title: Mental deficiency, alterations in performance, and CNS abnormalities in overgrowth syndromes.
abstract: Mental deficiency, alterations in performance, and central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities are discussed in the following overgrowth syndromes: Sotos syndrome, Weaver syndrome, Proteus syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1, fragile X syndrome, syndromes with neonatal hypoglycemia, Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, hemihyperplasia, Sturge-Weber syndrome, Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba/Cowden syndrome, macrocephaly-autism syndrome, PEHO syndrome, chromosomal syndromes, and other miscellaneous syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 3J5 Nova Scotia, Canada. remaclea@is.dal.ca
authors.forename: M Michael
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000002:abnormalities; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome