Executive function in children born preterm: Risk factors and implications for outcome

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 520-529

  Taylor, H Gerry ^a   Clark, Caron A C ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Executive function; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEARING DISORDER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DYSPLASIA; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL STATUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISORDER; WORKING MEMORY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; LEARNING; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85006312481     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2016.09.004     Document Type: Review

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