Daniel P J Carney

Goldsmiths, University of London

Executive Summary: • This report contains findings based on interviews with seventeen music creators living and working in Denmark, all of whom saw music-making as their main career, encompassing a range of genres, ages, career stages, levels of anxiety and depression, and levels of subjective wellbeing. • Interviewees reported a number of psycho...

Executive Summary: • There is a need for peer-reviewed scholarship on the effectiveness of musicians’ mental health interventions. • An initial review of global mental health interventions for musicians was undertaken as part of this report from which four models of practice were discernible: telephone helplines; preventative models; therapeutic...

This report contains findings based on the largest ever study of musicians’ and music creators’ mental health in Scandinavia, with 1865 survey respondents. Across our whole sample of musicians and more broadly defined music-makers in Denmark, subjective wellbeing is estimated to be worse than the wider Danish population based on our best approxima...

This study examined the development of phonological recoding in short-term memory (STM) span tasks among two clinical groups with contrasting STM and language profiles: those with Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS). Phonological recoding was assessed by comparing: (1) performance on phonologically similar and dissimilar items (phonologic...

Williams (WS) and Down (DS) syndromes have been associated with specifically compromised short-term memory (STM) subsystems. Individuals with WS have shown impairments in visuospatial STM, while individuals with DS have often shown problems with the recall of verbal material. However, studies have not usually compared the development of STM skills...

Williams (WS) and Down (DS) syndromes are characterised by roughly opposing ability profiles. Relative verbal strengths and visuospatial difficulties have been reported in those with WS, while expressive language difficulties have been observed in individuals with DS. Few investigations into the executive function (EF) skills of these groups have e...

Some Key ConceptsA Brief Introduction to Intellectual DisabilitiesIdentifying Children with Intellectual DisabilitiesForensic Issues Relevant to all Vulnerable WitnessesChildren with Non-Specific Intellectual DisabilitiesChildren with Down SyndromeChildren with Autism Spectrum DisorderChildren with Williams SyndromeConclusions References

The exceptionality of the skills of calendrical savants and the role of practice were investigated. Experiment 1 compared four autistic calendrical savants to Professor Conway, a distinguished mathematician with calendrical skills. Professor Conway answered questions over a greater range of years but some savants knew more calendrical regularities....