At age 4, Teddy Halpin could name all the United States presidents in order. "He could give you every football and baseball players’ stat, even the most obscure ones, you know, he knew it all," mother ...

USC-led study of patients with epilepsy shows how making new neurons benefits cognition in adults. Why do adults make new brain cells? A new study published in Cell Stem Cell provides the first ...

Recently, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife Gwen shared with People magazine that their son has a non-verbal learning disability (NVLD). What does that mean? From the name, you’d think ...

Over the past four decades, educators, clinicians, and researchers have become increasingly aware that there are children who have no problem with purely verbal activities, and may even be verbally ...

Verbal learning is what allows people to understand language, remember instructions, and take part in everyday conversations. The loss of this skill can be devastating, especially for those already ...

In the Penn study, visual and verbal cognitive styles were measured in 18 subjects by a self-report exam called the Verbalizer–Visualizer Questionnaire. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, a ...

The Wada test (WT), introduced in 1949 by Juhn Atsushi Wada as a procedure to determine hemispheric language lateralization (HLL) 1, was further developed in 1962 to additionally assess hemispheric ...

A NON-verbal learning disorder (NLD) can impact a child’s ability to understand concepts and impact other areas of their development. But what are some of the other signs and symptoms parents should ...

After Gov. Tim Walz accepted his vice-presidential nomination, his 17-year-old son Gus's appearance at the Democratic National Convention has sparked more discussions about non-verbal learning ...