Gene Mutation Tied to Majority of Cases of Mental Retardation
Finding might lead to better diagnosis and drug treatments, study says WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children who have the most common form of mental retardation -- called nonsyndromic mental retardation -- appear to have a genetic mutation that may contribute to the condition,...Researchers Reverse Mental Retardation Symptoms in Mice
Researchers have successfully reversed the symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice for the first time. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including Mansuo L. Hayashi and Susumu Tonegawa at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. As part of the ...New Findings in Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
Researchers in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine have done crucial progress in understanding Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), laying the groundwork for possible new treatments for Fragile X syndrome(FXS). Fragile X synd...Severe Mental Retardation Gene Mutation Identified
Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis,// according to a study. Investigators F. Lucy Raymond, University of Cambridge and Patrick S. Tarpey Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK des...Mental retardation linked to brain protein
The journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, recently published a study by researchers from Oregon Health and Science University, which said that a brain protein called WAVE-1 may play a key role in mental retardation. WAVE-1 is a protein that is found throughout the brain and plays...Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation
According to American scientists, women who took an epilepsy drug during their pregnancy are at greater risk of having children with lower IQ. In question is the drug valproate (already at the center of a British court action after claims that it has damaged children). Valproate seems to double ...Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation
According to American scientists, women who took an epilepsy drug during their pregnancy are at greater risk of having children// with lower IQ. In question is the drug valproate (already at the center of a British court action after claims that it has damaged children). Valproate seems to double...Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation
Studying mutations that give rise to a rare genetic disease, genetics researchers have identified a novel biological pathway //that may have a broader role during human development, potentially in cases of mental retardation and autism. An international team of researchers identified two gen...Genetics Of Mental Retardation
A new study published online on August 13 in Nature Genetics by researchers at the University of Washington and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute says that there// are many more causes of mental retardation. An example is the retardation caused by a large deletion in six genes on chromosome 17. T...In Rare Disorder, a Familiar Protein Disrupts Gene Function
...most children with the condition live into adulthood. CdLS has a wide range of severity, with the mildest form manifesting as apparent isolated mental retardation and/or autism. Krantz and colleagues investigated cohesin, a protein complex consisting of at least four proteins that form a ring that encircles...Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference
..., the countries are home to more than 400 million people at risk of meningitis, which kills one in 10 and leaves many others with hearing loss, mental retardation and epilepsy. Until now, public health officials have been offering a polysaccharide vaccine whenever epidemics hit, but it provides only limited...One Shot of Gene Therapy Spreads Through Brain in Animal Study
...ogenetic disease mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (MPS VII). In people, MPS VII, also called Sly syndrome, is a rare, multisystem disease causing mental retardation and death in childhood or early adulthood. Sly syndrome is one of a class of some 60 disorders called lysosomal storage diseases that collectively ca...Positive Kuvan(TM) Pivotal Phase 3 Trial Results Published in The Lancet
...Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood and becomes toxic to the brain, resulting in a variety of complications including severe mental retardation and brain damage, mental illness, seizures, tremors, and limited cognitive ability. As a result of newborn screening efforts implemented in the 1960s ...Fragile X, Down Syndromes Linked to Faulty Brain Communication, Stanford Researcher Finds
...Hanson, PhD, studied Fragile X syndrome, which is a leading cause of mental retardation in this country. Affected people tend to have learning disabilities, distin...believe that these reduced-complexity networks are the basis for the mental retardation that occurs with both syndromes," Madison said. If so, the problem is roo...Researchers Discover Gene For Rare Skin Disorder
...NIH institute that provided funding for the Mental retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at ...enetics and the senior author of the paper. Mental retardation is seen in about fifteen percent of patients with ...ood, said Ljubisa Vitkovic, M.D., of NICHDs Mental retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch. But they al...Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity, CSHL team finds
Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated the mechanism by which a signaling protein found throughout the brain controls the maturation and strength of excitatory synapses, the tiny gaps across which the majority of neurons communi...Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder
UCLA researchers discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction inflicted by a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Because half of TSC patients also suffer from autism, the findings offer new hope for addressing learning disorders due to autism. Nature ...Preclinical work shows how one gene causes severe mental retardation
