Exam 24: Extension: A - Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Children who enter school at a younger age tend to _____ their classmates.

It is the result of early brain trauma. It is probably most useful as an "administrative term." It is not curable. It is:

In Tallal's study, normal individuals required interstimulus intervals of _____ milliseconds in order to tell if one or two tones had been presented.

Which is NOT considered to be a primary cause of reading disabilities?

Because reading is central to success in school _____ is central to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders.

CSF is made by the:

A less severe form of autism is termed:

By adolescence, _____ percent to _____ percent of hyperactive children have begun to have problems with the law.

The Geschwind-Galaburda hypothesis suggests that _____ is(are) responsible for an asymmetric development of the cerebral hemispheres in males.

Many more boys than girls are diagnosed as having:

The MOST likely cause(s) of cerebral palsy is(are):

Reading by sounding out the phonemes is termed _____ reading.

The ACID profile is characteristic of which learning disorder?

The male - to - female ratio in autism is about:

The dictionary - like store of words in the brain is referred to as:

Impairments seen in children with autism in learning various motor skills and conditioned responses may be related MOST closely to abnormalities in the _____ of these individuals.

Although controversial, the stimulant Ritalin is widely used in the treatment of:

The Geschwind-Galaburda hypothesis proposes to account for all EXCEPT which of the following?

Females with fragile - X syndrome have _____ severe symptoms than males because they have _____ X chromosome(s).

_____ percent of the offspring of alcoholic mothers have pronounced fetal alcohol syndrome.