Background and historical overview -- Biological and regulatory mechanisms in PWS -- The Cambridge PWS project -- Prevalence, birth incidence and mortality -- Relationship between genetic and clinical diagnosis -- Phenotypic differences between the genetic subtypes -- Cognitive function and attainments -- The behavioural phenotype of PWS -- Medical conditions affecting people with PWS -- Psychiatric illness -- Obsessions and compulsions -- Understanding PWS
Summary
This book identifies and integrates the latest findings about how best to manage the complex care needs of people with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). The data provided by the Cambridge PWS study, the largest and most rounded cohort studies of PWS in the world, is the basis of this book