Durham, N.C., and Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina have discovered in mice how a single disrupted gene can cause a form of severe mental retardation known as Angelman syndrome. In a study published in the journal Nature N...Rare genetic disorder gives clues to autism, epilepsy, mental retardation
A rare genetic disorder called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is yielding insight into a possible cause of some neurodevelopmental disorders: structural abnormalities in neurons, or brain cells. Researchers in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Children's Hospital Boston, led by Mustafa Sahin...Severe mental retardation gene mutation identified
Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis, according to an article to be published electronically on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Investigators F. Luc...Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns
...the brains of newborns suffering from oxygen and blood flow deprivation stops a type of brain damage that is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and death, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Reporting their results in the Journal of Neuroscience , the...Measuring intellectual disability
...specific and quantitative means of measuring levels of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) protein (FMRP), which is mutated in fragile X syndrome. The relat...ort by Iwahashi et al, "A quantitative ELISA assay for the fragile X mental retardation 1 protein," appears in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Molecular Dia...Powerful nutrient cocktail can put kids with Crohn's into remission
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...ing cause of newborn death and babies who survive an early birth often face the risk of lifetime health challenges, such as breathing problems, mental retardation and others. Even babies born just a few weeks too soon (34-36 weeks gestation, also known as late preterm birth) have higher rates of death and disabi...Regulation of cell proliferation by the OGF-OGFr axis is dependent on nuclear localization signals
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Leuven, Belgium − 2 to 3 children in 100 are born with a mental handicap. This can be caused by a genetic defect, but in 80% of the cases scientists do not know which genes are responsible. Now, VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in collaboration with an Austral...Kuvan Receives Priority Review Status From Health Canada
...Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood and becomes toxic to the brain, resulting in a variety of complications including severe mental retardation and brain damage, mental illness, seizures, tremors, and limited cognitive ability. As a result of newborn screening efforts implemented in the 1960s ...International science consortium publishes analysis of domestic cattle genome sequence
...ast two locations in a genome. Segmental duplications in the human genome are associated with a variety of human disorders, including a form of mental retardation and other neurological and birth defects. In the domestic cattle genome, researchers found that some of these chromosomal rearrangements affect gen...BioMarin Receives Notice of Allowance for Once Daily Dosing Patent for Kuvan
...Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood and becomes toxic to the brain, resulting in a variety of complications including severe mental retardation and brain damage, mental illness, seizures, tremors, and limited cognitive ability. As a result of newborn screening efforts implemented in the 1960s ...Kuvan Receives Marketing Approval in the European Union
...Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood and becomes toxic to the brain, resulting in a variety of complications including severe mental retardation and brain damage, mental illness, seizures, tremors, and limited cognitive ability. As a result of newborn screening efforts implemented in the 1960s ...Agent in red wine found to keep hearts young
... In short, a glass of wine or food or supplements that contain even small doses of resveratrol are likely to represent "a robust intervention in the retardation of cardiac aging," the authors note. That finding may also explain the remarkable heart health of people who live in some regions of France where d...Synchrotron radiation illuminates how babies' protective bubble bursts
... When the protective sac raptures during labour this is when the mothers waters burst; if premature rupture occurs it can result in death or mental retardation of the child. Currently premature birth is increasing and 40% are attributed to the early rupture of amniotic membranes. Thus, a better understanding ...Netsmart Technologies Customer in Pennsylvania Recognized for Achieving Data Benchmarking Milestones
... Thomas, CPA, chief fiscal officer for Dickinson Mental Health, which is located in Ridgway, Pa. and provides a wide range of mental health and mental retardation related services to residents of Elk, Cameron, Potter and McKean counties. In its second year, the PCPA Benchmarking Initiative encompasses a total o...Exclusive Rights to Kuvan(TM) Data Licensed to Asubio Pharma in Japan
...Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood and becomes toxic to the brain, resulting in a variety of complications including severe mental retardation and brain damage, mental illness, seizures, tremors, and limited cognitive ability. As a result of newborn screening efforts implemented in the 1960s ...NIH grants $750,000 to develop device to determine temperature of neonate's brain
...rain damage from oxygen-deprivation during birth. About half of the infants born with the condition will die or suffer severe handicaps such as mental retardation or cerebral palsy. Historically, doctors tended to keep newborns warm, at incubator-like temperatures, and treated the hypoxic infants with medicin...