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The development of mental state attributions in women with X-monosomy, and the role of monoamine oxidase B in the sociocognitive phenotype.
Cognition - 1 Jan 2007
Lawrence K, Jones A, Oreland L, Spektor D, Mandy W, Campbell R, Skuse D
Abstract excerpt
We hypothesized that women with Turner syndrome (45,X) with a single X-chromosome inherited from their mother may show mentalizing deficits compared to women of normal karyotype with two X-chromosomes (46,X). Simple geometrical animation events (two triangles moving with apparent intention in relation to each other) which usually elicit mental-state descriptions in normally developing people, did not do so to the...
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