Specific language impairment with or without hyperactivity: Neuropsychological evidence for frontostriatal dysfunction

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 368-375

  Williams, D ^a   Stott, C M ^a,b   Goodyer, I M ^a   Sahakian, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Section of Developmental Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034083293     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162200000682     Document Type: Article

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