http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Up to 10 per cent of the population are affected by specific learning disabilities (SLDs), such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, translating to 2 or 3 pupils in every classroom according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-disabilities-affect-percent-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:00:14 EST news285511379 Taking a long time to get pregnant may be linked to minor neurodevelopmental problems in the child, suggests a small study published online in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-pregnancy-linked-child-neurological.html Pediatrics Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:49:23 EST news283456147 A few years ago, manufacturers of water bottles, food containers, and baby products had a big problem. A key ingredient of the plastics they used to make their merchandise, an organic compound called bisphenol A, had been linked by scientists to diabetes, asthma and cancer and altered prostate and neurological development. The FDA and state legislatures were considering action to restrict BPA's use, and the public was pressuring retailers to remove BPA-containing items from their shelves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bpa-substitute-bisphenol-disrupts-hormone.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:04:03 EST news278096634 Thyroid hormone resistance has been linked to mutations in the IGSF1 gene for the first time—surprising researchers who did not suspect it played a role in the maintenance of normal thyroid function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-localise-genetic-mutations-responsible.html Genetics Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:32:56 EST news277554769 In 1999, Dr. Huda Zoghbi and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine identified the genetic cause of Rett syndrome (a neurological disorder that begins after birth) – MECP2 mutation. Too little of the MeCP2 protein associated with the gene causes the girls whom it affects to regress, gradually losing their speech, the use of their hands and many cognitive functions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mecp2-duplication-affects-immune-brain.html Medical research Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:00:02 EST news273926510 Results from two studies presented today at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle demonstrate the importance of identifying and treating HIV-infected infants within the first year of life both to prevent harm to the immune system and to enable normal neurological development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-nih-funded-benefits-antiretroviral-treatment-hiv-infected.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:26:39 EST news250273568 Scientists, health officials, and manufacturers already know that a chemical preservative found in some products, including cosmetics, is harmful to people and animals in high concentrations, but a new Brown University study in tadpoles reports that it can also interrupt neurological development even in very low concentrations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cosmetic-chemical-hinders-brain-tadpoles.html Neuroscience Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:22:44 EST news245427753 In one of the largest studies of its kind to date, researchers have found that babies born to mothers who smoke while pregnant face substantial delays in early neurological development, and the effects may be stronger than researchers had previously thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-effects-prenatal-infant-neurodevelopment-worse.html Health Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:18:29 EST news233227089 A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have uncovered a novel mechanism regulating gene expression and transcription linked to Spinocerebellar ataxia 7, an inherited neurological disorder. The discovery promises to have broad ramifications, suggesting that abundant non-coding transcripts of ribonucleic acid (RNA) may be key players in neurological development and function, and could be powerful targets for future clinical therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-non-coding-rna-role-inherited-neurological.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:36:33 EST news227882168 By shedding new light on how cells migrate in the developing brain, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also may have found a new mechanism by which other types of cells, including cancer cells, travel within the body. The findings by Jonathan Cooper, Ph.D., member and director of the Hutchinson Center's Basic Sciences Division, and Yves Jossin, Ph.D., a research fellow in Cooper's laboratory, published online April 24 in Nature Neuroscience, could lead to a better understanding of neurological development and, possibly, cancer metastasis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-brain-cell-migration-insight-cancer.html Neuroscience Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:44:20 EST news222871437