title: Specific memory impairment following neonatal encephalopathy in term-born children.
abstract: This study examines short-term memory, verbal working memory, episodic long-term memory, and intelligence in 32 children with mild neonatal encephalopathy (NE), 39 children with moderate NE, 10 children with NE who developed cerebral palsy (CP), and 53 comparison children, at the age of 9 to 10 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  in addition to a global effect on intelligence, NE had a specific effect on verbal working memory, verbal and visuo-spatial long-term memory, and learning, which was associated with degree of NE. Although these memory problems occurred in children without CP, they were more pronounced when children had also developed CP.
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. marielle_van_handel@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mariëlle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Handel
authors.forename: Leo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Sonneville
authors.forename: Linda S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: Marian J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Jongmans
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Swaab
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology