Executive function in autism spectrum disorder: history, theoretical models, empirical findings, and potential as an endophenotype

EA Demetriou, MM DeMayo, AJ Guastella - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
This review presents an outline of executive function (EF) and its application to autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). The development of the EF construct, theoretical models of EF …

Insomnia and cognitive performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis

S Wardle-Pinkston, DC Slavish, DJ Taylor - Sleep medicine reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Cognitive performance has been extensively investigated in relation to insomnia, yet review
of the literature reveals discrepant findings. The current study aimed to synthesize this …

Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

KG Noble, SM Houston, NH Brito, H Bartsch… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Socioeconomic disparities are associated with differences in cognitive development. The
extent to which this translates to disparities in brain structure is unclear. We investigated …

Childhood obesity, cortical structure, and executive function in healthy children

L Ronan, A Alexander-Bloch, PC Fletcher - Cerebral cortex, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The development of executive function is linked to maturation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in
childhood. Childhood obesity has been associated with changes in brain structure …

Neurocognitive development in socioeconomic context: Multiple mechanisms and implications for measuring socioeconomic status

A Ursache, KG Noble - Psychophysiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to functioning across a variety of
neurocognitive domains including language, memory, executive functioning, and social …

No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the ABCD study

AS Dick, NL Garcia, SM Pruden, WK Thompson… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication.
However, parents, educators and scientists have been interested in determining whether …

The cognition battery of the NIH toolbox for assessment of neurological and behavioral function: validation in an adult sample

S Weintraub, SS Dikmen, RK Heaton… - Journal of the …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This study introduces a special series on validity studies of the Cognition Battery (CB) from
the US National Institutes of Health Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and …

Fathers matter: The role of father parenting in preschoolers' executive function development

AS Meuwissen, SM Carlson - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Although previous work has shown that mothers' parenting influences the development of
child executive function (EF; important self-control skills developed during the preschool …

Altered brain developmental trajectories in adolescents after initiating drinking

A Pfefferbaum, D Kwon, T Brumback… - American journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors sought evidence for altered adolescent brain growth trajectory
associated with moderate and heavy alcohol use in a large national, multisite, prospective …

Socioeconomic status, white matter, and executive function in children

A Ursache, KG Noble… - Brain and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background A growing body of evidence links socioeconomic status (SES) to children's
brain structure. Few studies, however, have specifically investigated relations of SES to …