Genetics Of Mental Retardation

Author : Elisabeth M. Dykens
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics and Mental Retardation Syndromes written by Elisabeth M. Dykens and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses in detail the genetic causes and implications, prevalence, physical characteristics, cognitive profiles, speech and language, medical complications, and behaviors of four major syndromes (Down, Williams, fragile X, and Prader-Willi) an

Author : Samantha J. L. Knight
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN 13 : 3805592809
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics of Mental Retardation written by Samantha J. L. Knight and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable publication focuses on the importance of genetics in mental retardation, investigating the extent to which molecular diagnostic capability and the understanding of genetic causes have improved over recent years. As a result, clinical evaluation and diagnostic laboratory practice are now undergoing an unprecedented period of change. In a single volume, a unique combination of key individuals and world-class clinical, diagnostic and research-based experts share specialized, state-of the-art knowledge in this field. The parents' perspective lies behind chapters dealing with issues such as: - Classification nomenclature - Well-known syndromes - How modern technologies have resulted in newly identified syndromes - How genome architecture can influence disease - Guidelines for clinical evaluation - Valuable database resources for clinical, diagnostic and research departments - Challenges involved in data interpretation and determining clinical relevance - Genetic overlaps with autism and schizophrenia - Processes of health service implementation Genetics of Mental Retardation is an invaluable resource for researchers and students with an active interest in the field. Furthermore, consultants and trainees in clinical genetics and pediatrics, and researchers working in clinical genetics laboratories will benefit from these reviews.

Author : Moyra Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195174321
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay written by Moyra Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. A. Rondal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Disabilities written by J. A. Rondal and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in biobehavioural sciences are bringing important changes in the field of intellectual disabilities. Of particular interest is the description of particular behavioural phenotypes related to but distinct from genotypes, and the extent to which they are specific. In this text, more than 20 particular genetic syndromes with marked levels of intellectual disability are identified and described from a variety of points of view, including cognitive, language, behavioural, adaptive and social and community inclusion aspects. Readers should better understand genetic intellectual disabilities and how they affect individual behaviours. Researchers and practitioners, including mental health professionals, speech-language therapists, special educators and social workers, should learn considerably more about actively researched syndromes such as Down, Williams, Fragile-X, Prader-Willi, Angelman, Rett, 5-p (Cri-du-chat), Noonan and several others, and obtain the evidence-based information they need to improve developmental, educational, occupational and residential situations, favouring inclusion for the people with intellectual disability syndromes.

Author : Eliot Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genetics of Mental Disorders written by Eliot Slater and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merlin Butler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429559100
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics of Developmental Disabilities written by Merlin Butler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2005: Genetics of Developmental Disabilities is written as a textbook and resource for physicians, basic and clinical researchers, and other professionals, students, and health care providers. Those interested in the causes and scientific understanding of developmental disabilities.

Author : E.K. Hicks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genetics of Mental Retardation written by E.K. Hicks and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bishop Bekkers Foundation, devoted to the welfare of those with mental handicap and to the amelioration and prevention of this and related disabilities, is to be warmly congratulated for sponsoring and organizing the 1986 Inter national Workshop from which the present book is derived. With commendable foresight, the Foundation recognized that genetic aspects of mental handicap were a timely focus for the Workshop and that dramatic biomedical developments and prospects in this sphere have highly significant psychosocial and ethical ramifications. The papers of the 23 contributors in each of these areas, together with an introductory essay and discussion summaries, comprise this volume. Much of the subject matter is inevitably concerned with such sensitive issues as sanctity and quality of life and the - sometimes contrasting and even in conflict - rights and needs of the actually and potentially handicapped, their relatives and society in general. Such considerations, not surprisingly, engender different approaches and viewpoints. The papers in this book reflect this, with the editing attempting to achieve, as far as possible, a coherent and consistent format and not an identical outlook. The perceptions and views expressed in each paper are there fore those of the author concerned and not necessarily those of the editors or of the Bishop Bekkers Foundation.

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080546110
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Review of Research in Mental Retardation written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-06-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences. Volume 22 is an eclectic volume with chapters on genetics, developmental skills, and methodological issues, as well as review chapters on the Savant Syndrome, and supported employment programs. Contributors for this volume are from the U.S., U.K., and Australia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prevention of Genetic Disease and Mental Retardation written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kay E. Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragile X Syndrome written by Kay E. Davies and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book is an up-to-date review of the clinical, epidemiological, and cytogenetic aspects of the fragile X (Martin-Bell) syndrome--the most common genetic cause of mental retardation after Down syndrome. The book includes the latest research findings concerning diagnosis on the basis of the appearance of a fragile site in cultured lymphocytes. It assumes little prior knowledge of the subject, and provides a clearly written, easy-to-understand discussion previously unavailable in a single reference source. The book will be of special interest to molecular biologists, cytogeneticists, medical geneticists, and clinicians and other professionals working with the mentally handicapped.