ABSTRACT
A small group of children with various types of immunodeficiency disorders, examined on a battery of neuropsychological and intellectual tests, was found to be impaired on perceptual speed, visuospatial sequencing, and visual attention span capacities when compared to a control group of closest aged siblings and normal children matched for age, education, and IQ. The results suggest that cerebral dysfunction may be associated with immunodeficiency disorders in children, although these findings are tentative since other factors, such as the effects of chronic illness, could not be excluded in this small cohort of patients.
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/psychology , Neurocognitive Disorders/psychology , Neuropsychological Tests , Adolescent , Attention , Auditory Perception , Child , Female , Humans , Intelligence , Male , Mental Recall , Verbal Learning , Visual PerceptionABSTRACT
Hemispheric laterality, measured by the Wechsler Verbal IQ-Performance IQ differential score, in a large group of delinquents (N = 101) was not associated with violent-nonviolent behavior. Delinquents were, however, likely to be relatively more impaired on verbal than on nonverbal intellectual capacities.
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Functional Laterality , Intelligence , Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Violence , Adolescent , Female , Humans , Male , Wechsler ScalesABSTRACT
Adolescent sons of alcoholic, depressed, and normal fathers were compared on a measure of static ataxia, or body sway. It was found that the young males at risk for developing alcoholism were more ataxic than the sons of depressed fathers and normal controls. The possibility that static ataxia may be a premorbid marker for detecting males at heightened risk for alcoholism is discussed.
