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SUBMITTER: Thornton-Wells TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2862007 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities 20100301 2
Williams syndrome is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder with a distinctive phenotype, including cognitive-linguistic features, nonsocial anxiety, and a strong attraction to music. we preformed functional MRI studies examining brain responses to musical and other types of stimuli in young adults with Williams syndrome and typically developing controls. In Study 1, the Williams syndrome group exhibited unforeseen activations of the visual cortex to musical stimuli, and it was this novel finding ...[more]