Category: Child Neuropsychology
Cognitive training programs for childhood cancer patients and survivors: A critical review and future directions
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss past and current cognitive training programs intended to remediate or prevent neurocognitive deficits among pediatric cancer patients and survivors. 2. Discuss training program strengths and weaknesses, as well as increase familiarity…
Cumulative Neurological Factors Associated with Long-term Outcomes in Adult Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss how the Neurological Predictor Scale (NPS) relates to intellectual and adaptive outcomes 15 years post diagnosis in adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors. 2. Discuss how the NPS may aid research…
The Effect of Age-at-Testing on Verbal Memory among Children Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss why verbal memory difficulties might be underdiagnosed among young children (below 12 years of age) after traumatic brain injury when using the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). 2. Discuss how…
Prenatal SSRI exposure: Effects on later child development
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the interactive processes of the pre- and postnatal environment in relation to child development, and how this may contribute to behavioral problems amongst children with prenatal exposure to SSRIs. 2. Describe methodological…
Cognitive estimations of a measure of executive dysfunction in childhood epilepsy
Learning Objectives: Discuss the prevalence and nature of executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Discuss the cognitive demands of estimation tasks and the nature of cognitive estimation deficits in children and adolescents with…
Individual cognitive patterns and developmental trajectories after preterm birth
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss how preterm-born individuals can be characterized by distinct multivariate cognitive patterns and developmental trajectories from pre-school age to adolescence. 2. Discuss the value of complementing the more common variable-based analysis with a…
Diurnal cortisol rhythm and cognitive functioning in toddlers: The generation R study
Learning Objectives: 1. To understand how diurnal cortisol rhythm early in life is associated with cognitive functioning in in normally developing toddlers. 2. To understand that infants with a cortisol secretion pattern indicative of less…
Sleep disturbance and neuropsychological function in young children with ADHD
Learning Objectives: To understand the differences in parent ratings of sleep and behavior, teacher ratings of behavior, and performance on neuropsychological tasks between typically developing young children and young children with ADHD. To understand how…