Preterm birth: Transition to adulthood

Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 323-335

  Allen, Marilee C ^a   Cristofalo, Elizabeth ^a   Kim, Christina ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Birthweight; Brain injury; Developmental outcome; Gestational age; Prematurity; Preterm birth; White matter injury; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ILLICIT DRUG; INDOMETACIN;

ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL PALSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURVIVOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84860885641     PISSN: 19405510     EISSN: 19405529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ddrr.128     Document Type: Article

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