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Reference and Representation in Down's Syndrome
… maintain coherent discourse by individuals with Down's syndrome. To maintain coherent discourse both linguistic and non-linguistic information must be integrated and maintained in a mental representation of current discourse. The ability of children with Down's syndrome to use such a mental …
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Karyotypes and Case Studies of 17 Down's Syndrome Individuals
… Sixteen patients suspected of having mosaic Downs syndrome and one suspected of having a translocation Down's syndrome were studied by chromosome analysis at Woodward State Hospital, Woodward, Iowa during June and July of 1973. Procedure. A cytogenetic analysis was made of chromosomes …
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Teachers and peers attitudes towards the integration of pupils with Down's Syndrome.
… educational needs, including six pupils with Down's Syndrome. The research involved extensive participant observations within the school, semi-structured interviews and informal discussions with nineteen (19) teachers as well as individual and group discussions with the use of a picture with a …
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Understandings of Down's syndrome and their place in the prenatal testing context
… choice in the context of prenatal testing for Down's syndrome. The main aims were to describe the written information that women receive about Down's syndrome prior to prenatal screening, characterise understandings of Down's syndrome that exist independently of the testing context, and …
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Retinal thickness in adults with Down's syndrome: Relationship with age, cognition and dementia
People with Down’s syndrome (DS) are known to experience premature ageing and have a high propensity for clinical diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In DS there is a unique and natural model of over-expression of amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein, the accumulation of which is proposed …
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Comparison of Four Stimulus-Response Modalities in Paired-Associate Learning With Down's Syndrome Children
… by children diagnosed as having Down's Syndrome. These mentally retarded children have been found to perform better in visual-motor, rather than auditory-vocal, tasks of cognitive ability.
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Using EEG to investigate premature aging and cognitive decline in adults with Down's Syndrome
Down’s Syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder associated with intellectual disability, accelerated aging and a propensity for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Beta-amyloid plaques are one of the pathological hallmarks of AD, and also a common characteristic of the older DS brain. AD treatment …
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A Comparison of Cytogenetic Groups of Children With Down's Syndrome on Verbal and Nonverbal Measures
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Do Down's Syndrome patients in Scotland have access to appropriate treatment and support for aggressive periodontal disease?
… first part will look at the relationship between Down's Syndrome (DS) and aggressive periodontitis. The second part will identify treatments relevant to this particular group of patients, and discuss the effectiveness of such treatments. Finally, I will investigate how readily available treatment …
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A Cytogenetic and Karyotypic Study of Eighty-Seven Patients Clinically Diagnosed as Having Down's Syndrome at Woodward State Hospital
… patients clinically diagnosed as having Down's syndrome were studied by chromosome analysis at Woodward State Hospital, Woodward, Iowa, during June and July of 1972. Procedure. A cytogenetic analysis was made on chromosomes prepared from leucocytes cultured from peripheral blood. Ten …
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Advancing knowledge into the clinical assessment of dementia.
… of defining learning disabilities, such as Down's syndrome, and the complexity of assessing people who have both a learning disability and dementia. Social and cultural differences were discussed together with the influence of environmental factors in measuring dementia. Theoretical …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΔΙΟΡΘΩΤΙΚΩΝ ΜΗΧΑΝΙΣΜΩΝ ΤΟΥ DNA ΣΕ ΛΕΜΦΟΚΥΤΤΑΡΑ ΑΤΟΜΩΝ ΜΕ ΣΥΝΔΡΟΜΟ DOWN
THE CAPABILITY OF CELLS FROM CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME TO REPAIR X-RAY INDUCED DAMAGE IN DNA WAS STUDIED BY MEANS OF THREE DIFFERENT METHODS, NAMELY: 1) BY COUNTING SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGES (SCE) IN NORMAL AND DOWN CELLS WHICH WEREFOUND OF SIMILAR LEVELS. IN THIS RESPECT DS RESEMBLES …
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A study of oral health care for the children with genetic disorder and chromosomal abnormalities
… of oral hygiene management for the children with Down's Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome. Thirty five caregivers of the children was answered about children`s characteristics, oral health condition and management, socio-economic status of the caregivers. The collected data were analyzed by Fisher's …
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Exploring the Sequence of Establishing Derived Relational Responding in Children with Global Developmental Delay
… Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and one child with Down's syndrome, were exposed to verbal assessments (the Verbal Behaviour Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, VB-MAPP; the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, K-BIT; and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, PPVT) following which they were …
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Karyotypes and Case Studies of Ten Individuals With Suspected Sex Chromosome Anomalies
… Two male residents suspected of having Turner's syndrome in the male were found to have a 46,XY chromosome complement. One male resident with a Klinefelter's phenotype had a 46,XY chromosome complement. One male had a 49,XXXXY chromosome complement. Conclusions. The six females in the study were …
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Attitudes of disabled people toward other disabled people and impairment groups
… Arthritis, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, HIV/AIDS, Down's Syndrome and Schizophrenia. The nondisabled sample rank ordering was the same for five of the seven impairment groups, with only Cerebral Palsy and HIV / AIDS being placed in reverse order. The GASTDP contains two sub-scales (Subtle and …
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Effects on fathers of children with disabilities
… sample of 111 fathers of children with Down's syndrome, 97 were interviewed and 87 completed a booklet of questionnaires. The interviews were semi-structured in order to gain fathers' perspectives of the effects on themselves and their families. The booklet of questionnaires included …
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Tetrahydrobiopterin Metabolism in Mental Retardation
… ratio was noted in senile dementia brains. Down's syndrome patients showed low plasma neopterin indicating a possible synthesis defect. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia children on methotrexate showed elevated urinary biopterin excretion whilst fragile-X patients showed no change from controls. …
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The Contribution of APP gene dosage to the molecular phenotypes of Alzheimer's disease in human trisomy 21 neurons
Down syndrome is a condition caused by trisomy 21 and occurs in 1 out of 700 births. People with trisomy 21 are high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that causes approximately 65% of dementia. People with trisomy 21 develop Alzheimer’s disease pathologies by age …
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