Science news articles about 'iq scores'

CHICAGO (AP) -- Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain....

... Academy of Neurology. Children who developed the disease at a younger age were more likely to have low IQ scores than children who were older when the disease started. “It’s possible that MS can ...

... to nothing about the long-term learning potential of their children. That's because these tests are scored according to the mean performance of children without disabilities. The result is that the ...

... study to report an association between PAH exposure and IQ, and it should serve as a warning bell to us ... high exposure. "The decrease in full-scale IQ score among the more exposed children is similar ...

Babies born to women who were pregnant during the 1998 ice storm in Eastern Canada and faced unusual stresses show some developmental delays such as lower IQ scores, researchers have found.

... literature, mental retardation was the norm. This study, however, found that only 29.1 percent had IQ scores within the mental retardation range. Learning disabilities were the more common cognitive ...

... they think about this information," Folley said. The researchers also found that, overall, the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians, supporting recent studies that intensive musical ...

... arise. Published in Oxford Journal's Schizophrenia Bulletin, the study builds on Dr. Weiser's previous research on parental age, autism and IQ scores.

... results offer new insight into how the various factors that comprise an "intelligence quotient" (IQ) score depend on particular regions of the brain. Neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of ...