Relationship between vision and motor impairment in children with spastic cerebral palsy: New evidence from electrophysiology

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-150

  Da Costa, Marcelo Fernandes ^a   Salomão, Solange Rios ^b   Berezovsky, Adriana ^b   De Haro, Filomena Maria ^a   Ventura, Dora Fix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; GMFCS; Sweep VEP; Visual acuity loss; Young children

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 1042289351     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00223-7     Document Type: Article

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