Visual performance and brain structures in the developing brain of pre-term infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 86, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 73-75

  Ramenghi, Luca Antonio ^a   Ricci, Daniela ^b   Mercuri, Eugenio ^b   Groppo, Michela ^a   De Carli, Agnese ^a   Ometto, Alessandra ^a   Fumagalli, Monica ^a   Bassi, Laura ^a   Pisoni, Silvia ^a   Cioni, Giovanni ^c   Mosca, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOMALACIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREMATURITY; RETINOPATHY; RISK; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79952108979     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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