Child Brain Injury Have Normal Life Opportunities

Children who suffered brain injuries have a chance to live like a normal child. By utilizing the brain that are still healthy, child brain injury can be optimized motor skills and intellectual. When a convicted child suffered brain injury, parents often confused what to do.

Various therapies do to make their children return to normal as physical therapy, speech therapy, and vision therapy. Unfortunately the result is often considered less satisfactory, although in some cases this kind of therapy brought little change.

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New Theory of Cause "Down Syndrome"

Until now, experts do not know the exact cause of Down syndrome or mental retardation disorders. Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality on chromosome 21 where additional amounts of chromosomes.

There are 22 pairs of human chromosomes. In those affected by Down syndrome, chromosome to chromosome-21 there are additional or displacement chromosomes from other places so that the chromosome 21 plus the we know trisomy 21.

Due to the addition of chromosomes, there will be disorder in children. Usually the disorder of the nerves, bones, skin, heart and digestive function.

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Iodine Deficiency Causes Mental Retardation

Thousands of children will be threatened with impaired mental retardation or "idiot" due to lack of iodine salt. Iodine salt deficiency was found to also affect a child's mental retardation can result in a comment. Even the most, at this time in the community are still many outstanding salt contains no iodine, not the least of people who also buy salt without iodine in salt content.

Some experts said the lack of iodine salt is dangerous because it can give birth a generation that is not qualified and not productive. Salt iodine deficiency can lead to generation of idiots or mental retardation, short body, dumb, deaf or paralyzed.

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Tay-Sachs Disease Causes Mental Retardation

Tay-Sachs disease is a rare genetic disorder, which occurs in the formation of fat cells, particularly in brain and nerve cells (neurons). Causing mental retardation and physical barriers to the development of normal accompanied by seizures, blindness, paralysis and death. There is no specific treatment for this disorder.

This disease consists of several types, whereas the focus in this article is Tay-Sachs Infantil Acute most frequently found.

People with this disease have enzyme levels heksosamidase A (hex A) is low compared to those working to solve this normal.Enzim gangliosida (a fat) in body cells. These fatty compounds are gradually buried and cause damage to brain cells and nerves so that these cells do not function properly.

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Causes of Mental Retardation

In the United States the prevalence of this disorder is 3:100 people (The Arc, 2001). American Psychiatric Association year 2000 (in Rathus, 2005, h.149-153) states the cause of mental retardation can be caused by:

Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities 
Wade in 2000 declared the most common chromosomal abnormality that causes mental retardation is Down syndrome which is characterized by the presence of excess chromosome or a third chromosome on the 21st chromosome pair, resulting in chromosome number to 47.

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Genetic Disorders Causing Mental Retardation

Scientists in the United States identified the genetic disorder that causes retardation or mental retardation and epilepsy. Disturbance of small segments of DNA code is missing, as revealed by the research team leader from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Washington Evan Eichler, also cause malformations, the abnormality of form or structure of organs.

Evan Eichler led the team consists of 33 researchers from the U.S., Italy and Britain to menscreening entire genomes of 757 individuals with mental retardation. Syndrome is still not known his name is associated with a small segment of DNA code found in one out of 330 cases of retardation with the causes that have not been clear. This syndrome is estimated to affect one out of 40,000 general population.

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