The cognitive neuropsychological phenotype of carriers of the FMR1 premutation

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Grigsby, Jim ^a,b   Cornish, Kim ^c   Hocking, Darren ^d   Kraan, Claudine ^c   Olichney, John M ^e,f   Rivera, Susan M ^e,g   Schneider, Andrea ^e,g   Sherman, Stephanie ^h   Wang, Jun Yi ^e,f   Yang, Jin Chen ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition disorders; Executive function; FMR1; Fragile X; Fragile X premutation; Fragile X associated tremor ataxia syndrome; FXTAS

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MEMANTINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE PREMUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84958120929     PISSN: 18661947     EISSN: 18661955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1866-1955-6-28     Document Type: Review

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