Association between cerebral shape and social use of language in Williams syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 146, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2753-2761

  Gothelf, Doron ^a,b   Searcy, Yvonne M ^c   Reilly, Judy ^d,e   Lai, Philip T ^d   Lanre Amos, Tope ^f   Mills, Debra ^g   Korenberg, Julie R ^h   Galaburda, Albert ⁱ   Bellugi, Ursula ^c   Reiss, Allan L ^f  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Language; Shape; Social cognition; Ventral prefrontal; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ROC CURVE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55849139830     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32507     Document Type: Article

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