and test development are discussed

Research Bytes: Cognitive Clusters in Specific Learning Disorder

Cognitive Clusters in Specific Learning Disorder

1. Michele Poletti, PsyD1⇑
2. Elisa Carretta, MS2,3
3. Laura Bonvicini, MS2,3
4. Paolo Giorgi-Rossi, PhD2,3

1. ¹Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Service, AUSL of Reggio Emilia, Italy
2. ²Inter-Institutional Epidemiological Unit, AUSL of Reggio Emilia, Italy
3. ³Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy

1. Michele Poletti, Department of Mental Health and Pathological Addiction, Child Neuropsychiatry Service, AUSL of Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Email: michele.poletti2@ausl.re.it

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The heterogeneity among children with learning disabilities still represents a barrier and a challenge in their conceptualization. Although a dimensional approach has been gaining support, the categorical approach is still the most adopted, as in the recent fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The introduction of the single overarching diagnostic category of specific learning disorder (SLD) could underemphasize interindividual clinical differences regarding intracategory cognitive functioning and learning proficiency, according to current models of multiple cognitive deficits at the basis of neurodevelopmental disorders. The characterization of specific cognitive profiles associated with an already manifest SLD could help identify possible early cognitive markers of SLD risk and distinct trajectories of atypical cognitive development leading to SLD. In this perspective, we applied a cluster analysis to identify groups of children with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual–based diagnosis of SLD with similar cognitive profiles and to describe the association between clusters and SLD subtypes. A sample of 205 children with a diagnosis of SLD were enrolled. Cluster analyses (agglomerative hierarchical and nonhierarchical iterative clustering technique) were used successively on 10 core subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition. The 4-cluster solution was adopted, and external validation found differences in terms of SLD subtype frequencies and learning proficiency among clusters. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed, tracing directions for further studies.