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Oxford University Press Inc Mental Retardation And Developmental Delay: Genetic And Epigenetic Factors by Moyra Smith
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.