Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for PKU (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)
Contributors: Adele Diamond (Editor); Meredith Prevor (Editor); Glenda Callender (Editor); Donald P. Druin (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780226144771
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Endocrinology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Paediatric medicine; Child Psychology; Neuropsychology; Science; Psychology; General; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent
First sentence: We report here the results of a 4-year longitudinal study designed to investigate cognitive neuropsychological functioning in children who we hypothesized would have a selective loss of dopamine in prefrontal cortex without other abnormalities in the brain.