Strategies for pharmacologic treatment of high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome
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Right Hand Preference in Implicit Motor Learning in Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Objectives: Cerebral hemispheres functioning have been found to be abnormal in children with ASD. The role of lateralization in implicit and explicit motor learning has received little attention in ASD researches. The main goal of this study is investigating the differences between two hands implicit and explicit motor learning in children with ASD and typical matched group. Methods: In the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1056-4993
DOI: 10.1016/s1056-4993(02)00049-4