Genetic and environmental vulnerabilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 17261-17265

  Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a   D'Souza, Dean ^a   Dekker, Tessa M ^a   Van Herwegen, Jo ^b   Xu, Fei ^c   Rodic, Maja ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Down syndrome; Infant development; Number development; Social cognition; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFANCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 84870911586     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121087109     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Butterworth B (2010) Foundational numerical capacities and the origins of dyscalculia. Trends Cogn Sci 14:534-541.
2. Clahsen H, Temple CM (2003) Words and rules in children with William's syndrome. Language Competence Across Populations: Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment, eds Levy Y, Schaeffer J (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), pp 323-352.
3. Karmiloff-Smith A (1998) Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders. Trends Cogn Sci 2:389-398.
4. Karmiloff-Smith A (2009) Nativism versus neuroconstructivism: Rethinking the study of developmental disorders. Dev Psychol 45:56-63.
5. Mareschal D, et al. (2007) Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition (Oxford Univ Press, Oxford).
6. Farran EK, Karmiloff-Smith A (2012) Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan: A Neuroconstructivist Approach (Oxford Univ Press, Oxford).
7. Johnson MH (2001) Functional brain development in humans. Nat Rev Neurosci 2:475-483.
8. Huttenlocher PR, Dabholkar AS (1997) Regional differences in synaptogenesis in human cerebral cortex. J Comp Neurol 387:167-178. (Pubitemid 27430343)
9. Mills DL, Coffy-Corins S, Neville H (1997) Language comprehension and cerebral specialisation from 13-20 months. Dev Psychol 13:397-445. (Pubitemid 127509812)
10. Meaney MJ, Szyf M (2005) Environmental programming of stress responses through DNA methylation: Life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome. Dialogues Clin Neurosci 7:103-123. (Pubitemid 40961531)
11. Thomas MSC, et al. (2009) Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders. J Speech Lang Hear Res 52:336-358.
12. Dehaene S (1997) The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (Oxford Univ Press, Oxford).
13. Demeyere N, Lestou V, Humphreys GW (2010) Neuropsychological evidence for a dissociation in counting and subitizing. Neurocase 16:219-237.
14. Brannon EM (2006) The representation of numerical magnitude. Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:222-229.
15. Izard V, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Dehaene S (2008) Distinct cerebral pathways for object identity and number in human infants. PLoS Biol 6:e11.
16. Lipton JS, Spelke ES (2003) Origins of number sense. Large-number discrimination in human infants. Psychol Sci 14:396-401. (Pubitemid 37282801)
17. Xu F (2003) Numerosity discrimination in infants: Evidence for two systems of representations. Cognition 89:B15-B25.
18. Xu F, Spelke ES (2000) Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants. Cognition 74:B1-B11.
19. Simon TJ (1997) Reconceptualizing the origins of number knowledge: A 'non-numerical' account. Cogn Dev 12:349-372.
20. Van Herwegen J, Ansari D, Xu F, Karmiloff-Smith A (2008) Small and large number processing in infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome. Dev Sci 11:637-643.
21. Paterson SJ, Brown JH, Gsödl MK, Johnson MH, Karmiloff-Smith A (1999) Cognitive modularity and genetic disorders. Science 286:2355-2358. (Pubitemid 30016900)
22. O'Hearn K, Luna B (2009) Mathematical skills in Williams syndrome: Insight into the importance of underlying representations. Dev Disabil Res Rev 15:11-20.
23. Ansari D, Donlan C, Karmiloff-Smith A (2007) Typical and atypical development of visual estimation abilities. Cortex 43:758-768. (Pubitemid 47180713)
24. Paterson SJ, Girelli L, Butterworth B, Karmiloff-Smith A (2006) Are numerical impairments syndrome specific? Evidence from Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:190-204.
