The role of early social play behaviors and language skills for shy children's later internalizing difficulties in school.

Research has demonstrated links from early childhood shyness to socioemotional problems later in life. This longitudinal study explored the role of early social play behaviors and language skills in the associations between childhood shyness and later internalizing and language difficulties in school. Participants were = 7,447 children (50.

Associations between poor gross and fine motor skills in pre-school and peer victimization concurrently and longitudinally with follow-up in school age - results from a population-based study.

Background: Children with poor motor skills are at increased risk of peer victimization. However, it is unclear whether poor gross and fine motor skills are differently linked to peer victimization among pre-school and schoolchildren.

Aims: To investigate associations between poor gross and fine motor skills measured in pre-school and the associations to peer victimization measured concurrently and in school age.

Associations Between Language Difficulties, Peer Victimization, and Bully Perpetration From 3 Through 8 Years of Age: Results From a Population-Based Study.

Background and Purpose Schoolchildren with language difficulties experience more peer victimization compared to their typically developing (TD) peers. Whether these children also bully their peers (bully perpetration) more than TD children is unclear. Furthermore, little is known about peer victimization and bully perpetration among preschool children with language difficulties and how it may be related to different paths of language difficulties.

Gender gaps in preschool age: A study of behavior, neurodevelopment and pre-academic skills.

Female educational advantage is evident from elementary school and throughout the education system. Understanding the gender differences that precede school entry might provide important insight as to why girls outperform boys later in their educational careers. The aim of this study was to explore gender differences in early literacy and numeracy skills, as well as a range of neurodevelopmental and behavioral domains between the age of five and six years.

Predicting Literacy Skills at 8 Years From Preschool Language Trajectories: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Purpose This article explored the predictive values of three main language delay (LD) trajectories (i.e., persistent, late onset, and transient) across 3-5 years on poor literacy at 8 years.

Peer-Victimization of Young Children With Developmental and Behavioral Difficulties-A Population-Based Study.

Objective: The aim is to investigate if young children with developmental and behavioral difficulties (DBDs) have greater risk of peer-victimization compared with typically developing (TD) children.

Method: The sample was drawn from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). MoBa has collected population-based data on children's health and development for 114,500 children.

Language Delay and Externalizing Problems in Preschool Age: A Prospective Cohort Study.

This study sought to examine the direction of causation between language delay and two externalizing problems; inattention and aggression. Autoregressive fixed effects models were fitted to data from 25,474 children (age 1.5 to 5 years; 50.

Language difficulties and internalizing problems: Bidirectional associations from 18 months to 8 years among boys and girls.

Studies have shown that early language difficulties are associated with later internalizing problems. Less is known about the nature of the association: the bidirectional relationship over time, the role of different types of language difficulties, and gender differences. The present study examined bidirectional longitudinal associations between parent-rated language difficulties and internalizing problems in a four-wave cross-lagged model from 18 months to 8 years.

Norway's high-quality center care reduces late talking in high- and low-risk groups.

Objectives: To examine whether attendance in Norwegian high-quality center care in the first 3 years of life buffers the negative effects of biomedical risk factors on children's late talking (LT) at 3 years of age.

Methods: Data on 75,128 children from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study were analyzed and include information on child care arrangements, LT, and a variety of covariates. A biomedical risk group (N = 6893) was constructed on the basis of information from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway on children's Apgar scores 5 minutes after birth, birth weight, and gestational age.

Potentially curative radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer in Norway: a population-based study of survival.

Purpose: The efficacy of curative irradiation in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer patients is considered limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term survival in a population-based approach.

Methods And Materials: Cases of non-small-cell lung cancer diagnosed from 1993 to 2001 were identified in the Cancer Registry of Norway.

A prospective phase II study: high-dose pemetrexed as second-line chemotherapy in small-cell lung cancer.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and tolerability of high-dose pemetrexed as second-line chemotherapy in small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Patients And Methods: Patients with verified SCLC who had received one prior chemotherapy regimen, aged 18-75 years, WHO Performance Status 0-2, no clinical signs of brain metastases and measurable disease were eligible. Patients received pemetrexed 900 mg/m(2) IV every 3 weeks.

Weekly docetaxel with concurrent radiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a phase I/II study with 5 years' follow-up.

This Phase I/II study investigated weekly docetaxel (Taxotere) with concurrent radiotherapy in 42 patients with untreated stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). All patients were treated with chest irradiation: 2Gy administered 5 days/week for 5 weeks, to a total of 50Gy. Docetaxel (1-h infusion) was administered on days 1, 8, 22, and 29< or =2 h before radiation fractions 1, 6, 16, and 21 (i.

Cisplatin and etoposide regimen is superior to cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, and vincristine regimen in small-cell lung cancer: results from a randomized phase III trial with 5 years' follow-up.

Purpose: To investigate whether chemotherapy with etoposide and cisplatin (EP) is superior to cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, and vincristine (CEV) in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Patients And Methods: A total of 436 eligible patients were randomized to chemotherapy with EP (n = 218) or CEV (n = 218). Patients were stratified according to extent of disease (limited disease [LD], n = 214; extensive disease [ED], n = 222).

The effect of patient's delay and doctor's delay in patients with malignant germ cell tumours.

In 103 patients with malignant germ cell tumours the initial clinical diagnosis was incorrect in 45 (44%). The correct diagnosis was established within 2 months in only 31% of the patients, and delayed by more than 6 months in 27%. Stage, distribution and survival were correlated with the histology, but not with the duration of symptoms or the patient's/doctor's delay.