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A genetic model for understanding higher order visual processing: functional interactions of the ventral visual stream in Williams syndrome.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 1 Oct 2008
Sarpal Deepak, Buchsbaum Bradley R, Kohn Philip D, Kippenhan J Shane, Mervis Carolyn B, Morris Colleen A, Meyer-Lindenberg Andreas, Berman Karen Faith
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Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a 1.6 Mb microdeletion on chromosome 7q11.23 and characterized by hypersocial personality and prominent visuospatial construction impairments. Previous WS studies have identified functional and structural abnormalities in the hippocampal formation, prefrontal regions crucial for amygdala regulation and social cognition, and the dorsal visual...
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