Reduced parietal and visual cortical activation during global processing in Williams syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 433-438

  Mobbs, Dean ^a   Eckert, Mark A ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a   Mills, Debbie ^b   Korenberg, Julie ^c   Galaburda, Albert M ^d   Rose, Fred E ^e   Bellugi, Ursula ^e   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WECHSLER SCALES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 34249826087     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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