The Importance of Measurement Precision and Behavioral Homologies in Evaluating the Behavioral Consequences of Fetal-Ethanol Exposure: Commentary on Williams and Colleagues ("Sensory-Motor Deficits in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Assessed Using a Robotic Virtual Reality Platform")

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-43

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Sensory Motor Processes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCURACY; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETON; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALIA;

FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; SENSORY-MOTOR PROCESSES;

FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EID: 84892793379     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12328     Document Type: Note

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