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- Title
Is Executive Function Intact After Pediatric Intracranial Hemorrhage? A Sample of Mexican Children With Hemophilia.
- Authors
Morales, Guadalupe; Matute, Esmeralda; Murray, Joan; Hardy, David J.; O’Callaghan, Erin T.; Tlacuilo-Parra, Alberto
- Abstract
The goal of this study was to examine executive functioning outcomes in children with hemophilia who have suffered intracranial hemorrhage. We assessed 10 boys with hemophilia with intracranial hemorrhage; 6 boys with hemophilia without intracranial hemorrhage; and 10 healthy boys as controls. Intellectual functioning was assessed with subscales from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Mexican Revision. Concept formation and reasoning, cognitive flexibility, and planning and organization domains from a neuropsychological assessment battery for Spanish-speaking children were employed for our analysis. Results indicated that children with intracranial hemorrhage demonstrated significant impairment on some measures of executive function compared with the control groups. All differences reflected poorer performance by the intracranial hemorrhage group. These results may reflect the impact of disruption to immature brain circuits and the deficiency of functional specificity within the immature brain. This is the only known study examining neuropsychological functioning in Mexican youth with hemophilia.
- Subjects
MEXICO; HEMOPHILIA complications; CEREBRAL hemorrhage; COGNITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; RESEARCH funding; T-test (Statistics); DISEASE complications
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2013, Vol 52, Issue 10, p950
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0009922813495311