Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

The JIDR Student Research Excellence Award

John R. Lutzker, President, Division 33 of the American Psychological Association, presenting the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Student Research Excellence Award for Outstanding Research to Tessa L Hesse for ‘Siblings of Children with Autism: predictors of Sibling Adjustment’ at the APA Annual Convention 2011

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

Professor Tony Holland is the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disability for the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group. Professor Holland is also a Fellow and Vice-President of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID) and is President of Cambridge MENCAP.

Editor's Choice

Professor Holland has recommended the following articles, providing a brief overview of each. These are available to download for free:

Pharmacotherapy for aggressive behaviours in persons with intellectual disabilities: treatment or mistreatment?
J A Tsiouris

This paper provides an authoritative examination of the use of antipsychotic medication in the treatment of aggressive behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities. The paper argues that such use is frequently inappropriate and makes the case for its use only when there is a co-morbid mental illness that is known to respond to such medication.

Evaluation of executive functioning in people with intellectual disabilities
P Willner, R Bailey, R Parry et al

As the importance of those cognitive abilities referred to as ‘executive functions’ is increasingly recognized so it becomes necessary to have assessments that can reliably measure such abilities in people with pre-existing intellectual disabilities. This paper examines two such groups of assessments and their strengths and weaknesses.