Neuroimaging in the developmental disorders: the state of the science
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Latest neuroimaging techniques make it possible to adopt a fundamental cognitive approach to brain-behaviour relationships in the developmental disorders. Some inconsistent results have been obtained when using neuroimaging techniques in assessing conditions including autistic disorder, but there is evidence to support the future use of quantitative neuroimaging in the developmental disorders. However, the next generation of neuroimaging studies must be undertaken with latest methodology and must include the many neural systems residing in the whole brain.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1999
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On diagnosing rare disorders rarely: Appropriate use of screening instruments
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A study aimed to determine the use of questionnaires by child mental health professionals in identifying mental disorders, and to determine whether professionals could estimate the probability of disorder accurately, in screening positive subjects when the base rate was low. Many practitioners regularly used questionnaires but were often unaware that a screening questionnaire with specificity and sensitivity of 80%, will only have a positive predictive power of less than 50% when there is a low base rate of disorder.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1999
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The psychological development of children from Belarus exposed in the prenatal period to radiation from the Chernobyl atomic power plant
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A study focused on the clinical, psychological and neurophysiological assessment of development in children exposed to radiation during the prenatal period, following the Chernobyl accident. It is concluded that unfavourable social-psychological and social-cultural factors played a significant role in the genesis of borderline intellectual functioning, language and scholastic sills, and emotional disorders, in the exposed group.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1999
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