Total brain white matter is a major determinant of IQ in adolescents born preterm

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 702-711

  Northam, Gemma B ^a,b   Liégeois, Frédérique ^a,b   Chong, Wui K ^b   S Wyatt, John ^c   Baldeweg, Torsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH; BRAIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMORRHAGIC PARENCHYMAL INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERM BIRTH; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTHERS; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 79955443986     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.22263     Document Type: Article

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