Cerebral effects of severe hypoglycemia in young people with type 1 diabetes

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-107

  Bjørgaas, Marit Rokne ^a,b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Diabetes mellitus; Electroencephalography; Hypoglycemia; MRI

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDLINE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEVERE HYPOGLYCEMIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84856404739     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2011.00803.x     Document Type: Review

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