The influence of head growth in fetal life, infancy, and childhood on intelligence at the ages of 4 and 8 years

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1486-1492

  Gale, Catharine R ^a   O'Callaghan, Finbar J ^b   Bredow, Maria ^b   Martyn, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain development; Growth; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 33750111464     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2629     Document Type: Article

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