Mental retardation and developmental delay : genetic and epigenetic factors

Mental retardation and developmental delay : genetic and epigenetic factors /

Introduction. 1. Science, Society, and Mental Retardation, A History. 2. Neurogenesis, Neuronal Migration, Maturation, and Function: Insights into Learning and Memory. 3. Structural Brain Anomalies and Neural Tube Defects. 4. Mental Retardation Associated with Dysmorphology, Growth Retardation, or O...

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Main Author: Smith, Moyra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006
Series:Oxford monographs on medical genetics.
Subjects:
Intellectual disability > Etiology.
Intellectual disability > Genetic aspects.
Developmental disabilities > Etiology.
Developmental disabilities > Genetic aspects.
Children.
Infants.
Intellectual Disability > genetics
Child
Infant
Developmental Disabilities > etiology
Developmental Disabilities > genetics
Intellectual Disability > etiology
children (people by age group)
infants.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Science, society, and mental retardation: a history
  • Neurogenesis, neuronal migration, maturation, and function: insights into learning and memory
  • Structural brain anomalies and neural tube defects
  • Mental retardation associated with dysmorphology, growth retardation, or overgrowth
  • Mental retardation associated with other neurological defects
  • Mental retardation that develops after a period of normal cognition
  • Non-syndromic mental retardation, autism, and language deficits
  • Genomics, functional genomics, and epigenetics
  • Establishing a diagnosis and determining etiology
  • The value of genetic diagnosis: applying knowledge about etiology to prevention and treatment
  • Epilogue: The value of genetic diagnosis
  • Applying knowledge about etiology to prevention and treatment.

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