Cognitive and Psychiatric Predictors to Psychosis in Velocardiofacial Syndrome: A 3-Year Follow-Up Study

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-344

  Antshel, Kevin M ^a   Shprintzen, Robert ^a   Fremont, Wanda ^a   Higgins, Anne Marie ^a   Faraone, Stephen V ^a   Kates, Wendy R ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

22q11 deletion syndrome; cognition; longitudinal; psychosis; velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS)

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BULIMIA; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITION; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENURESIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SIBLING; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TIC; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 77949656899     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-201004000-00008     Document Type: Article

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