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One of the many pleasures of being a professor was feeling the need to stay on top of the research in psychology. When I first learned about the half-life of knowledge, the literature typically said it was 3-5 years in technical fields. As a retired professor, I am still a member of the American Psychological Association and subscribe to a service that delivers abstracts and open-source articles from a large number of journals. As an alumna of Harvard, I also get information from them and I have the time to peruse multiple sources. This is a pleasure most professionals don’t have, especially if they value
work-life balance.
I still love research and, when I was asked to write the blog, I enthusiastically agreed. I try to select articles based on their relevance to practitioners, but also to capture both emerging themes and important corrections. I am hopeful that, moving forward, we will have ways to enable readers to easily engage in conversations with me and each other.
-Dr. Karen Nelson
Phonological working memory and ADHD
This is a fascinating study of children with ADHD. Roberts, Alderson & Bullard (2023) published “Phonological Working Memory in Children with and Without ADHD: A systematic evaluation of recall errors” in Neuropsychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:
Agreement about cognitive disengagement
Mayes, Calhoun & Waschbusch (2023) published “Agreement Between Mother, Father, and Teacher Ratings of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (Sluggish Cognitive Tempo) in Children with Autism and Children with ADHD” in Psychological Assessment.
New studies of ADHD
Here, I want to present four recent studies related to ADHD. The first, presented by Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About (2022) addresses “ADHD Medication Effects.” Here’s the abstract:
Consequences of COVID
Increasingly, COVID research has focused on specific challenges. Here, I present information about four studies of its effects. First, we look at effects of COVID during the early years of the pandemic. First, Delagneau, Twilhaar, Testa, van Veen & Anderson (2022) published “Association Between Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and/or Stress and Offspring's Cognitive Functioning: A meta-analysis” in Child Development. Here are edited parts of the article:
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Di Lonardo Burr et al. (2022) published “Paths to Postsecondary Education Enrollment Among Adolescents With and Without Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories” in Child Development. Here’s the abstract: