Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition, and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 12138-12143

  Neville, Helen J ^a   Stevens, Courtney ^b   Pakulak, Eric ^a   Bell, Theodore A ^a   Fanning, Jessica ^a   Klein, Scott ^a   Isbell, Elif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FAMILY BASED TRAINING PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; OREGON; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEACHING;

EID: 84880386129     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304437110     Document Type: Article

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