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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813355803321

Autore

Smith Moyra

Titolo

Mental retardation and developmental delay : genetic and epigenetic factors / / Moyra Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-770759-9

1-280-84391-8

0-19-803885-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

ArfinStuart M

LottIra T

Disciplina

616.8588042

Soggetti

Intellectual disability - Etiology

Intellectual disability - Genetic aspects

Developmental disabilities - Etiology

Developmental disabilities - Genetic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.