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

• Autore: Smith Moyra
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8588042
• Soggetto topico: Intellectual disability - Etiology; Intellectual disability - Genetic aspects; Developmental disabilities - Etiology; Developmental disabilities - Genetic aspects
• Altri autori: ArfinStuart M LottIra T
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental retardation and developmental delay
• ISBN: 0-19-770759-9; 1-280-84391-8; 0-19-803885-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813355803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.