Reading performance correlates with white-matter properties in preterm and term children

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Andrews, James S ^a   Ben Shachar, Michal ^b,c   Yeatman, Jason D ^b   Flom, Lynda L ^d   LUNA, BEATRIZ ^e   Feldman, Heidi M ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77953931498     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03456.x     Document Type: Article

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