A Multilevel Analysis of Cognitive Dysfunction and Psychopathology Associated With Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome in Children  

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Emanuel, Beverly S. ; Ferrante, Samantha ; Simon, Tony J. ; Bish, Joel P. ; Bearden, Carrie E. ; Lijun, Ding ; Gee, James C. ; Zackai, Elaine H. ; Nguyen, V.Y. ; McDonald-McGinn, Donna M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Development and Psychopathology vol. 17 no. 3 (2005), page 753-784.
Topik: SYNDROMES; chromosom 22q11.2; cognitive dysfunction; psychopathology; multilevel analysis; deletion syndrome; children
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We present a multilevel approach to developing potential explanations of cognitive impairments and psychopathologies common to individuals with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Results presented support our hypothesis of posterior parietal dysfunction as a central determinant of characteristic visuospatial and numerical cognitive impairments. Converging data suggest that brain development anomalies, primarily tissue reductions in the posterior brain and changes to the corpus callosum, may affect parietal connectivity. Further findings indicate that dysfunction in “frontal” attention systems may explain some executive cognition impairments observed in affected children, and that there may be links between these domains of cognitive function and some of the serious psychiatric conditions, such as attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autism, and schizophrenia, that have elevated incidence rates in the syndrome. Linking the neural structure and the cognitive processing levels in this way enabled us to develop an elaborate structure / function mapping hypothesis for the impairments that are observed. We show also, that in the case of the catechol - O - methyltransferase gene, a fairly direct relationship between gene expression, cognitive function, and psychopathology exists in the affected population. Beyond that, we introduce the idea that variation in other genes may further explain the phenotypic variation in cognitive function and possibly the anomalies in brain development.

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