Abstract
Some residual impairment in the learning and remembering of new material is one of the commonest and most consistent sequelae of closed head injury. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of memory dysfunction in head injured children and this paper reports a study of such deficits.
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White, S. (1985). Effects of Brain Injury in Children. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Retardation, and Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9367-6_10
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