Advances in research on the neurological and neuropsychiatric phenotype of Klinefelter syndrome

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-143

  Savic, Ivanka ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain; MRI; Neuropsychology; Sex chromosome; XXY

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN SIZE; DEPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FLUENCY DISORDER; GENE DOSAGE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTUITION; JUMPING; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS;

EID: 84859762992     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e32835181a0     Document Type: Review

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