Agreement between the neonatal neurological examination and a standardized assessment of neurobehavioural performance in a group of high-risk newborns

Developmental Neurorehabilitation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-14

  Limperopoulos, C ^a   Majnemer, A ^a   Rosenblatt, B ^a   Shevell, M I ^a   Rohlicek, C ^a   Tchervenkov, C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

neurobehavioural assessment newborn; neurologic examination; validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOCLONUS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP STAGE; SUCKING; TREMOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX; REFLEX, STRETCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP STAGES; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TREMOR;

EID: 0030622022     PISSN: 17518423     EISSN: 17518431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17518429709060936     Document Type: Article

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