Number Processing in Adolescents With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and ADHD: Differences in the Neurobehavioral Phenotype

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-442

  Jacobson, Joseph L ^a   Dodge, Neil C ^a   Burden, Matthew J ^a   Klorman, Rafael ^b   Jacobson, Sandra W ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Magnitude Comparison; Number Processing; Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CALCULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79951890851     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01360.x     Document Type: Article

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