Cerebellar abnormalities in infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 688-694

  Jones, Wendy ^a   Hesselink, John ^a,b   Courchesne, Eric ^c   Duncan, Tim ^b   Matsuda, Kevin ^b   Bellugi, Ursula ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Lab Res on the Neurosci of Autism   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CEPHALOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; REFERENCE VALUES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0036772166     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162201002766     Document Type: Article

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