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Greenstein, Deanna; Lerch, Jason; Shaw, Philip; Clasen, Liv; Giedd, Jay; Gochman, Peter; Rapoport, Judith; Gogtay, Nitin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Childhood onset schizophrenia (COS) is a rare but severe form of the adult onset disorder. While structural brain imaging studies show robust, widespread, and progressive gray matter loss in COS during adolescence, there have been no longitudinal studies of sufficient duration to examine comparability with the more common adult onset…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Neurology, Children
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Devous, Michael D., Sr.; Altuna, Dianne; Furl, Nicholas, Cooper, William; Gabbert, Gretchen; Ngai, Wei Tat; Chiu, Stephanie; Scott, Jack M., III; Harris, Thomas S.; Payne, J. Kelly; Tobey, Emily A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study explores the relationship between age and resting-state regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in regions associated with higher order language skills using a population of normal children, adolescents, and young adults. Method: rCBF was measured in 33 normal participants between the ages of 7 and 19 years using single photon…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Young Adults, Neurology, Age Differences
Goddard, Sally – 1996
This book describes a neuro-developmental approach to learning difficulty assessment and remediation through assessment of a student's reception of information through the sensory channels, processing of sensory information in the brain, and repertoire of responses for expression. Chapter 1, "Reflexes: Their Impact on Success or Failure in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Struve, Nancy – 1982
The unit provides information on the study of the human brain for students in grades 5-9 with suggestions for extending the lessons for gifted and talented students. Learning activities are offered for ten lessons (sample subtopics in parentheses); introduction to the unit (student pretest and posttest); brain growth; medulla-oblongata-reptilian…
Descriptors: Brain, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Gifted
Reddy, G. N. Narayana, Ed.; Gopalakrishna, N., Ed. – 1986
The development of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India, is chronicled over its 10-year history. The volume begins with an examination of the Institute's organization and administration, funding, staffing, teaching activities, etc. Subsequently, reports from 26 departments of NIMHANS are…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Foreign Countries, Medical Services, Mental Disorders
Hertzig, Margaret E.; and others – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1969
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Research, Hyperactivity, Learning Disabilities
Friedman, Alinda; And Others – 1981
A model was tested in which it was assumed that the left and right cerebral hemispheres have access to independent supplies of resources, which they may use in most kinds of information processing situations. Eight male subjects were specifically selected for having demonstrated a strong right-hand superiority on several manual tasks, and a strong…
Descriptors: Attention, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education
Noonan, Roberta L. – 1977
This case study reviews the literature related to diet, behavior and learning and describes procedures and results of a change in the diet of an adolescent girl who had an extensive history of problems at home and at school. Studies of nutritional deficiency, nutritional imbalance, allergies, and synthetic food additives are briefly overviewed.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Toepfer, Conrad F. – 1980
Research findings in the area of brain growth periodization establish that the human brain does not grow on a constant continuum. Eighty-five to ninety percent of youngsters of average and above ability experience periods of great brain growth between ages 3-10 months, 2-4 years, 6-8 years, 10-12 years, and 14-16+ years. Mental growth data have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Brain
Mednick, Sarnoff A.; And Others – 1977
Reported is a research program to observe children at high risk for schizophrenia and explore possibilities of prevention. Characteristics of the high risk group (n=207) observed during 1962 are discussed, and a theory which suggests that schizophrenia is an evasion of life is explained. Among results of a diagnostic assessment conducted 10 years…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Etiology, Exceptional Child Research, Mothers
Harris, Lauren Jay – 1973
Some of the major lines of investigation that point to neurophysiological factors in spatial skill are presented. These lines include: the two hemispheres of the brain, recent studies, tachistoscopic studies, morphological differences between the cerebral hemispheres, Geschwind and Levitsky's discovery, cerebral dominance re-examined, sex…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Lateral Dominance, Literature Reviews, Neurological Organization
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Wilson, James J.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1975
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Children, Cognitive Development, Exceptional Child Research
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Amante, Dominic – Journal of Special Education, 1975
Investigated was the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and neurological pathology in a random sample of 508 fourth- and fifth-grade children. (CL)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups
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Evans, P. L. C.; Hogg, J. H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
This study relates excitatory and inhibitory personality variables of a heterogeneous group of severely retarded children to performance on a discrete trial, successive go-no-go intradimensional discrimination learning problem, which was followed by stimulus generalization tests on a color hue continuum and extinction trials. (GO)
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Individual Differences
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Walsh, Terrence; Diller, Karl – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
A study of the functional aspects of Wernicke's and Broca's areas of the cerebral cortex and their relationship to second language learning and ability. Some implications are drawn regarding second language teaching and methodology. There seems to be a relationship between methodology and the neurological mechanism used by students. (AMH)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Instruction, Language Research, Language Universals
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