Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

In this video, Professor Jan Blacher, from the University of California at Riverside and Associate Editor of the ‘Journal of Intellectual Disability Research’, talks about ‘publishing for impact’.

The video was filmed at the Wiley session on ‘How to get published’, held at the IASSID World Congress, Halifax, NS, Canada, July 2012.

Executive functions in individuals with Williams syndrome
D. Menghini, F. Addona, F. Costanzo, S. Vicari

Loss of response to melatonin treatment is associated with slow melatonin metabolism
W. Braam, I. van Geijlswijk, Henry Keijzer, Marcel G. Smits, Robert Didden, Leopold M. G. Curfs

Neuropsychological components of intellectual disability: the contributions of immediate, working, and associative memory
Jamie O. Edgin, Bruce F. Pennington, Carolyn B. Mervis

Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with and without intellectual disability
E. Emerson

Depression in mothers and fathers of children with intellectual disability
M. B. Olsson, C. P. Hwang

Risk markers associated with challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities: a meta-analytic study
K. McClintock, S. Hall, C. Oliver

Wiley Blackwell and Mencap are pleased to announce that Professor Chris Oliver has been appointed as the new Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research (JIDR). Professor Oliver is the Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Read the Editor's Choice - current article highlights selected by Professor Chris Oliver:-

Costs and outcomes over 36 years of patients with phenylketonuria who do and do not remain on a phenylalanine-restricted diet
J. F. Guest, J. J. Bai, R. R. Taylor, E. Sladkevicius, P. J. Lee, R. H. Lachmann

JIDR APA Student Research Excellence Award

Ashley Woodman from Boston College, recipient of the 2012 JIDR sponsored APA Student Research Excellence Award, seen here accepting her award at the APA Convention in August. Ashley won the award for her paper, co-authored by Penny Hauser-Cram, on “Group Trajectories of Stress Across 23 Years of Parenting a Child With a Developmental Disability”. The award was presented to Ashley by Alice Carter, University of Massachusetts Boston and President-Elect of Division 33 of the APA.

Photo from left to right: John R. Lutzker, President, Division 33 of the American Psychological Association, Ashley Woodman, Frances Martinez Pedraza, Co-chair of the 2012 APA Division 33 Program and Alice Carter, President-Elect, Division 33 of the APA.