Moderating Effects of Age and Gender on the Relationship Between Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Parental Accommodation.

Parental accommodation is a well-established anxiogenic parenting practice that is ubiquitous among parents of youth with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). Accommodation is associated with heightened symptom severity (i.e.

Novel linguistic evaluation of prefrontal synthesis (LEPS) test measures prefrontal synthesis acquisition in neurotypical children and predicts high-functioning versus low-functioning class assignment in individuals with autism.

In order to grasp the difference between "the cat on the mat" and "the mat on the cat," understanding the words and the grammar is not enough. Rather it is essential to visualize the cat and the mat together to appreciate their relations. This type of imagination, which involves juxtaposition of mental objects is conducted by the prefrontal cortex and is therefore called Prefrontal Synthesis (PFS).