Assessment of general movements: Towards a better understanding of a sensitive method to evaluate brain function in young infants

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 88-98

  Hadders Algra, Mijna ^a,b   Klip Van Den Nieuwendijk, Anneke W J ^a   Martijn, Albert ^b   Van Eykern, Leo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031053628     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1997.tb07390.x     Document Type: Article

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