Childhood socioeconomic status predicts cognitive outcomes across adulthood following traumatic brain injury.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and the level and rate of change in intelligence scores throughout adulthood following traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS: In this longitudinal study we tested 186 patients with TBI and 54 healthy controls from the Vietnam Head Injury Study. Childhood SES was determined for each participant based on parental educational attainment and occupational prestige. General intelligence was initially assessed pre…

Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism.

Machiavellian tendencies increase following damage to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.