Prenatal cocaine exposure and child development: What do we know and what do we do?

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-143

  Lester, Barry M ^a   LaGasse, Linda L ^a   Bigsby, Rosemarie ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development outcome; Cocaine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 0031616066     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1064041     Document Type: Article

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