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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging and intellectual outcomes in spina bifida: laboratory investigation.

Jul 2008 OBJECT: Patients with spina bifida (SB) have variable intellectual outcomes. The authors used diffusion tensor (DT) imaging to quantify whole-brain volumes of gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF),... Read more...

The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence.

12 Jun 2008 Innate cognitive capacities are orchestrated by cultural practices to produce high-level cognitive processes. In human activities, examples of this phenomenon range from everyday inferences about space and time to the... Read more...

IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study.

Jun 2008 OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of potential mediating factors in explaining the IQ-mortality relation. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 4316 male former Vietnam-era US army personnel with IQ test results at... Read more...

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• Gene mutations and cognitive delay. Aug 2008
• Behavior Genetics Association. Do good sperm predict a good brain? 25 Jul 2008
• Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging and intellectual outcomes in spina bifida: laboratory investigation. Jul 2008
• The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence. 12 Jun 2008
• Introduction. The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience. 12 Jun 2008
• Consanguinity and national IQ scores. Jun 2008
• IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. Jun 2008
• Genome-wide quantitative trait locus association scan of general cognitive ability using pooled DNA and 500K single nucleotide polymorphism microarrays. Jun 2008
• Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10. Jun 2008
• The necessity, barriers and ways forward to meet user-based needs for emotionally intelligent nurses. Jun 2008
• Learning, working memory, and intelligence revisited. Jun 2008
• Brain lesions and IQ: recovery versus decline depends on age of onset. Jun 2008
• The effect of duration of epilepsy on IQ in children with CLRE; a comparison to SLRE and IGE. Jun 2008
• Maternal fish intake during pregnancy, blood mercury levels, and child cognition at age 3 years in a US cohort. 15 May 2008
• Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. 13 May 2008
• Increasing fluid intelligence is possible after all. 13 May 2008
• Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. 6 May 2008
• Developing intelligent feelings. 3 May 2008
• White matter tract integrity and intelligence in patients with mental retardation and healthy adults. May 2008
• Associative learning of pictures and words by low-functioning children with autism. May 2008

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Technical information about 'Intelligence'

Definition: The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.

Descriptor UI: D007360

Alternative terms: Intelligence;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; genetics;

Tree Number: F01.752.543;

Technical Notes: /genet permitted