Very preterm adolescents show impaired performance with increasing demands in executive function tasks

Early Human Development

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 37-43

  Wehrle, Flavia M ^a,b,c   Kaufmann, Liane ^d   Benz, Laura D ^e   Huber, Reto ^b,f   O'Gorman, Ruth L ^b,c   Latal, Beatrice ^b   Hagmann, Cornelia F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f University Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Child development; Executive function; Task demand; Very preterm birth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR SKILLS;

EID: 84955306152     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.10.021     Document Type: Article

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