Fetal and infant spontaneous general movements as predictors of developmental disabilities

Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-101

  Zuk, Luba ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

General movements; Infants; Neurodevelopmental outcome; Predictive ability

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; BREATHING; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HIGH RISK INFANT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLACENTA DISORDER; POSTMATURITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; REM SLEEP; RETT SYNDROME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; FETUS MOVEMENT; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BRAIN DISEASES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FETAL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84875260455     PISSN: 19405510     EISSN: 19405529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ddrr.1104     Document Type: Article

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