Metabolic abnormalities in developmental dyslexia detected by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Volumn 351, Issue 9119, 1998, Pages 1849-1852

  Rae, Caroline ^a   Lee, Martin A ^b   Dixon, Ruth M ^a   Blamire, Andrew M ^a   Thompson, Campbell H ^a   Styles, Peter ^a   Talcott, Joel ^c   Richardson, Alexandra J ^c   Stein, John F ^c  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 0032551159     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)99001-2     Document Type: Article

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