Congenital perisylvian dysfunction - is it a spectrum?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-39

  Clark, Maria ^a,b   Chong, Wui K ^a,b   Cox, Tim ^a,b   Neville, Brian G R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CONGENITAL BILATERAL PERISYLVIAN POLYMICROGYRIA; CONGENITAL UNILATERAL PERISYLVIAN POLYMICROGYRIA; CONTRACTURE; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SUPRABULBAR PARESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONSANGUINITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 73249151787     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03348.x     Document Type: Article

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