Brain scans offer insight into Williams syndrome

Brain scans offer insight into Williams syndrome - health - 12 March 2012 - New Scientist:

"Mbemba Jabbi at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues studied MRI scans of 14 people with the syndrome. They found that the insula – a brain region involved in emotion – was smaller than in 23 people without the syndrome.
When Jabbi's team used PET scans to examine the insula in more detail, though, they found that one area of the right insula was larger in people with Williams syndrome. Those with more extreme personality differences had more grey matter here."

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