An adoption study of human obesity

AJ Stunkard, TIA Sørensen, C Hanis… - … England Journal of …, 1986 - Mass Medical Soc
We examined the contributions of genetic factors and the family environment to human
fatness in a sample of 540 adult Danish adoptees who were selected from a population of …

Genetic and environmental influences on premature death in adult adoptees

TIA Sørensen, GG Nielsen, PK Andersen… - … England Journal of …, 1988 - Mass Medical Soc
To assess genetic and environmental influences on adult mortality, we followed 960 families
that included children born during the period 1924 through 1926 who were placed early in …

The Danish draft board's intelligence test, Børge Priens Prøve: psychometric properties and research applications through 50 years

TW Teasdale - Scandinavian journal of psychology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
For over 50 years the Danish draft board has used the same test, Børge Priens Prøve (BPP)
for cognitive abilities, involving four paper‐and‐pencil subtests, to assess suitability for …

Suicide after traumatic brain injury: a population study

TW Teasdale, AW Engberg - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & …, 2001 - jnnp.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES To determine the rates of suicide among patients who have had a traumatic
brain injury. METHODS From a Danish population register of admissions to hospital …

A long-term rise and recent decline in intelligence test performance: The Flynn Effect in reverse

TW Teasdale, DR Owen - Personality and Individual Differences, 2005 - Elsevier
In the 1980s reviewed evidence indicated that, through the preceding decades of the last
century, population performance on intelligence tests had been rising substantially, typically …

Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect

TW Teasdale, DR Owen - Intelligence, 2008 - Elsevier
Scores on cognitive tests have been very widely reported to have increased through the
decades of the last century, a generational phenomenon termed the 'Flynn Effect'since it was …

Subjective experience in brain injured patients and their close relatives: A European Brain Injury Questionnaire study

TW Teasdale, AL Christensen, K Willmes, G Deloche… - Brain Injury, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Results are reported from an international project the aim of which has been to develop and
validate a wide ranging questionnaire suitable for administration to brain injured patients …

Psychosocial outcome following traumatic brain injury in adults: a long-term population-based follow-up

AW Engberg, TW Teasdale - Brain injury, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Primary objective: On a national basis to conduct a 5, 10 and 15 year follow-up study of
representative samples of survivors after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to identify factors of …

[HTML][HTML] Psychometric properties of the Danish Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire: the SDQ assessed for more than 70,000 raters in four different cohorts

J Niclasen, TW Teasdale, AMN Andersen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioural five
factor instrument developed to assess emotional and behavioural problems in children and …

The accuracy of reports of weight: children's recall of their parents' weights 15 years earlier.

TI Sørensen, AJ Stunkard, TW Teasdale… - International journal of …, 1983 - europepmc.org
This report describes the accuracy with which adults can recall the weights of their parents
as they were 15 yr before. In 1962-65, measurements of height, weight and skinfold …