To Go or Not to Go: Inhibitory Control in 'Hard to Manage' Children

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-140

  Brophy, Marcia ^a   Taylor, Eric ^a   Hughes, Claire ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB); Disruptive behaviour; Executive function (EF); Maudsley Attention and Response Suppression task battery (MARS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036383121     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.301     Document Type: Article

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