Neuropsychological functioning in children with immunodeficiency disorders.
A small group of children with various types of immunodeficiency disorders, examined on a battery of neuropsychological and intellectual tests, was found to be impaired on perceptual speed, visuospatial sequencing, and visual attention span capacities when compared to a control group of closest aged siblings and normal children matched for age, education, and IQ. The results suggest that cerebral dysfunction may be associated with immunodeficiency disorders in children, although these findings are tentative since other factors, such as the effects of chronic illness, could not be excluded in this small cohort of patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014796:Visual Perception