Genetics
Team first to map autism-risk genes by function
Pity the poor autism researcher. Recent studies have linked hundreds of gene mutations scattered throughout the brain to increased autism risk. Where do you start?
Nov 21, 2013
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News tagged with intellectual development
Genetics
Gene linked to common intellectual disability
(Medical Xpress)—University of Adelaide researchers have taken a step forward in unravelling the causes of a commonly inherited intellectual disability, finding that a genetic mutation leads to a reduction in certain proteins ...
Nov 13, 2013
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Health
Cognitive skills of kids born to teen mums don't lag behind those of other kids
Contrary to popular belief, the intellectual development of children born to teen mums does not lag behind that of children born to mums in their 20s and 30s, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in ...
Oct 16, 2013
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify key brain systems affected by fragile X syndrome
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified several large-scale neural systems in the brain that appear to be impaired by fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited ...
Sep 26, 2013
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Neuroscience
Building the best brain: Researchers show how brain cell connections get cemented early in life
When we're born, our brains aren't very organized. Every brain cell talks to lots of other nearby cells, sending and receiving signals across connections called synapses.
Sep 20, 2013
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Medical research
Intellectual disability linked to nerve cells that lose their 'antennae'
(Medical Xpress)—An odd and little-known feature of nerve cells may be linked to several forms of inherited intellectual disability, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned.
Aug 30, 2013
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Genetics
New genetic risk factor found for schizophrenia
Researchers at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health have identified a large duplication on chromosome 7q11.23 as a new risk factor for schizophrenia. (7q11.23 refers to the specific location of the duplicated region ...
Aug 1, 2013
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Neuroscience
Study shows a solitary mutation can destroy critical 'window' of early brain development
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown in animal models that brain damage caused by the loss of a single copy of a gene during very early childhood development can cause a lifetime ...
Jun 21, 2013
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Neuroscience
Defects in brain cell migration linked to mental retardation
(Medical Xpress)—A rare, inherited form of mental retardation has led scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to three important "travel agents" at work in the developing brain.
Jun 21, 2013
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Neuroscience
Down syndrome neurons grown from stem cells show signature problems
Down syndrome, the most common genetic form of intellectual disability, results from an extra copy of one chromosome. Although people with Down syndrome experience intellectual difficulties and other problems, scientists ...
May 27, 2013
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