Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities Page 1 Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse …

Abstract Duncan et al.(2007) presented a new methodology for identifying kindergarten
readiness factors and quantifying their importance by determining which of children's …

Memory is essential to adaptive behavior because it allows past experience to guide
choices. Emerging findings indicate that the neurotransmitter dopamine, which signals …

Research Findings: The present study investigated whether active play during recess was
associated with self-regulation and academic achievement in a prekindergarten sample. A …

Memory systems research has typically described the different types of long-term memory in
the brain as either declarative versus non-declarative or implicit versus explicit. These …

In this paper we highlight why there is a need to examine subcortical learning systems in
children with language impairment and dyslexia, rather than focusing solely on cortical …

The social motivation hypothesis of autism posits that infants with autism do not experience
social stimuli as rewarding, thereby leading to a cascade of potentially negative …

Developmental disorders of language include developmental language disorder, dyslexia,
and motor-speech disorders such as articulation disorder and stuttering. These disorders …

Decisions are often guided by generalizing from past experiences. Fundamental questions
remain regarding the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which generalization takes place …

While several models of memory consolidation have previously associated hippocampal
activity with declarative memory, there is now increasing evidence that the hippocampus …