Neuropsychological Impairment in School-Aged Children Born to Mothers With Gestational Diabetes.

The aim of this study was to determine whether school-aged children born to mothers with gestational diabetes show delays in their neuropsychological development. Several key neuropsychological characteristics of 32 children aged 7 to 9 years born to mothers with gestational diabetes were examined by comparing their performance on cognitive tasks to that of 28 children aged 8 to 10 years whose mothers had glucose levels within normal limits during pregnancy. The gestational diabetes group showed low performance on graphic, spatial, and bimanual skills and a higher presence of soft neurologic signs.

Effect of chronic iron deficiency on neuropsychological domains in infants.

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of chronic iron deficiency on neuropsychological traits in infants. We established the nutritional iron status and assessed the neuropsychological characteristics of 58 Mexican 14- to 18-month-old infants. The Bayley Scales of Infant Development, preschool language scales and an environmental sound perception task designed expressly for the study, were used.

Event-related brain potentials in reading disabled children during an inverse serial digit detection task.

It has been reported that limitations in different components of working memory could underlie reading disabilities. In addition, reading-disabled (RD) children seem to perform worse when digit name processing is required. With the purpose to explore further these assumptions one inverse serial digit detection task was evaluated using event-related brain potentials in fifteen 8-year-old RD children and a control group (CG).

Syntactic processing in Turner's syndrome.

A significant controversy concerning language development in Turner's syndrome has been found. Whereas some authors have observed that girls with Turner's syndrome maintain their verbal abilities intact, others have reported significant differences in Wechsler Verbal IQ when compared with normal controls. However, little has been studied about the linguistic characteristics of these patients when using tests to evaluate different linguistic levels.