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Sustained attention in children with two etiologies of early hydrocephalus.
Trial report in Neuropsychology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development of inattention and executive dysfunction in youth with spina bifida: condition severity variables as predictors.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2025Article
- Research priorities for improving cognitive and neuropsychological outcomes in hydrocephalus.Fluids and barriers of the CNS · 2024Review
- Memory in Spina Bifida, from Childhood to Adulthood: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- A scoping review of cognition in spina bifida and its consequences for activity and participation throughout life.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Article
- Cognitive control and associated neural correlates in adults with spina bifida myelomeningocele.Neuropsychology · 2017Article
- Gray matter integrity within regions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortical-subcortical network predicts executive function and fine motor dexterity in spina bifida.Neuropsychology · 2016Article
- Relations between volumetric measures of brain structure and attentional function in spina bifida: utilization of robust statistical approaches.Neuropsychology · 2015Article
- Attention in spina bifida myelomeningocele: Relations with brain volume and integrity.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2015Article
- Functional plasticity in childhood brain disorders: when, what, how, and whom to assess.Neuropsychology review · 2014Review
- Covert orienting in three etiologies of congenital hydrocephalus: the effect of midbrain and posterior fossa dysmorphology.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2014Article
- Folate metabolism gene 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is associated with ADHD in myelomeningocele patients.PloS one · 2012Article
- Executive functions in adolescents with spina bifida: relations with autonomy development and parental intrusiveness.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2012Article
- Early information processing among infants with and without spina bifida.Infant behavior & development · 2010Article
- The cognitive phenotype of spina bifida meningomyelocele.Developmental disabilities research reviews · 2010Review
- Puppets, robots, critics, and actors within a taxonomy of attention for developmental disorders.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2008Review
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Abstract
Several studies have shown that children with spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM) and hydrocephalus have attention problems on parent ratings and difficulties in stimulus orienting associated with a posterior brain attention system. Less is known about response control and inhibition associated with an anterior brain attention system. Using the Gordon Vigilance Task (Gordon, 1983), we studied error rate, reaction time, and performance over time for sustained attention, a key anterior attention function, in 101 children with SBM, 17 with aqueductal stenosis (AS; another condition involving congenital hydrocephalus), and 40 typically developing controls (NC). In SBM, we investigated the relation between cognitive attention and parent ratings of inattention and hyperactivity and explored the impact of medical variables. Children with SBM did not differ from AS or NC groups on measures of sustained attention, but they committed more errors and responded more slowly. Approximately one-third of the SBM group had attention symptoms, although parent attention ratings were not associated with task performance. Hydrocephalus does not account for the attention profile of children with SBM, which also reflects the distinctive brain dysmorphologies associated with this condition.
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