Williams syndrome (WS)
Williams Syndrome: The Costs and Benefits of Chromosomal Deletion
... Williams Syndrome (WS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by vascular and heart disease, mental retardation, characteristic facial features, and characteristic ...personality. ...
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Bilateral Burkitt Lymphoma of the Ovaries: A Report of a Case in a Child with Williams Syndrome
... 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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Music in DNA: From Williams Syndrome to Musical Genes
... by Williams syndrome (WS). WS (OMIM 194050) is a multisystem genomic disorder affecting 1/7500 -1/10,000 live births caused by a hetero- zygous contiguous gene deletion on chromosome ...in ...
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Rethinking the concepts of “local or global processors”: evidence from Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, and Autism Spectrum Disorders
... with WS) in the Fragmented Pictures ...regarding Williams syndrome (Deruelle, Mancini, Livet, Casse-Perrot, & De Schonen, 1999; Deruelle, Rondan, Mancini, & Livet, 2003; Karmiloff-Smith et ...
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Health Care Supervision for Children With Williams Syndrome
... with WS usually come to the attention of pediatricians during infancy or child- ...vealed WS to be one of the more commonly recog- nized genetic disorders in ...childhood. Williams syndrome is ...
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Attention to faces in Williams syndrome
... with WS (9 males, 11 female) were recruited through the Williams syndrome ...with WS was matched to a typically developing (TD) participant of comparable non-verbal ability (NV) according to ...
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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 ...and WS are polar ...
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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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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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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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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 sociability: insights from Williams syndrome
... which comprised the most negative ratings obtained from normal controls in the original Adolphs et al. study. The stimuli were presented individually in random order, while participants were asked to rate their ...
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Adaptive behavior in Chinese children with Williams syndrome
... Children with WS have better adaptive behavior skills in some domains than would be expected given their IQ scores. They require special health care and early inter- ventions to ensure optimal development, which ...
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Genome wide array-CGH and qPCR analysis for the identification of genome defects in Williams’ syndrome patients in Saudi Arabia
... Williams’s syndrome (WS) or Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) (OMIM 194050) is a contiguous gene syndrome caused by hemizygous deletion of chromosome ...
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The regulatory function of social referencing in preschoolers with Down syndrome or Williams syndrome
... with WS had significantly higher overall intel- lectual ability and verbal abilities than did the children with ...with WS [26] despite differences in verbal and intellec- tual abilities favoring the ...
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The development of language and number understanding in Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome: Evidence from infant and mature phenotypes
... with WS? Singer Harris, Bellugi, Bates, Jones and Rossen (1997), began to address the question o f syntactic production, but not comprehension, using data from the M acArthur Communicative Development Inventory ...
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Preserved search asymmetry in the detection of fearful faces among neutral faces in individuals with Williams syndrome revealed by measurement of both manual responses and eye tracking
... with WS during a visual search ...with WS, particularly the amygdala account, from the viewpoint of conscious and nonconscious processing of fear-related ...
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Shyness discriminates between children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and Williams syndrome and predicts emergence of psychosis in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
... either WS or TD chil- dren (Figure ...and WS samples we found only a weak, although significant, correl- ation between IQ and shyness (r = ...vs. WS on each of the EAS scales, all group ef- fects ...
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The electrophysiology of face perceptions in Williams Syndrome
... ii) Stimulus effects: Significant increase in latency with monkey face inversion (as for human faces) for WS group but not controls,. iii) Stimulus effects: WS no difference in wavefo[r] ...
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A Case Study with Williams-Beuren Syndrome
... of Williams-Beuren ...describe Williams Syndrome as a disorder following different developmental trajectory than typically developing ...specific WS child is not structured differently from ...
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