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Some studies have shown that even moderate alcohol use during pregnancy may cause learning disabilities in children. Drug abuse and cigarette smoking during pregnancy have also been linked to mental retardation.Maternal infections and illnesses su...
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Some studies have shown that even moderate alcohol use during pregnancy may cause learning disabilities in children. Drug abuse and cigarette smoking during pregnancy have also been linked to mental retardation.Maternal infections and such illness...
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Some studies have shown that even moderate alcohol use during pregnancy may cause learning disabilities in children. Drug abuse and cigarette smoking during pregnancy have also been linked to mental retardation.Maternal infections and illnesses su...
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Traumatic brain injury(TBI) is the result of physical trauma to the head causing damage to the brain. This damage can be focal, or restricted to a single area of the brain, or diffuse, affecting more than one region of the brain.
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Breathing, blood flow, and movement are all controlled by the brain. The brain also allows you to think, handle emotions, and make judgments. After an injury, certain parts of the brain (or the links between these parts) may stop working. Some mental or physical skills may be lost. The loss may be short- or long-term. The full effects of a brain injury may not appear for months or even years.
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Controls mental and physical actions of the organism.The brain, with the spinal cord and network of nerves, controls information flow throughout the body, voluntary actions, such as walking, reading, and talking, and involuntary reactions, such as...
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Conditions with a link to the individual''s genetic make-up.Genetic disorders are conditions that can be traced to an individual''s heredity. Many of these disorders are inherited and are governed by the same genetic rules that determine dimples and...
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Detailed information on the different types of genetic diseases that can affect a pregnancy
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Detailed information on the most common congenital and hereditary disorders in children
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A Harvard Medical School physician answers your question about the hereditary elements of addiction.
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Any unusual variation or abnormality in the shape, structure, and/or function of an organ, body part, or tissue is commonly referred to as a birth defect. However, congenital anomaly is the more accurate and preferred term, since birth defect can ...
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Variations within the DNA sequence of a particular gene affect its function, and may cause or predispose an individual a particular disease. Alterations in the genome may increase the frequency of disorder and disease with entire populations.Altho...
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Variations within the DNA sequence of a particular gene affect its function and may cause or predispose an individual a particular disease. Alterations in the genome may increase the frequency of disorder and disease with entire populations.Althou...
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The traditional method used to study an inherited disease is to observe the pattern of its distribution in families through examination of a pedigree, the construction of which begins with the individual first known to have the disease. The pedigr...
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The mother may or may not experience active symptoms of the infection during the pregnancy. Some perinatal infections are sexually transmitted.Transmission of many perinatal infections occurs during childbirth, particularly in cases when invasive ...
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Perinatal infections are those infections affecting the mother during a pregnancy, and may be transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy, during delivery through the birth canal, or after delivery through the breast milk.Perinatal infections may be...
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The mother may or may not experience active symptoms of the infection during the pregnancy. The most serious and most common perinatal infections, and the impact of these diseases on the mother and infant, are discussed below in alphabetical order.
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IUDE; Intrauterine drug exposure; Maternal drug abuse.Maternal substance abuse may consist of any combination of drug, chemical, alcohol, or smoking use during the pregnancy.While in the womb, a fetus grows and develops due to the nourishment from...
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Congenital brain defects are a group of disorders of brain development that are present at birth.Brain development begins shortly after conception and continues throughout the growth of a fetus. A complex genetic program coordinates the formation,...
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A fluid imbalance occurs when the level of body fluids is abnormal.Many illnesses can cause fluid imbalance. A fluid imbalance also can occur after any type of surgery.It is common to retain large amounts of fluid for several days after surgery(ca...
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