25. Brannon EM, Abbott S, Lutz DJ (2004) Number bias for the discrimination of large visual sets in infancy. Cognition 93:B59-B68. (Pubitemid 39451874)
26. Xu F, Arriaga RI (2007) Number discrimination in 10-month-old infants. Br J Dev Psychol 25:103-108.
27. Karmiloff-Smith A, Scerif G, Ansari D (2003) Double dissociations in developmental disorders? Theoretically misconceived, empirically dubious. Cortex 39:161-163. (Pubitemid 36236192)
28. Casey BJ, Giedd JN, Thomas KM (2000) Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development. Biol Psychol 54:241-257.
29. Gou Z, Choudhury N, Benasich AA (2011) Resting frontal gamma power at 16, 24 and 36 months predicts individual differences in language and cognition at 4 and 5 years. Behav Brain Res 220:263-270.
30. Brown JH, et al. (2003) Spatial representation and attention in toddlers with Williams syndrome and Down syndrome. Neuropsychologia 41:1037-1046. (Pubitemid 36349395)
31. Tobii (2003) Tobii User Manual (Tobii, Stockholm), 2nd Ed.
32. Krakow JB, Kopp CB (1982) Sustained attention in young Down syndrome children. Topics Early Child Spec Educ 2:32-42.
33. Casey BJ, Riddle M (2012) Typical and atypical development of attention. Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, ed Posner MI (Guilford, New York), 2nd Ed., pp 345-356.
34. Dakin SC, Tibber M, Greenwood JA, Kingdom FA, Morgan MJ (2011) A common visual metric for approximate number and density. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:19552-19557.
35. Leonard HC, Annaz D, Karmiloff-Smith A, Johnson MH (2011) Developing spatial frequency biases for face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 41:968-973.
36. Annaz D, Karmiloff-Smith A, Johnson MH, Thomas MSC (2009) A cross-syndrome study of the development of holistic face recognition in children with autism, Down syndrome, and Williams syndrome. J Exp Child Psychol 102:456-486.
37. Choudhury N, Benasich AA (2011) Maturation of auditory evoked potentials from 6 to 48 months: Prediction to 3 and 4 year language and cognitive abilities. Clin Neurophysiol 122:320-338.
38. Frith U (2003) Autism: Explaining the Enigma (Blackwell, Oxford).
39. Barnard L, Muldoon K, Hasan R, O'Brien G, Stewart M (2008) Profiling executive dysfunction in adults with autism and comorbid learning disability. Autism 12:125-141. (Pubitemid 351344566)
40. Charman T, et al. (1997) Infants with autism: An investigation of empathy, pretend play, joint attention, and imitation. Dev Psychol 33:781-789.
41. Elsabbagh M, et al. (2012) Infant neural sensitivity to dynamic eye gaze is associated with later emerging autism. Curr Biol 22:338-342.
42. Karmiloff-Smith A (2012) Brain: The neuroconstructivist approach. Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan: A Neuroconstructivist Approach, eds Farran EK, Karmiloff-Smith A (Oxford Univ Press, Oxford), pp 37-58.
43. Liston C, McEwen BS, Casey BJ (2009) Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:912-917.
44. Isaacs EB, Edmonds CJ, Chong WK, Lucas A, Gadian DG (2003) Cortical anomalies associated with visuospatial processing deficits. Ann Neurol 53:768-773. (Pubitemid 36622514)
45. Isaacs EB, et al. (2010) Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development. Pediatr Res 67:357-362.
46. Tottenham N, et al. (2009) Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically larger amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation. Dev Sci 13:46-61.
47. Tottenham N, et al. (2011) Elevated amygdala response to faces following early deprivation. Dev Sci 14:190-204.
48. John AE, Mervis CB (2010) Comprehension of the communicative intent behind pointing and gazing gestures by young children with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome. J Speech Lang Hear Res 53:950-960.
49. Karmiloff-Smith A, et al. (2010) Constraints on the timing of infant cognitive change: Domain-specific or domain-general? Eur J Dev Sci 4:31-45.