Hand preference develops across childhood and adolescence in extremely preterm children: The EPICure Study
Aim – To determine how handedness changes with age, and its relation to brain injury and cognition in births before 26 weeks of gestation.
…Automated quantitative evaluation of brain MRI may be more accurate for discriminating preterm born adults
To investigate the structural brain abnormalities and their diagnostic accuracy through qualitative and quantitative analysis in term born and very preterm birth or with very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) adults.
…Aberrant gyrification contributes to the link between gestational age and adult IQ after premature birth
Gyrification is a hallmark of human brain development, starting in the second half of gestation in primary cortices, followed by unimodal and then transmodal associative cortices. Alterations in gyrification have been noted in premature-born newborns and children, suggesting abnormal cortical folding to be a permanent feature of prematurity……
…Far From Being Harmless, the Effects of Bullying Last Long Into Adulthood
Serious illness, struggling to hold down a regular job, and poor social relationships are just some of the adverse outcomes in adulthood faced by those exposed to bullying in childhood… More
…Dieter Wolke discusses the details of this research in a Q&A with APS
Q&A with Dieter Wolke on his recent study in Psychological Science, Impact of Bullying in Childhood on Adult Health, Wealth, Crime, and Social Outcomes.
…The Default Mode Network Mediates the Impact of Infant Regulatory Problems on Adult Avoidant Personality Traits
Adults who had experienced infant regulatory problems (RPs) have more avoidant personality traits that are mediated by the default mode network (DMN). Persistent and/or multiple infant RPs and the DMN may be targets to attenuate behavioral and emotional problems.
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Prospective Study of Physical Activity of Preterm Born Children from Age 5 to 14 Years.
Objective -To investigate whether level of prematurity (very, moderate, late preterm, vs full term) is associated with physical activity from childhood to adolescence and to identify factors in childhood that predict moderate-vigorous physical activity in early adolescence.
…IQ a Better Predictor of Adult Economic Success than Maths
· IQ in childhood is a better indicator of adult wealth than maths for very preterm and very low-weight babies, according to a new study in PLOS One.
· Many preterm children demonstrating cognitive impairments attend mainstream schools, it also provides an opportunity to develop strategies for ensuring that they receive best support for their learning progress.
· The better their learning progress the more likely they are to have economic success in adult life.
…General cognitive but not mathematic abilities predict very preterm and healthy term born adults’ wealth
Very preterm (<32 weeks gestation; VP) and/or very low birth weight (<1500g; VLBW) children often have cognitive and mathematic difficulties. It is unknown whether VP/VLBW children’s frequent mathematic problems significantly add to the burden of negative life-course consequences over and above effects of more general cognitive deficits. Our aim was to determine whether negative consequences of VP/VLBW versus healthy term birth on adult wealth are mediated by mathematic abilities in childhood, or rather explained by more general cognitive abilities.
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