Impaired Delay and Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in School-Age Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-264

  Jacobson, Sandra W ^a,b   Stanton, Mark E ^c   Dodge, Neil C ^a   Pienaar, Mariska ^b   Fuller, Douglas S ^a   Molteno, Christopher D ^b   Meintjes, Ernesta M ^d   Hoyme, H Eugene ^e   Robinson, Luther K ^f   Khaole, Nathaniel ^b   Jacobson, Joseph L ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar Mediated Temporal Processing; Delay Eyeblink Conditioning; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Trace Eyeblink Conditioning

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HEAVILY EXPOSED NONSYNDROMAL; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHOOL CHILD;

BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; PREGNANCY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA; NEPTUNIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78851469468     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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