Limitations in verbal fluency following heavy burdens of early childhood diarrhea in Brazilian shantytown children

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-244

  Patrick, Peter D ^b   Oriá, Reinaldo B ^a,c   Madhavan, Vandana ^a   Pinkerton, Relana C ^a   Lorntz, Breyette ^a   Lima, Aldo A M ^c   Guerrant, Richard L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Diarrhea; Executive function; Language; Semantic fluency; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAZIL; CHILD; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 12844270796     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/092970490911252     Document Type: Article

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