title: Attention and memory functioning among pediatric patients with medulloblastoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test the hypotheses that memory and attention deficits are prevalent in survivors of childhood medulloblastoma (MB) and that these deficits are associated with problems with academic achievement.
  
  
  METHODS
  The medical charts of 38 child survivors of MB, who were administered the California Verbal Learning Test, Child Version (CVLT-C), Conners' Continuous Performance Test (CPT), and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT) as part of a comprehensive neurocognitive test battery, were retrospectively reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Although no significant verbal memory deficits were found, 8 of 11 CPT variables were significantly below the standardization mean (p < or = .01). Additionally, stepwise regression analyses found that increased omission errors were significantly associated with lower reading and math performance (p < or = .01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings confirm previous reports of attention deficits among survivors of MB and provide a better understanding of how the dysfunction of particular attentional substrates (e.g., perceptual sensitivity, response bias) may result in learning problems in this population.
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-2794, USA. barber24@aol.com
authors.forename: Cara B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Reeves
authors.forename: Shawna L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: Wilburn E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Reddick
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.forename: Gray M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: Amar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gajjar
authors.forename: Raymond K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Mulhern
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008568:Memory; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*