What are the features of Williams syndrome?
Williams syndrome is characterised by supravalvar aortic stenosis, elfin facies and hypercalcemia. Learning disability is often associated. Peripheral pulmonary stenosis is also an association.
In supravalvar aortic stenosis, the right upper limb blood pressure can be more than that in left upper limb causing anisopsphygmia, because the jet is directed towards the brachiocephalic artery. This is due to Coanda effect. (Source: Cardiophile MD)
Source: Cardiophile MD - November 21, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Oral History Study Explores What It ’s Like To Receive An Autism Diagnosis Later In Life
By guest blogger Dan Carney
A key development in autism research in the last twenty-odd years has been the use of less rigid methods such as interviews, fieldwork, and surveys, instead of those based on standardised measurements or other “laboratory-based” tasks. These looser approaches, in tandem with the increasing popularity of autobiographical writing by autistic people, have served to complement more traditional research by adding nuance and detail to understandings of the condition.
Now, a team from Australia led by Rozanna Lilley has used such an approach with a population underrepresented in autism resea...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism guest blogger Qualitative The self Source Type: blogs
Autistic Children May Experience Less Variation In Their Bodily Emotional Responses
By guest blogger Dan Carney
Research into emotion processing in autistic people has mainly focused on how they understand others’ emotions. A more limited body of work into how autistic people process their own emotions has, however, suggested difficulties identifying and describing emotional experiences, and distinguishing between emotional states. The latter is potentially important, as it is associated with negative outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and self-injurious behavior, all of which have been suggested to occur more frequently in autism than in the general population.
So far, studie...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism Emotion guest blogger The self Source Type: blogs
Towards a New Functional Anatomy of Language: A Proposal for a Special Issue of Cognition, circa 2001
Conclusions Michael UllmanGeorgetown University The contribution of brain memory circuits to language Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words, and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of lexical forms into predictably structured larger words, phrases, and sentences. The Declarative/Procedural model posits that the lexicon/grammar distinction in language is tied to the distinction between two well-studied brain memory systems. On this view, the memorization and use of at least si...
Source: Talking Brains - March 8, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
“Visual-Verbal Prompting” Could Make Interviews More Manageable For Autistic People
By guest blogger Dan Carney
A key feature of interviews is open-ended questioning inviting the recall of past experiences and memories — what psychologists call “autobiographical” memory. Having to provide this information accurately and coherently, combined with the stress of the situation, can often make being interviewed a demanding and uncomfortable experience.
That is especially true of autistic people, who may have difficulties with both autobiographical memory and open-ended questioning. Many autistic people report job interviews as a major barrier to employment, and it’s possible that interview difficultie...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism Health Job interviews Source Type: blogs
What People Think They Know About Autism Bears Little Relation To Their Actual Knowledge
By guest blogger Dan Carney
One of the most well-known psychological biases is the Dunning-Kruger effect: the tendency for individuals less skilled or knowledgeable in a particular area to overestimate their own performance. Now, a team of researchers from Miami University, Ohio, have offered the most robust evidence yet that this may apply to knowledge about autism — that what people think they know about the condition may not be that closely related to what they actually know.
Writing in the March issue of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, the authors — led by Camilla McMahon — measured perceived and actual ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism guest blogger Source Type: blogs
Merry Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 264
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 264 - Christmas Edition
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF Awakening Baron Constantin von Economo Christmas BMJ Edrophonium Elf Elfin facies Encephalitis Lethargica Golf Ice test Man flu Myasthenia Gravis Williams syndrome Source Type: blogs
Williams syndrome – Cardiology MCQ – Answer
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Which of the following is not a part of Williams syndrome?
Correct answer: d) Valvar pulmonary stenosis
Williams syndrome is characterised by supravalvar aortic stenosis, elfin facies and hypercalcemia. Learning disability is often associated. Peripheral pulmonary stenosis is also an association. In supravalvar aortic stenosis, the right upper limb blood pressure can be more than that in left upper limb (anisopsphygmia) because the jet is directed towards the brachiocephal...
Source: Cardiophile MD - May 14, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs
Williams syndrome – Cardiology MCQ
Which of the following is not a part of Williams syndrome?
a) Supravalvar aortic stenosis
b) Elfin facies
c) Hypercalcemia
d) Valvar pulmonary stenosis
Post your answer as a comment below. Correct answer will be published on: May 14, 2018 @ 22:21
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Source: Cardiophile MD - May 12, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Researchers are figuring out how sense of self develops differently in autistic teens
By guest blogger Dan Carney
Our autobiographical memory is fundamental to the development of our sense of self. However, according to past research, it may be compromised in autism, together with other skills that are also vital for self understanding, such as introspection and the ability to attribute mental states to others (known as mentalising).
For example, experiments involving autistic children have highlighted retrieval difficulties, “impoverished narratives”, and a greater need for prompting, while also suggesting that semantic recall (facts from the past) may be impaired in younger individuals.
Now a UK resea...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism guest blogger Memory Thought Source Type: blogs
Neurodevelopmental model of Williams syndrome offers insight into human social brain
In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at …Read it on FlipboardRead it on psypost.org (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - August 12, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Wherever You Go: Self-Representation and Williams Syndrome
Jess Libow is currently a summer intern at the Bellevue Literary Review. She is a rising senior English major at Haverford College interested in disability studies. All photos courtesy of camp staff Looking out over the dance floor at Nashville's Wildhorse Saloon as other members of our group line danced […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 14, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jess Libow Tags: Health Care A Different Take Literature Arts and Medicine Blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Williams syndrome
Williams syndrome is characterised by supravalvar aortic stenosis, elfin facies and hypercalcemia. Learning disability is often associated. Peripheral pulmonary stenosis is also an association. In supravalvar aortic stenosis, the right upper limb blood pressure can be more than that in left upper limb (anisopsphygmia) because the jet is directed towards the brachiocephalic artery. This is known as Coanda effect. (Source: Cardiophile MD)
Source: Cardiophile MD - July 28, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology anisopsphygmia Coanda effect elfin facies Hypercalcemia Learning disability Peripheral pulmonary stenosis right upper limb blood pressure can be more than that in left upper limb supravalvar aortic stenosis Williams sy Source Type: blogs
