Citing concerns about the possibility of a link between this toxin and impaired language, memory, cognitive thinking and fine - motor and visual -
spatial skills among children who were exposed to it in utero, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have established fish - intake guidelines for women who are pregnant or might become pregnant (and, later, when nursing).
Not exact matches
The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are
skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of
spatial relationships
among objects), memory, and social cognition.
The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (
skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of
spatial relationships
among objects), memory, and social cognition.
The relations
among various
spatial and mathematics
skills were assessed in a cross-sectional study of 854 children from kindergarten, third, and sixth grades (i.e., 5 to 13 years of age).