Infl uence of selenium deficiency on neural tube defects

In fl uence of selenium de fi ciency on neural tube defects

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Periconceptional Folate Deficiency and Implications in Neural Tube Defects

Nutritional deficiencies are preventable etiological and epigenetic factors causing congenital abnormalities, first cause of infant mortality. Folate deficiency has a well-established teratogenic effect, leading to an increasing risk of neural tube defects. This paper highlights the most recent medical literature about folate deficiency, be it maternal or paternal. It then focuses on associated...

The Infl uence of Stressors on the Development of Psychopathology

M. Lewis and K.D. Rudolph (eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_11, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Stressful life experiences represent the most well-established environmental predictor of psychopathology across the life-span. Research focused on children and adolescents, in particular, has documented a predictive relation between stre...

Neural tube defects

lower limbs and other major organ malformations.4 Complex dysraphic states due to aberrant integration of the notochord include split cord malformation (SCM) or diastematomyelia: a congenital spinal anomaly in which there is longitudinal splitting of the spinal cord.5,6 Causes of NTDs are multifactorial and defects in several different genes can underlie the genetic basis of this disease.1 Howe...

Neural-tube defects.