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Impaired Brain Plasticity Linked To Angelman Syndrome Learning Deficits Science Daily Sun, 10 May 2009 13:24 PM PDT How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers now believe they have the answer: impaired brain plasticity. UK & World News: Brain-ops man to jog length of UK icNewcastle - Sunday Sun Sun, 10 May 2009 12:59 PM PDT A businessman who has had 29 life-saving brain operations has set a start date to jog the length of the UK. Oregon Researchers Study Brain At Rest KVEW Kennewick Sun, 10 May 2009 12:57 PM PDT PORTLAND -- Oregon researchers are using brain scans to seek new ways of diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other mental health problems. Preclinical work shows how one gene causes severe mental retardation EurekAlert! Sun, 10 May 2009 10:18 AM PDT ( Duke University Medical Center ) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina have discovered in mice how a single disrupted gene can cause a form of severe mental retardation known as Angelman syndrome. In a Nature Neuroscience study, they found that the gene is needed so that neurons in the brain can form and adjust their connections to other neurons for ... UNC-Duke study: Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits EurekAlert! Sun, 10 May 2009 10:18 AM PDT ( University of North Carolina School of Medicine ) How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Duke University now believe they have the answer: impaired brain plasticity.

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