Intelligence and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Full-Scale, Verbal, and Performance intelligence quotients
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Intelligence and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: full-scale, verbal, and performance intelligence quotients.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a disease which has as its hallmarks progressive muscle weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscle. Also observed among those with DMD is a higher rate of mental retardation* than in the normally developing population. While estimates for the prevalence of mental retardation in the normally developing population are approximately 9%,1 estimates of mental r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0012-1622,1469-8749
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2001.tb00750.x