Intelligence test scores from infancy to adulthood for a craniopagus twin pair neurosurgically separated at 4 months of age

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 209-217

  Lansdell, Herbert ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0033070443     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.1.209     Document Type: Article

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