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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Williams syndrome"”.
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Developmental Psychopathology in Children with Williams Syndrome
Williams syndrome (WS) is a genetic disorder that results in a wide variety of impairments, involving most of the areas of development. Although significant variability has been found among children with Williams syndrome in terms of the phenotype, the idea of a typical WS profile is still …
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Atypicalities of social functioning in children with Williams syndrome
Children with Williams syndrome (WS) are often reported to show a hyper-social phenotype which can pose implications for their interactions with strangers and peers. The present thesis aimed to obtain an in depth examination of two key areas of social difficulty in children with WS: social approach …
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Children with Williams Syndrome: Experiences of mainstream primary schools
Four children with Williams Syndrome shared their daily experiences of attending a mainstream primary school in the South West of England, UK. Using an adaptation of the Mosaic approach (Clark, 2011), children shared their perceptions and experiences of belonging to a class, developing …
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Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter
… with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and with Williams syndrome (WS) either manifested an adult-like competence, an absence of manifestation of knowledge, or a pattern found in TD younger children (where 'that' is understood better than 'the' as referring to the salient unique referent) -- …
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Analysis of Cell-Cell Interactions in the Formation of Drosophila Antennal Lobes
… linked to human nervous system diseases, CRASH syndrome and Williams syndrome, respectively. The characterization of these two conserved genes in the Drosophila brain extends our knowledge of their cellular functions and helps to shed light on the pathology of human genetic diseases.
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Spatial representation from birth to old age: Insights from comparative neurobiology and behavioral genomics.
… used a mouse model that carried one half of the Williams syndrome deletion, a disorder known for its hippocampal deficit. We show evidence that genes on the proximal deletion of Williams syndrome deletion, can alter reorientation and episodic memory, two hippocampal related functions. Finally, we …
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Der Gebrauch lexikalischer Erwerbsbeschränkungen bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom
… eine Studie zum mentalen Lexikon bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom (WBS) präsentiert. Das Lexikon junger WBS-Kinder entwickelt sich verzögert (Mervis & Robinson, 2000). Trotzdem gilt das Lexikon jugendlicher WBS-Probanden im Vergleich zu Probanden mit anderen Syndromen als elaboriert (Wang …
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Magnetic resonance imaging and surface-based analysis techniques to quantify growth of the developing brain
… and diseases such as schizophrenia and Williams syndrome. To understand the mechanism of gyrification, and to illuminate the underlying causes of abnormal folding, objective, quantitative methods to characterize normal and abnormal development must be developed. The ferret is an …
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Preliminary evidence that prenatal maternal choline supplementation protects the white matter microstructure of infants born to heavy-drinking women
… our hypothesis. Studies of participants with Williams syndrome and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have speculated that the lower FA observed in their control groups may be accredited to higher levels of axonal branching. Given that choline promotes axonal growth and branching in …