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Laterality in persons with intellectual disability. I--do patients with trisomy 21 and Williams-Beuren syndrome differ from typically developing persons?

Persons with trisomy 21 (T21) and Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) have different brain abnormalities which may affect manual laterality. We assessed 45 persons with T21 and 34 with WBS (mean age 13) and 81 typically developing children (TD). Manual laterality was assessed with a fifteen-item task administered two times, and Bishop's card-reaching task. We found more left-handers in the T21 group compared to the other two groups. Inconsistent laterality was higher in the two groups with genetic diseases than in the TD group. For Bishop's test, both T21 and WBS participants were less right-oriented than the TD group. They displayed different response patterns in midline crossing when reaching for the cards, but did not display more midline crossing inhibition than the TD group. Is atypical handedness linked to specific genetic syndromes and, more specifically for persons with T21, to the trisomy of some of the genes?

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[The current family situation from the child psychiatrist's viewpoint and its effects on the personality development of the child].

The report discusses three aspects of the modern family situation: 1. Stability and continuity of the current family situation in today's West Germany: the woman is subject to contradictory expectations from the society which seems to contribute to the ambivalence of the mother-child relationship as well as to the tendency of misinterpreting the child as a substitute for own needs. 2. Child abuse as an extreme example for a distorted family life: Exaggerated and illusionary presumptions about the child and the intact family life lead to traumatising experiences in the family. 3. Family and chronic illness of a child: Without the involvement and commitment of the family the scientific programs in medicine will not lead to advanced medical treatment.

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Social and other environmental influences on the cognitive and personality development of low birthweight infants.

Research on the cognitive development of low-birthweight infants was reviewed, followed by suggestions for promising future research strategies. On-going studies at the Rose F. Kennedy Center were described to illustrate the proposed model. Central features of the expanded approach are as follows: The study of high-risk populations should include, beyond biologic and broadly conceived social measures and beyond cognitive outcome, measures of development in the psychosocial domain. Further, detailed assessment of the children's daily life and behavior patterns can provide clues for causal linkages to account for the association between social economic status and cognitive development.

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