Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay - Genetic and Epigenetic Factors

Klappentext This book makes readily available current knowledge on the subject of mental retardation and developmental delay 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. Chapters cover normal and abnormal brain structure, neurogenesis, and signal transduction before delving into a discussion of both the environmental factors thatmay lead to neurocognitive deficits and the cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular defects specifically associated with mental retardation. The text concludes with a clinically practical discussion of carrier detection, presymptomatic diagnosis, and treatment of various geneticdiseases. Zusammenfassung Features information on the subject of mental retardation and developmental delay, and applies it to clinical medicine, providing information useful to neurologists, geneticists, physicians, and pediatricians. Chapters cover normal and abnormal brain structure, neurogenesis, and signal transduction.

Product details

• Authors: Moyra Smith, Moyra (Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780195174328
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517432-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics; Oxford Monographs of Medical Genetics; Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics; Oxford Monographs of Medical Genetics; Oxford Monographs on Medical G
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Psychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, Psychology, MEDICAL / Genetics