Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay

Genetic and Epigenetic Factors

Autor: Moyra Smith

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Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc

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Recent advances in neuroscience and genetics have greatly expanded our understanding of the brain an...

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Autor

Moyra Smith

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2005

strony

344

EAN

9780195174328

ISBN

0195174321

Enbook ID

04516369

Wydawca

Oxford University Press Inc

Waga

598

Wymiary

162 x 242 x 20

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Recent advances in neuroscience and genetics have greatly expanded our understanding of the brain and of the etiological factors involved in developmental delay and mental retardation. At the same time, the human genome project has yielded a wealth of information on DNA sequencing, regulation of gene expression, epigenetics, and functional aspects of the genome, which newly propels investigation into the pathogenesis of mental retardation. This book makes readily available current knowledge on the subject and applies it to clinical medicine, providing information essential to neurologists, geneticists, physicians and pediatricians as they search for the causes of mental handicap in their patients. Introductory chapters cover normal and abnormal brain structure, neurogenesis, neuronal proliferation, and signal transduction. Latter chapters delve into discussions of both the environmental factors that may lead to neurocognitive deficits and the cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular defects specifically associated with mental retardation. One chapter reviews gene involvement in non-syndromic mental retardation, autism, and language deficits, as well as multifactorial and genetically complex inheritance. The text concludes with a clinically practical discussion of carrier detection, presymptomatic diagnosis, and treatment of various genetic diseases through enzyme therapy, substrate deprivation, and the use of hemapoietic stem cells.

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