Cognitive trajectories in 4 patients with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis: Serial evaluation over a decade

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1577-1586

  Marin, Samantha E ^a   Banwell, Brenda B ^b   Till, Christine ^c  

^a MCMASTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive trajectories; longitudinal study; multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

BETA1A INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GADOLINIUM; GLATIRAMER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MODAFINIL; VALPROIC ACID;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATION; DIPLOPIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HAND TREMOR; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; OPTIC NEURITIS; PALLOR; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SEIZURE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SWELLING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VERTIGO; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOMITING; WHITE MATTER LESION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HAND STRENGTH; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84887873269     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073812465010     Document Type: Article

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