Aversion, awareness, and attraction: Investigating claims of hyperacusis in the Williams syndrome phenotype

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 514-523

  Levitin, Daniel J ^a   Cole, Kristen ^b   Lincoln, Alan ^c   Bellugi, Ursula ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Hyperacusis; Loudness thresholds; Odynacusis; Oxyacusis; Williams syndrome; Williams Beuren syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUTISM; AVERSION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AWARENESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER SCALES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 18144377794     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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