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Filter by:Adults with intellectual disabilities have great difficulty in adapting to social situations and relationships. Cognitive impairment associated with intellectual disability are important factors to understand their difficulties in processing social information. In the field of recognition of facial emotions in particular, basic cognitive processes such as visuospatial and attentional functions, are heavily involved. Cognitive remediation is a management tool widely used by practitioners to help patients who experience cognitive difficulties. Currently, no program can meet specific and validated the problems are adults with intellectual disabilities manner in their daily functioning
Hepatic encephalopathy is a syndrome occurs in patients with liver cirrhosis and is defined as neuropsychiatric abnormalities in patients with liver impairment, characterized by personality changes, intellectual impairment, and an impaired level of consciousness. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a necessary cofactor of the mitochondrial metabolism. It provides a High antioxidant and protective effects on age-related morbidities such as hypertension, heart failure and neurodegenerative diseases and hepatoprotective effects in drug related hepatic impairment. Meclofenoxate is a cholinergic nootropic drug used clinically to improve memory, mental function and general cognition.
This study is a controlled trial of metformin in individuals with fragile X syndrome between the ages of 6 and 35 years. Participants will be randomized in a double-blind design to either drug or placebo and will attend three visits to the study site in a 4-month period for a series of tests. The primary objectives are to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy of metformin in the treatment of language deficits, behavior problems, and obesity/excessive appetite in individuals with fragile X syndrome.
This study evaluates the types of dental procedures performed in general anaesthesia for adult persons with intellectual disability, as well as factors affecting the decision to perform the dental treatment in general anaesthesia, factors contributing to tooth loss and possibilities to perform oral rehabilitation procedures
The research aims to verify the effects of the Mindfulness Based Health Promotion (PSBM) program on the quality of life of mothers of person with intellectual disability. Method: A randomized, controlled study with pre-post intervention measures and a follow-up measurement will be performed after six months of the end of the intervention. Sample: It will be composed of mothers of the 209 attended with moderate intellectual disability, adolescents and adults of the Service of Socioeducation of the Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAE) of São Paulo, excluding those who have any psychiatric problem in the acute phase and minors, or who have regular practice of mindfulness or meditation in the last 6 months.
FOXP1, also known as Forkhead-box Protein P1, is a transcription factor protein belonging to the FOX gene family. Disruptions in the FOXP1 gene cause a phenotype characterized by global developmental delay, speech deficits, mild dysmorphic features, and traits of autism spectrum disorder. This study seeks to characterize FOXP1-related neurodevelopmental disorders using a number of genetic, medical and neuropsychological measures.
DDX3X syndrome is a genetic cause of intellectual disability and other neurologic features including, in some cases, autism. Variants in the DDX3X gene are thought to account for 1-3% of unexplained intellectual disability in females, making it one of the more common causes of intellectual disability.This study seeks to characterize DDX3X-related neurodevelopmental disorders using a number of genetic, medical and neuropsychological measures.
The aim of this study is to evaluate performances of a NIPT test based onto the study of the maternal blood to search known genetic mutations already detected in the family and potentially inherited by the fetus. This test will avoid an invasive prenatal diagnosis in those families with a known genetic risk. The performance of this test will be evaluated in terms of sensitivity and specificity with an adapted statistic model. Secondary objectives of the protocol are - To adapt NIPT to small DNA quantity (5-50 ng) - To adapt bioinformatics pipeline to low rate of mosaicism - To develop a tool to quantify the fetal fraction - To evaluate the robustness of the method This test is based onto capture and high throw put sequencing adapted to cell free plasmatic DNA of pregnant women in order to detect point mutation present in her fetus. This approach has been previously described for others clinical applications such as liquid biopsy in cancers but not for NIPT analysis.
Background Genetic factors play a major role in intellectual disability (ID) but the underlying cause is not determined in many cases. This proposal is the continuation of the previous interregional project HUGODIMS, the aim of which was to perform whole exome sequencing (WES) in 69 thoroughly selected simplex ID parent-child trios. Thanks to HUGODIMS consortium, the underlying genetic cause of ID was determined or highly suspected in 48 cases (69.5%) and 7 novel ID genes were identified. Hypothesis Investigators hypothesize that an approach combining genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and morphological analyses performed on induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neural cells would improve diagnosis of ID. The current proposal is therefore a proof-of concept project aiming at assessing the relevance and effectiveness of this multi-omics approach. Aims and Methods Ten individuals with ID recruited through HUGODIMS, in whom WES have failed to identify pathogenic variants will be included. The workflow is the following: 1. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) (Nantes) of these 10 negative trios. 2. Bio-informatics analyses 3. In 3 WGS negative cases, 3 positive controls bearing distinct mutations in CAMK2a (a novel ID gene identified thanks to HUGODIMS), and 3 healthy negative controls: 1. Derivation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neural progenitors (iPSC core facility at Nantes) 2. Targeted and non-targeted metabolomics analyses performed on iPSC-derived neuronal cells (Angers) 3. RNA sequencing performed on the 9 cell lines (Rennes) 4. Morphological analyses of differentiated neuronal cell lines derived from 3 affected individuals and 3 positive controls bearing CMK2a mutations (Tours) 5. Integration and validation of data from multi-omics and morphological approaches Expected results and impact Investigatrors expect that this approach combining multi-omics and iPSC will help to improve diagnosis and understanding of genetic ID of unknown cause
With Leap Motion Controller, virtual reality exercises have been implemented more often since 2014, and this technology has benefited more from upper extremity rehabilitation In literature, there are no publications investigating the effectiveness of virtual reality applications on upper extremity functions in cases of mental retardation with Leap Motion. We think that virtual reality applications with Leap Motion are effective in fine motor skills and grip strength in cases of mental retardation. The purpose of our work; To Investigation of the Effectiveness of Video Based Games on Upper Extremity Functions in Mild Mental Retardation Diagnosed Cases