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    Malaria with neurological involvement in Ugandan children: effect on cognitive ability, academic achievement and behaviour 

    Bangirana, Paul; Segane, Musisi; Boivin, Michael J.; Ehnvall, Anna; Chandy, C. John; Bergermann, Tracy L.; Allebeck, Peter (BioMed Central, 2011-11-03)
    Background Malaria is a leading cause of ill health and neuro-disability in children in sub-Saharan Africa. Impaired cognition is a common outcome of malaria with neurological involvement. There is also a possibility ...
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    Socioeconomic predictors of cognition in Ugandan children: implications for community interventions 

    Bangirana, Paul; John, C. Candy; Idro, Richard; Opoka, Robert O.; Byarugaba, Justus; Jurek, Anne M.; Boivin, Michael J. (Public Library of Science, 2009)
    Background: Several interventions to improve cognition in at risk children have been suggested. Identification of key variables predicting cognition is necessary to guide these interventions. This study was conducted to ...
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    HIV-subtype A is associated with poorer neuropsychological performance compared with subtype D in antiretroviral therapy-naive Ugandan children 

    Boivin, Michael J.; Bangirana, Paul; Kamya, Moses R.; Achan, Jane; Akello, Carolyne; Wong, Joseph K.; Boal, Hannah E.; Ruel, Theodore D.; Havlir, Diane V.; Charlebois, Edwin; Eller, Leigh A.; Cao, Huyen (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010)
    Background: HIV-subtype D is associated with more rapid disease progression and higher rates of dementia in Ugandan adults compared with HIV-subtype A. There are no data comparing neuropsychological function by HIV subtype ...
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    Cognition, behaviour and academic skills after cognitive rehabilitation in Ugandan children surviving severe malaria: a randomised trial 

    Bangirana, Paul; Allebeck, Peter; Boivin, Michael J.; John, Candy C.; Page, Connie; Ehnvall, Anna; Musisi, Seggane (BioMed Central, 2011)
    Background: Infection with severe malaria in African children is associated with not only a high mortality but also a high risk of cognitive deficits. There is evidence that interventions done a few years after the illness ...
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    Cognitive impairment after cerebral malaria in children: a prospective study 

    Boivin, Michael J.; Bangirana, Paul; Byarugaba, Justus; Opoka, Robert O.; Idro, Richard; Jurek, Anne M.; Chandy, C. John (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007-01-15)
    OBJECTIVE. This study was conducted to assess prospectively the frequency of cognitive deficits in children with cerebral malaria. METHODS. Cognitive testing in the areas of working memory, attention, and learning was ...
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    Seizure activity and neurological sequelae in Ugandan children who have survived an episode of cerebral malaria 

    Opoka, Robert O.; Bangirana, Paul; Boivin, Michael J.; Chandy, C. John; Byarugaba, Justus (African Health Sciences, 2009)
    Background: Seizures are a common presenting feature in children with cerebral malaria (CM) and neurologic deficits have been described in survivors of CM. However few prospective studies have described the frequency of ...
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    Reliability of the Luganda version of the Child Behaviour Checklist in measuring behavioural problems after cerebral malaria 

    Bangirana, Paul; Nakasujja, Noeline; Giordani, Bruno; Opoka, Robert O.; Chandy, C. John; Boivin, Michael J. (BioMed Central, 2009-12-08)
    Background: No measure of childhood behaviour has been validated in Uganda despite the documented risks to behaviour. Cerebral malaria in children poses a great risk to their behaviour, however behavioural outcomes after ...

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