Agenesis of the corpus callosum and the establishment of handedness

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 472-481

  Sacco, Silvia ^a   Moutard, Marie Laure ^a   Fagard, Jacqueline ^b  

^a ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Corpus callosum; Handedness; Infants; Isolated agenesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; ULTRASOUND;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33748579889     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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