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Academic and cognitive abilities in children of parents with bipolar disorder: a test of the nonverbal learning disability model.
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology - 1 May 2002
McDonough-Ryan Patricia, DelBello Melissa, Shear Paula K, Ris Douglas M, Soutullo Ceasar, Strakowski Stephen M
Abstract excerpt
It has been hypothesized that children who are at genetic risk to develop bipolar disorder demonstrate deficiencies consistent with the syndrome of nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD); however, this hypothesis has never been tested directly. In the present study, a group of at-risk children (AR group; N = 28) was compared to a demographically matched control group of children of healthy parents (HC group; N =...
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