For example, the center's
brain malformation study group has identified two genes associated with abnormalities of the corpus callosum, conditions in which the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres is missing or incomplete.
Not exact matches
A recent
study found that children of depressed mothers treated with a certain group of antidepressants during pregnancy were more likely to develop Chiari type 1
brain malformations than were children of mothers with no exposure to those antidepressants.
However, a 2014
study done on over 20,000 women found links between marijuana and a rare
brain malformation called anencephaly.
A new
study, published online in Pediatric Neurology, evaluated children with TSC, which causes
malformations and tumors in the
brain and other vital organs and has a high prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Future
studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and
malformations of
brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age - related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.
October 27, 2011 Drug treatment shows promise for
brain blood vessel abnormality A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous
malformation — a
brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke — for the first time in a new
study.
Syrinx Location in Dogs with Chiari - like
Malformation having
Brain and Whole Spine MRI Dewey CW, Loughin CA, Marino DJ MRI
studies of dogs thought to have CLM have included mainly the skull and neck, but does the syrinx exists further down the spinal cord?