Arteriovenous Malformations

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Mental Health

Mental health, although not being as obvious as physical health, is very important, causing great unhappiness to those affected, causing additional physical health problems and costing the economy m...

Mental sleep disorders

Genetic mutation for mental retardation found in Amish community

A genetic mutation linked to mental retardation has been identified in an Amish community in the USA. It is the first time that a mutation on the HERC2 gene has been associated with impaired mental de...

Lead exposure can cause mental retardation in children living near sites

Children living near toxic waste sites in lower and middle income countries such as India, Philippines and Indonesia may experience higher blood lead levels, resulting in a loss of IQ points and a hig...

Pregnancy May Raise Risk of Cerebral Bleeding in Some Women

TUESDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women are at higher risk of bleeding in the brain from vessel abnormalities known as arteriovenous malformations, a new study indicates. Arteriovenous ma...

[Comment] Antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy and cognitive outcomes

Women with epilepsy are routinely advised to continue antiepileptic-drug treatment throughout pregnancy, based on the assumption that the maternal and fetal benefits of treatment in terms of maternal...

Drug to Treat Mental Disorder Shows Promise

An experimental drug designed to treat a genetic condition that is the most common cause of inherited mental retardation helped patients develop better social skills.

Phenotypic variant of Brachydactyly-mental retardation syndrome in a family with an inherited interstitial 2q37.3 microdeletion including HDAC4

Molecular characterization of an X(p21.2;q28) chromosomal inversion in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient with mental retardation reveals a novel long non-coding gene on Xq28

Clinical Trial Yields Positive Results for New Prenatal Test

A new technique surpassed standard testing in detecting chromosomal abnormalities that can cause problems like autism or mental retardation.

Reflections on a lifetime in human services and mental retardation.

Abstract The author, a life member of the American Association on Mental Retardation, has reflected on over 30 years of primary engagement in mental retardation and inventoried what he believes are...

Children with Usher syndrome: mental and behavioral disorders.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Mental and behavioral disorders among adults with Usher syndrome have been discussed and reported in some case studies but no research has been reported on children with Usher sy...

Dendritic spine abnormalities in mental retardation.

Abnormalities in dendritic spine morphologies are often associated with mental retardation. Since dendritic spines are thought to represent a morphological correlate of neuronal plasticity, altered sp...

Subtelomeric Microduplications in Three Sisters with Moderate Mental Retardation.

Copy number changes of subtelomeric regions are a common cause of mental retardation, occurring in approximately 5% of mentally retarded patients. New molecular techniques allow the identification of...

A unique combination of 17pter trisomy and 21qter monosomy in a boy with developmental delay, severe intellectual disability, growth retardation and dysmorphisms.

Microduplication at 17p13.3 and microdeletion at 21q22 are both rare chromosomal aberrations. The presence of both genomic imbalances in one patient has not been previously reported in literature. In...