Brain - Growth & development
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Angelman syndrome: current understanding and research prospects.

30 Oct 2009 Angelman syndrome is a neurogenetic disorder characterized by developmental delay, severe intellectual disability, absent speech, exuberant behavior with happy demeanor, motor impairment, and epilepsy, due to deficient UBE3A gene expression that may ... Read more...

Immune proteins in brain development and synaptic plasticity.

13 Oct 2009 Many proteins first identified in the immune system are also expressed in the developing and adult nervous system. Unexpectedly, recent studies reveal that a number of these proteins, in addition to their immunological roles, are essential for the ... Read more...

Cytokines and CNS development.

13 Oct 2009 Cytokines are pleotrophic proteins that coordinate the host response to infection as well as mediate normal, ongoing signaling between cells of nonimmune tissues, including the nervous system. As a consequence of this dual role, cytokines induced in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain - Growth & development'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Angelman syndrome: current understanding and research prospects. 30 Oct 2009
• Immune proteins in brain development and synaptic plasticity. 13 Oct 2009
• Cytokines and CNS development. 13 Oct 2009
• Understanding the role of DISC1 in psychiatric disease and during normal development. 12 Oct 2009
• The development of developmental neuroscience. 12 Oct 2009
• Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase and mental retardation. 29 Sep 2009
• Imaging biomarkers of outcome in the developing preterm brain. 28 Sep 2009
• How DISC1 regulates postnatal brain development: girdin gets in on the AKT. 22 Sep 2009
• Laminin alters fyn regulatory mechanisms and promotes oligodendrocyte development. 21 Sep 2009
• Heterogeneity in subcortical brain development: A structural magnetic resonance imaging study of brain maturation from 8 to 30 years. 21 Sep 2009
• Autism spectrum disorders following in utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs. 20 Sep 2009
• Partial primary deficiency of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I activity associated with IGF1 mutation demonstrates its critical role in growth and brain development. 20 Sep 2009
• Neurophysiologic assessment of brain maturation after an 8-week trial of skin-to-skin contact on preterm infants. 15 Sep 2009
• Lineage-specific cell death in postembryonic brain development of Drosophila. 15 Sep 2009
• Astrocyte function and role in motor neuron disease: a future therapeutic target? 30 Aug 2009
• Register data suggest lower intelligence in men born the year after flu pandemic. 30 Aug 2009
• Environmental factors, brain development, and intelligence in adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Thyroid function: Thyroid hormones, iodine and the brain-an important concern. 30 Aug 2009
• The maturation of incentive processing and cognitive control. 30 Aug 2009
• Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Brain'

Definition: The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.

Descriptor UI: D001921

Alternative terms: Brain; Brains; Encephalon; Encephalons;

Related Mesh Headings: Cerebral Decortication; Psychosurgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; ultrastructure; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211;

Online Note: pre-explosion = BRAIN (PX)

History Note: /enzymology was BRAIN ENZYMOLOGY 1964-65; /physiology was BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY 1965; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY was heading 1964-65

Technical Notes: general; /blood supply: consider also CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; /cytol: do not routinely convert to NEURONS; /surg: consider specific neurosurgical procedures in Category E4; inflammation = ENCEPHALITIS & its specifics; infarct = CEREBRAL INFARCTION; malacia = ENCEPHALOMALACIA; brain-isolated, encéphale isolé, cerveau isolé: index DECEREBRATE STATE