Anomalous brain activation during face and gaze processing in Williams syndrome

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2070-2076

  Mobbs, D ^a   Garrett, A S ^a   Menon, V ^a   Rose, F E ^b   Bellugi, U ^b   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAZE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 2542641023     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000129536.95274.DC     Document Type: Article

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