Clinical and neuropsychiatric status in children with Williams-Beuren Syndrome in Upper Egypt

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 560-565

  Saad, Khaled ^a   Abdelrahman, Ahmed A ^a   Abdallah, Alameldin M ^a   Othman, Hisham A K ^b   Badry, Reda ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ADHD; Autism; Children; EEG; Williams Beuren syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BABINSKI REFLEX; CHILD; CHOREIC MOVEMENT; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DYSDIADOCHOKINESIA; DYSKINESIA; DYSMETRIA; EGYPT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX DISORDER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TENDON REFLEX; TREMOR; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADHD; AUTISM; CARS; CHILDHOOD AUTISM RATING SCALE; CHILDREN; EEG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FISH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FSIQ; FULL SCALE IQ; GENERALIZED TONIC CLONIC; GTC; PERIPHERAL PULMONARY STENOSIS; PPS; SUPRAVALVULAR AORTIC STENOSIS; SVAS; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; VSD; WBS; WILLIAMS-BEUREN SYNDROME;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; EGYPT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 84888881868     PISSN: 18762018     EISSN: 18762026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2013.08.069     Document Type: Article

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