Correlative study of the cognitive impairment, regional cerebral blood flow, and electroencephalogram abnormalities in children with Down's syndrome

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-336

  Aydin, Mustafa ^a   Kabakus, Nimet ^a   Balci, Tansel Ansal ^a   Ayar, Ahmet ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion; Cognitive deficit; Down syndrome; SPECT; Tc 99m HMPAO

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFUSION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846952861     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450600582249     Document Type: Article

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