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Dickstein, Daniel P.; Pescosolido, Matthew F.; Reidy, Brooke L.; Galvan, Thania; Kim, Kerri L.; Seymour, Karen E.; Laird, Angela R.; Di Martino, Adriana; Barrett, Rowland P. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013
Objective: There is a pressing need to elucidate the brain-behavior interactions underlying autism spectrum disorders (ASD) given the marked rise in ASD diagnosis over the past decade. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has begun to address this need, but few fMRI studies have evaluated age-related changes in ASD. Therefore, we conducted…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Meta Analysis, Neurological Impairments
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Grimes, Tiffany – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Many fingers are pointed at today's youth who are maligned for problems of bullying, school dropout, teen violence, suicide, and sexual encounters at ever younger ages. But these are symptoms of the culture of discord adults have created for youth. Too many youth lack positive adult and peer relationships, a loving and caring community, and a…
Descriptors: Youth, Parent Child Relationship, Caring, Peer Relationship
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O'Toole, Laura; Dennis, Tracy A. – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Anxiety is characterized by exaggerated attention to threat. Several studies suggest that this threat bias plays a causal role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Furthermore, although the threat bias can be reduced in anxious individuals and induced in non-anxious individual, the attentional mechanisms underlying these…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Anxiety, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Adams, Dawn; Oliver, C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: The latter stages of dementia in individuals with Down syndrome are well documented; however, earlier cognitive and behavioural changes have only recently been described. Holland et al. suggested such early signs of dementia in this population are behavioural and are similar to those seen in frontotemporal dementia, but there is, as…
Descriptors: Dementia, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Adjustment (to Environment)