Poor verbal working memory across intellectual level in boys with Duchenne dystrophy
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Poor verbal working memory across intellectual level in boys with Duchenne dystrophy.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether all boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have a similar verbal and memory profile of skills, or whether only a subset is affected, and to determine whether the weak areas in their profile are substantially different from a control group. METHODS Performance of patients with DMD on neuropsychological tests of verbal and memory skills was examined in two wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.11.2127