Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay

Genetic and Epigenetic Factors
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-517432-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Moyra

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pädiatrie, Neonatologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 overgrowth

- 5: Mental retardation associated with other neurological defects

- 6: Mental retardation that develops after a period of normal cognition

- 7: Nonsyndromic mental retardation, autism and language deficits

- 8: Genomics, functional genomics and epigenetics: relevance to mental retardation

- 9: Establishing a diagnosis and determining etiology in developmental delay and mental retardation

- 10: Epilogue: the value of genetic diagnosis - applying knowledge about etiology to prevention and treatment

Über Autor(innen)

Moyra Smith, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, USA