Some states require abortion providers to provide women with written or
verbal information suggesting that abortion increases a woman's risk of breast cancer or mental illness, despite the lack of valid scientific evidence of increased risk.
Not exact matches
The research contradicts the findings of earlier studies, including one by researchers at Florida Tech in 2003, which
suggested that heading in soccer may result in the short term in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in
verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced
information processing speed.
Two 2003 studies
suggest that heading in soccer may result in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in
verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced
information processing speed, but a critical review of the literature in 2010 by an expert panel of the American Academy of Pediatrics found no support for such a finding, and a 2012 study in the journal Neurosurgery concluded that it was «unlikely» that the subtle cognitive differences detected were sufficient to affect the daily lives of players.
Macleod, Gross, and Hayne (2013)
suggest that children's drawings may provide clinicians with far better
information than
verbal communication.
While intelligence as psychological construct is assumed to be stable over time, it has been
suggested that WISC - III subtests may be less stable than global IQ (for more
information about long - term stability of the WISC - III see Canivez and Watkins 2001; for a general discussion see Moffitt et al. (1993) and repeated
verbal IQ testing during childhood has revealed considerable change within individuals, reflecting different rates of developmental maturation, and, specifically, language development (Breslau et al. 2001).