Learning difficulties: What the neurologist needs to know

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Rittey, C D ^a  

^a Ryegate Children's Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIRTH INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOWN SYNDROME; DYSLEXIA; DYSPRAXIA; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING DISORDER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PHAKOMATOSIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; AUTISM; EPILEPSY; HYPERKINESIA; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PREVALENCE; REMISSION; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LEARNING DISORDERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037371745     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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