Velocardiofacial syndrome: Is there a neuropsychiatric phenotype?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 96-101

  Jolin, Edith M ^b   Weller, Elizabeth B ^a   Weller, Ronald A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROBIOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 33645571589     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-006-0005-3     Document Type: Review

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