Deficits in Eye Movement Control in Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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Deficits in eye movement control in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
BACKGROUND Prenatal exposure to alcohol can result in a spectrum of adverse developmental outcomes in offspring, collectively termed fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Deficits in executive function--the psychological processes involved in controlling voluntary goal-oriented behavior--are prevalent in FASD. Oculomotor tasks have been designed as highly sensitive tools to evaluate componen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0145-6008,1530-0277
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00335.x