Language after hemispherectomy in childhood: Contributions from memory and intelligence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3101-3107

  Liégeois, Frédérique ^a   Cross, J Helen ^a,b   Polkey, Charles ^c   Harkness, William ^a,b   Vargha Khadem, Faraneh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Child development; Hemispheric differences; Language processing; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 50849093524     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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