Executive functioning and learning skills of adolescent children born at fewer than 26 weeks of gestation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Farooqi, A ^a   Adamsson, M ^a   Serenius, F ^b   Hagglof B ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIS KAPLAN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SCALE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERINATAL CARE; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN; WORKING MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 84962144689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151819     Document Type: Article

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