Like father, like son: Periventricular nodular heterotopia and nonverbal learning disorder

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 950-953

  McCann, Marcia V ^a   Pongonis, Stephen J ^a   Golomb, Meredith R ^a   Edwards Brown, Mary ^a   Christensen, Celanie K ^a   Sokol, Deborah K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonverbal learning disability; Periventricular nodular heterotopia; Visual spatial deficits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPT FORMATION; COORDINATION DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSMETRIA; FATHER; HEARING LOSS; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIVENTRICULAR NODULAR HETEROTOPIA; PHENOTYPE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERIVENTRICULAR NODULAR HETEROTOPIA; PROBLEM SOLVING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 48449095552     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073808315415     Document Type: Article

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