Williams syndrome
Attention to faces in Williams syndrome
... Twenty individuals with WS (9 males, 11 female) were recruited through the Williams syndrome Foundation. All participants had previously been diagnosed phenotypically by clinicians, with their diagnosis ...
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Williams Syndrome: The Costs and Benefits of Chromosomal Deletion
... for Williams syndrome, remain to be ...that Williams Syndrome patients show notable strengths in language and facial processing but weaknesses in their special cognitive ...Down ...
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Health Care Supervision for Children With Williams Syndrome
... the Williams Syndrome Association (570 Kirts Boulevard, Suite 223, Troy, MI 48084-4156; phone: 800-806-1871 [toll free] and 248-244-2229; fax: 248-244-2230; e-mail: ...of Williams Syndrome (PO ...
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Health Care Supervision for Children With Williams Syndrome
... childhood. Williams syndrome is characterized by dysmorphic facies (100%), cardiovascular disease (most commonly sup- ravalvar aortic stenosis [80%]), mental retardation (75%), a characteristic cognitive ...
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Music in DNA: From Williams Syndrome to Musical Genes
... Analysis in silico, made through computer programs, represents an important new research method that al- lows the examination of a large amount of data not possible in a different way, if not with great human and eco- ...
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Adaptive behavior in Chinese children with Williams syndrome
... Williams syndrome (WS) is a neurogenetic disorder that occurs in about 1 in every 8,000 live births. WS is caused by the contiguous deletion of 26 – 28 genes on chromo- some 7q11.23. Individuals with WS ...
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Williams Syndrome: Features in Late Childhood and Adolescence
... Peabody Individual Achievement Test Reported by Grade Level for Children With Williams Syndrome. Patient No[r] ...
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Developmental course of conversational behaviour of children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and Williams syndrome
... This study investigated three conversational subskills in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS, n = 8, ages 7–13) and Williams syndrome (WS, n = 8, ages 6– 12). We re-evaluated these ...
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Face processing in Williams syndrome is already atypical in infancy
... Further claims for this nativist, modular perspective call on a rare genetic disorder, Williams syndrome (WS: for full genotypic/phenotypic details, see Farran and Karmiloff-Smith, 2012). Adolescents and ...
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Williams Syndrome (gregarious brain, nyt).pdf
... creates Williams syndrome, he’ll live with not only some fairly conventional cognitive deficits, like trouble with space and numbers, but also a strange set of traits that researchers call the ...
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Language and emotional abilities in children with Williams syndrome and children with autism spectrum disorder: similarities and differences
... Abstract: Williams syndrome (WS) is a genetic disease with a relatively homogeneous profile: relatively well-preserved language, impaired cognitive activities, and ...
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Dynamic sustained attention markers differentiate atypical development: the case of Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome
... with Williams syndrome have di ffi culty in maintaining attention, as re fl ected in a signi fi cant accuracy decrement over the second half of the ...Down's syndrome did not show sign of performance ...
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A preliminary study of orbitofrontal activation and hypersociability in Williams Syndrome
... Abstract Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) demon- strate an abnormally positive social bias. However, the neural substrates of this hypersociability, i.e., positive attribution bias and increased ...
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Electrophysiological study of local/global processing in Williams syndrome
... Abstract Persons with Williams syndrome (WS) demon- strate pronounced deficits in visuo-spatial processing. The purpose of the current study was to examine the preferred level of perceptual analysis in ...
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Language and sociability: insights from Williams syndrome
... of Williams syndrome (WS) is the widely reported excessive sociability, accompanied by a relative proficiency in expressive language, which stands in stark contrast with significant intellectual and ...
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Intracranial Arteries in Individuals with the Elastin Gene Hemideletion of Williams Syndrome
... with Williams syndrome, we have documented that, except for a minor difference in the anatomic configuration of the ACA, the major intracranial arteries in Williams syndrome were similar to ...
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Thoracolumbar Syrinx in Association With Williams Syndrome
... with Williams syndrome and a spinal ...causing Williams syn- drome is not necessarily the direct cause of the syrinx, because this is the first known reported case of a syrinx occurring in ...
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The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome
... Williams syndrome is of particular relevance to studying figurative language because it is a developmental disorder in which aspects of language development are in advance of the general level of cognitive ...
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Bilateral Burkitt Lymphoma of the Ovaries: A Report of a Case in a Child with Williams Syndrome
... Features of WS include congenital heart disease, hyperten- sion, premature aging of skin, dysmorphic facial features, infantile hypercalcemia, gregarious personality, and mental retardation with Intelligence Quotients ...
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Language acquisition in Williams syndrome: Lexical constraints and semantic organisation
... called Williams Syndrome. The syndrome appears to be associated with a defective gene on chromosome 11 involved in the regulation of calcium, and it acts in complex ways on the brain, skull, and ...
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