Diffusion tensor imaging of frontal white matter and executive functioning in cocaine-exposed children

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2014-2024

  Warner, Tamara Duckworth ^a,e   Behnke, Marylou ^a   Eyler, Fonda Davis ^a   Padgett, Kyle ^b   Leonard, Christiana ^a   Hou, Wei ^a   Garvan, Cynthia Wilson ^a   Schmalfuss, Ilona M ^a,c   Blackband, Stephen J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine infants; Cognitive function; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychology; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WHITE MATTER; CHILD; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHILD; COCAINE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750933538     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0003     Document Type: Article

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