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Psychophysiological Evaluation of Neuropsychological Disorders in Children

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Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology

In recent years the differential diagnosis of neuropsychological disorders in children has been of considerable interest, both from the clinical and neurophysiological points of view. Contradictory results based on quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) may be related to small sample sizes or differences in sample selection, age ranges, or subtyping a particular deficit.

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Harmony, T. (2009). Psychophysiological Evaluation of Neuropsychological Disorders in Children. In: Reynolds, C.R., Fletcher-Janzen, E. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78867-8_17

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