Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for Pku (Monographs on the Society for Research in Child Development)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780631224570
Subjects: Hereditary diseases & disorders; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Family & Relationships; Science; Family/Marriage; General; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; COGNITION DISORDERS IN CHILDREN; Medical / Psychiatry / 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.