Mental retardation and developmental delay : genetic and epigenetic factors

Mental retardation and developmental delay genetic and epigenetic factors

Moyra Smith 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 paediatricians as they search for the causes of mental handicap.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Moyra (-)
Other Authors: Arfin, Stuart M., Lott, Ira T.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press 2006.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Intellectual disability > Etiology.
Intellectual disability > Genetic aspects.
Developmental disabilities > Etiology.
Developmental disabilities > Genetic aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798514806719
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.

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