A study of serious adolescent offenders as they transition to adulthood and out of crime

Neurological Functioning/IQ

• Head Injury: (subject-baseline, subject-follow-up) Descriptive items that assess how many times, if any, the subject has had a head injury that resulted in the loss of consciousness.
• Stroop: (subject-baseline) The Stroop color and word test is a performance test measuring general impairment, mainly related to the frontal cortex.
• Trail-Making Test: (subject-baseline) The trail-making test is a performance test measuring general impairment, mainly related to the frontal cortex.
• Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI): (subject-baseline) The vocabulary and matrix subscales of the WASI are used in order to assess IQ. The test takes approximately 20 minutes to administer.

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