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Open AccessFar Transfer Effects of Trainings on Executive Functions in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis
Executive Functions are a set of interrelated, top-down processes essential for adaptive goal-directed behaviour, frequently impaired across different neurodevelopmental disorders with variable degrees of seve...
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The Hippocampus, Neurotrophic Factors and Depression
Depression is a prevalent, highly debilitating mental disorder affecting up to 15% of the population at least once in their lifetime, with huge costs for society. Neurobiological mechanisms of depression are s...
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Emotional, Behavioral and Social Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy
About 10% of children older than 5 years in the community can present with a mental disorder (Meltzer et al. 2000). It is well established over the past thirty years that childhood chronic disorders, such as diab...
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Neuropsychological Evaluation
The study of cognitive and neuropsychological functions in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is relevant both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. From the theoretical standpoint, an analytical do...
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Valutazione cognitiva e neuropsicologica
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Temperament in Adolescents with Anxiety and Depressive Disorders and in Their Families
Aim of this study was to investigate whether specific temperamental features were associated with anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents, in their siblings and in their parents. Thirty adolescents wit...
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Assessment of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents with Mental Retardation
This report examines the concurrent validity of different informant and self-report assessment instruments of psychopathology, both general and specific for anxiety and/or depression, in referred mentally reta...
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Neuropsychological Outcome Following Prolonged Febrile Seizures Associated with Hippocampal Sclerosis and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Children
The evidence presented in this chapter demonstrates that hippocampal sclerosis is a substrate for TLE also in children.
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Psychopathological Aspects of Cryptorchidism in Children and Adolescents
In the male sexual and aggressive drives are mostly centered on the penis, whose real or fantasied features strongly affect the way children and adolescents build up their own personal and gender identity. In ...
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School Failure in Early Adolescence: The Psychopathological Risk
School difficulties and learning disorders in adolescence can become significant risk factors for psychopathology. This study investigates emotional and cognitive patterns in adolescents with school difficulti...