Early adolescent executive functioning, intrauterine exposures and own drug use

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-392

  Rose Jacobs, Ruth ^a   Soenksen, Shayna ^b   Appugliese, Danielle P ^c   Cabral, Howard J ^c   Richardson, Mark A ^a,d   Beeghly, Marjorie ^e,f   Heeren, Timothy C ^c   Frank, Deborah A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adolescent drug use; Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (D KEFS); Executive functions; Intrauterine substance exposure; Neurocognition; Prenatal substance exposure

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIS KAPLAN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SYSTEM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; TERM BIRTH; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 79957800763     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: 18729738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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