What controls stickiness of 'smart' chromosomal glue
...lated to prevent problems such as miscarriages and mental retardation. The new work reveals how gluelike pro...e understanding of the origins of miscarriages and mental retardation due to mis-segregation of chromosomes. "We first need to understand the key regulatory ......tose person suddenly awakening with no physical or mental problems after many years in coma and portraying the comatose person as a "Sleeping Beauty" with no loss of muscle tone or feeding tubes and with perfect grooming and tanned complexions. All but one of the movies showed the comatose person only with ...ACS weekly press package April 24th, 2006
...lop, leading to blindness, lack of muscle control, mental retardation and eventually to premature death. Ron Viola and colleagues at the University of Toledo are reporting the isolation and purification of this enzyme in the May 9 issue of Biochemistry . They now have begun to unravel how it function...New understanding of parasite cell structures may provide treatments for serious tropical diseases
...mptoms may include unusual facial characteristics, mental retardation, seizures and an inability to suck and/or swallow. Jaundice and gastrointestinal bleeding may also occur." The new research will open areas for further investigation. "Before this work in trypanosomes, there was no evidence that we could ...Lost in thought: Brain research
...anning the brains of volunteers performing various mental tasks. The results of their study, which were published recently in the journal Neuron, were unanticipated: When subjects were given outwardly-focused tasks that demanded their full attention, areas of the brain that relate to the self were not only ...Is brain size linked to two common gene variants?
...rocephaly, a disease causing smaller head size and mental retardation. Specific normal variants of the MCPH1 and ASPM genes have attracted scientific attention, because they are now widespread in some human populations -- despite evidence that these variants first arose only 5,000 to 37,000 years ago. This ...Lead exposure leads to brain cell loss and damage years later
...other areas, such as attention, aggression, or any mental disorders, have gotten less attention. Exposure to inorganic lead, like that found in paint, remains an important public health problem. And those of us who grew up before the late 1970s still carry high lead levels in our bodies. We need more studie...Queensland scientists identify molecule that links both sides of the brain
...uffer from epilepsy, and experience some degree of mental retardation. "Our study is the first to identify ...for development of treatments for several forms of mental impairment and epilepsy. A QBI-led scientific paper outlining functions of the Ryk receptor molecul...Light-to-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure can lead to cognitive deficits 10 years later
...iences at the University of Washington. "However, mental retardation only characterizes a minority of patients with FAS and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND). There are a number of domains of cognitive functioning that can be impaired even in the face of a relatively normal IQ, including ...Fear circuit flares as bipolar youth misread faces
... as is thought to occur in schizophrenia and other mental illnesses." Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies have shown that, unlike in adults with the illness, the amygdala is consistently smaller in bipolar children than in healthy age-mates. Also, the NIMH researchers had found earlier that bipolar chi...Biological diversity and human health; Rapid autopsy program; Snake bites and more
...n. These effects could in turn relieve symptoms of mental illness. For example, antipsychotic drugs, they say, induce indifference and sedation, which could in the short term help to relieve the symptoms of acute psychosis (such as hearing voices, which is very disturbing to patients). Similarly, the se...Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors
...iseases, including puzzling disorders that lead to mental retardation. "For years, many children who have mu...nes in Prader-Willi syndrome may cause obesity and mental retardation. To seek out miniscule rearrangements in chromosomes, the Children's Hospital team emplo...Long-term study shows brain function not impaired by tight diabetes control and hypoglycemia
... patients don't have to worry about damaging their mental abilities as they work to significantly decrease their risks of developing diabetic retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy and cardiovascular disease." Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes accounts for between 5 and 10 percent (between 700 thousand and ...New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles
...in may also underlie autism spectrum disorders and mental retardation. The multitasking members of the FGF growth factor family regulate blood vessel formation, wound repair, lung maturation, and development of skeletal muscle, blood and bone marrow cells. The Salk study adds on more job to an already long ...How IVF could be causing genetic errors in embryos
...udo. Angelman syndrome is characterised by severe mental retardation, speech impairment, balance disorder and a happy, excitable demeanour; it occurs in about one in 10,000 to 30,000 of the population. Beckwith Wiedeman syndrome is characterised by overgrowth, with an abnormally large tongue, umbilical her...Study contradicts USA warning that an antidepressant can cause congenital abnormalities
...ecisions to terminate pregnancies, but also on the mental and physical well-being of mothers, through not treating their depression or stopping their medication abruptly. "Depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and premenstrual stress are common disorders during child-bearing years and can be tr...Studies suggest new brain protein may help in treating schizophrenia, insomnia and anxiety
...izophrenia in an established animal model for this mental illness that affects some 2 million Americans. An...s of NPS and its receptor might be associated with mental disorders and developing animal models that lack parts of the NPS system in order to better understa...Meconium: Baby's first stool may provide clues to fetal alcohol exposure
...ticularly brain development. This could result in mental retardation." "This is an important report," said Laposata. "The measurements of the FAEEs are exceedingly well done. However, the test is only able to identify about one quarter of the mothers who ingest alcohol during pregnancy." He suggested tha...DDT in mothers linked to developmental delays in children, UC Berkeley study finds
...hild neurodevelopment that is, the development of mental and physical skills. At a time when health authori..., DDE, in 360 pregnant women. Then they tested the mental and physical skills of the women's babies at six, 12 and 24 months using tests known as the Bayley S...Cause of neuronal death in Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease could be surprisingly simple
...of particular genes leads to such abnormalities as mental retardation. In their papers, Salehi and colleagues and Tessarollo and colleagues studied mice genetically engineered to mimic the trisomy seen in human Down's syndrome. Their aim was to discover the machinery by which this trisomy ultimately causes ...