Profile of students referred for the assessment of scholastic backwardness at a tertiary care center
Background: Scholastic backwardness (SB) is a challenging problem affecting school-going children. Students seeking evaluation and certification of SB, especially in class nine and ten are on a rising trend in Kerala, the most literate state in India ...
Smitha Ramadas, Vimy V. Vijayan
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Mapping dynamic interactions among cognitive biases in depression [PDF]
Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not characterize how biases in cognitive processes such as attention and memory work ...
Bernstein, Amit +3 more
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Specific Learning Disorders and Eating Disorders: an Italian retrospective study
Abstract Background Although Anorexia Nervosa (AN) patients show dysfunctional behaviour in information processing, visual and verbal memory performance, and different cognitive fields, regardless of their BMI, the literature on the correlations between Eating Disorders (ED) and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) does ...
Salvatore Ferdinando Aruta +4 more
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The influence of working memory load on response inhibition in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or reading disorder [PDF]
The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between response inhibition and working memory in 8-12-year-old children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 19), reading disorder (RD; n = 17), ADHD + RD (n = 21), and ...
Roeyers, Herbert +3 more
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Literacy and mental disorders [PDF]
Purpose of review: This review examines recent evidence on the comorbidity between literacy problems and psychiatric disorder in childhood and discusses possible contributory factors.
Angold +29 more
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Background: Dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are marked comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders with an estimated bidirectional comorbidity of 25% – 40%.
Sandra Stark +3 more
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Protocol for a randomized controlled trial examining multilevel prediction of response to behavioral activation and exposure-based therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Only 40-60% of patients with generalized anxiety disorder experience long-lasting improvement with gold standard psychosocial interventions. Identifying neurobehavioral factors that predict treatment success might provide specific targets for ...
Abelson, J +14 more
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Enhancement of psychosocial treatment with D-cycloserine: models, moderators, and future directions [PDF]
Advances in the understanding of the neurobiology of fear extinction have resulted in the development of d-cycloserine (DCS), a partial glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate agonist, as an augmentation strategy for exposure treatment.
de Kleine, Rianne A. +8 more
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Procedural discourse production in children with specific learning disorder (SLD)
Background: The term ‘Specific Learning Disorder’ which is commonly used in federal and state law, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) interferes with a student’s ability to listen, think, speak, write, spell, or do ...
Maria J. +3 more
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BACKGROUND: The present study was conducted with the aim of examining and comparing different components of executive functions (inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, working memory, planning) of 3 groups of children with attention-deficit ...
Asiyeh Khaledi
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