Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay by Moyra Smith

Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay 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.

This book is a little gem..The remit is extensive and the book is compact. It will therefore be a useful summary of current understanding to be used as a reference and would be particularly helpful for medical undergraduates invovled in a vertically constructed curriculum or for pediatricians, whether in training or maintaining their CPD. It is not just a book for someone who wants to know the answer, but for someone who wants to know why the answer is as it is and rejoices in the explanation.--Archives of Disease in Childhood This book is a little gem...The remit is extensive and the book is compact. It will therefore be a useful summary of current understanding to be used as a reference and would be particularly helpful for medical undergraduates invovled in a vertically constructed curriculum or for pediatricians, whether in training or maintaining their CPD. It is not just a book for someone who wants to know the answer, but for someone who wants to know why the answer is as it is and rejoices in the explanation.--Archives of Disease in Childhood

Moyra Smith is Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine. A leading scholar in her field, she has served as an editor of McKusick's classic Red Book, Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Smith's monographs in the Oxford Series on Human Genetics include Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay: Genetic and Epigenetic Factors (2005), Translational Research in Genetics and Genomics (2008), and Phenotypic Variation: Exploration and Functional Genomics (2011).

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ISBN 13	9780195174328
ISBN 10	0195174321
Title	Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay
Author	Moyra Smith
Series	Oxford Monographs On Medical Genetics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2005-12-01
Number of pages	344
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