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An 8 page discussion of Microcephaly, a rare condition in which the cranium fails to grow in relation with the rest of the body. The condition is associated with a wide range of problems ranging from minor motor impairment to severe mental retardation. This paper attempts to help the student narrow down the topic to one of a more manageable size, suggesting an evaluation of the relationship between microcephaly and autism would be extremely interesting. Provides a definition of microcephaly and an outline of the conditions with which it is associated. Examines the literature specifically in regard to its correlation with autism. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmcrcph.rtf
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The student has specified that the assignment at hand is a research study on microcephaly. With just a brief review of the literature it becomes apparent that
this is a subject with a wide span of coverage. Microcephaly is, in fact, a physiological component of a wide variety of afflictions with etiologies ranging from mild dysfunctions
in motor skills to mental retardation (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2001). The condition can run in families but does not always appear in all siblings.
Indeed, the condition sometimes affects siblings differently and may not be apparent in parents at all. Nevin, Thomas, and Hutchinson (1986), suggest that it is autosomal recessive.
To undertake a research project on such a wide subject, the first task might be to provide a general overview of the problem at hand
and then to narrow the subject down somewhat into a particular area of concentration. Since the student is completing this project for a class on mental retardation, it should
follow that the area of emphasis in regard to microcephaly should be one or more of the conditions which are most often linked to mental retardation. In order to direct
the student in completing their own research in this area, this author would suggest that the chosen focus of this paper could be the relationship between microcephaly and autism, one
of the more common forms of mental retardation. This relationship is particularly interesting because, although there is a correlation between autism and the presence of microcephaly, there is doubt
reflected in the literature as to the relationship of microcephaly and the behavioral characteristics of autism. In order to obtain reference material for
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