Reduced corticomotor excitability and motor skills development in children born preterm

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 5827-5844

  Pitcher, Julia B ^a   Schneider, Luke A ^a   Burns, Nicholas R ^b   Drysdale, John L ^a   Higgins, Ryan D ^a   Ridding, Michael C ^a   Nettelbeck, Theodore J ^b   Haslam, Ross R ^c   Robinson, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMOTOR EXCITABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND PREFERENCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL DEXTERITY SKILL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; OBESITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADIPOSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84869033009     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.239269     Document Type: Article

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