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Recommended Books on Turner Syndrome

Wellness for Girls and Women With Turner Syndrome: Proceedings of the "International Meeting on Wellness for Children and Women With Turner Syndrome" Held ... April 2006, Ics 1 (International Congress) The multidisciplinary conference Wellness for Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome was held in April 2006 in Washington DC. A broad range of new and important data was presented and discussed. In particular, the rapid advances in genetic screening, cardiovascular imaging and assisted reproductive technology in recent years presented novel opportunities and challenges for the caregivers of girls and women with Turner syndrome (TS). In addition to new imaging recommendations, new findings on abnormal cardiac conduction and repolarization in girls and women with TS were presented and combined with recent findings of altered heart rate variability, seem to support a fundamental alteration in autonomic nervous system activity in TS. The baseline tachycardia and prolonged QTc in many patients with TS thus deserves closer evaluation to determine whether they may be at risk for arrhythmia. In the field of pediatric growth and development there are also new recommendations. With the recent publication of the randomized, placebo-controlled Canadian GH in TS study, there is finally definitive evidence that GH promotes several inches of statural growth in the average girl with TS. There was discussion on the optimal age of initiation, and duration of GH use, but these issues require further study. The section on psychosocial development emphasized the point that full scale intelligence is normal for most individuals with TS and that educational attainments are on the whole excellent. Specific problem areas have been identified, including difficulties with attention span, visualspatial perception and some aspects of executive function (e.g. multi-tasking). Difficulties with social adjustment may manifest during childhood and adolescence, but adults with TS seem relatively stable in psychological terms. Hopefully "Wellness for Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome" will serve as an inspiration for researchers, as an update and clinical guide for clinical working physicians, and as a source of information for parents and females with Turner syndrome.

Turner Syndrome Medical Guide The Turner Syndrome Medical Guide is a publication which has been designed to better help readers understand Turner Syndrome. This Qontro Medical Guide has been designed with the reader in mind, and is a useful information source for readers at all levels looking to learn more about Turner Syndrome. The Turner Syndrome Medical Guide is highly recommended for those interested in understanding and learning more about Turner Syndrome.

All About Me: Growing up with Turner Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Kayli's personal account of her experience growing up with Turner Syndrome would be a useful read for persons who seek to understand some of the difficulties that persons with this syndrome, as well as NLD, face. Kayli is a vivacious and delightful girl whose personality sings accross the page. She has shown remarkable ability to absorb infromation, gain personal insight, and communicate both information and reflections to the reader.

Mathematics learning disability in girls with Turner syndrome or fragile X syndrome [An article from: Brain and Cognition] This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Two studies were carried out to examine the persistence (Study 1) and characteristics (Study 2) of mathematics learning disability (MLD) in girls with Turner syndrome or fragile X during the primary school years (ages 5-9 years). In Study 1, the rate of MLD for each syndrome group exceeded the rate observed in a grade-matched comparison group, although the likelihood of MLD persisting through the primary school years was comparable for all three groups. In Study 2, formal and informal math skills were compared across the syndrome groups, a normative group, and children from the normative group who had MLD. Few differences were observed between the Turner syndrome and normative groups. Despite having rote counting and number representation skills comparable to those in the normative group, girls with fragile X had difficulty with counting rules (e.g., cardinality, number constancy). However, this difficulty did not distingush them from the MLD group. Overall, counting skills appear to distinguish the Turner syndrome and fragile X groups, suggesting that the specificity of math deficits emerges earlier for fragile X than Turner syndrome.

Ocular motor indicators of executive dysfunction in fragile X and Turner syndromes [An article from: Brain and Cognition] This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Fragile X and Turner syndromes are two X-chromosome-related disorders associated with executive function and visual spatial deficits. In the present study, we used ocular motor paradigms to examine evidence that disruption to different neurological pathways underlies these deficits. We tested 17 females with fragile X, 19 females with Turner syndrome, and 40 females with neither disorder who comprised the comparison group. Group differences emerged for both the fragile X and Turner syndrome groups, each relative to the comparison group: Females with fragile X had deficits in generating memory-guided saccades, predictive saccades, and saccades made in the overlap condition of a gap/overlap task. Females with Turner syndrome showed deficits in generating memory-guided saccades, but not during either the predictive saccade or gap/overlap task. Females with Turner syndrome, but not females with fragile X, showed deficits in visually guided saccades and anti-saccades. These findings indicate that different brain regions are affected in the two disorders, and suggest that different pathways lead to the similar cognitive phenotypes described for fragile X and Turner syndromes.

Turner Syndrome - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.

Turner Syndrome - A Bibliography and Dictionary for Physicians, Patients, and Genome Researchers In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing. Since only the smallest fraction of information dealing with Turner syndrome is indexed in search engines, such as www.google.com or others, a non-systematic approach to Internet research can be not only time consuming, but also incomplete. This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.

Le syndrome de Turner (French Edition)

Le syndrome de Turner touche 1 naissance sur 2500 et atteint exclusivement les filles. Il est dû à une anomalie de nombre ou de structure du chromosome X qui est responsable d’une petite taille, d’une dysgénésie gonadique et d’atteintes polyviscérales.

Depuis vingt ans la prise en charge pédiatrique a révolutionné le devenir de ces enfants grâce aux traitements par hormone de croissance et par estrogènes.

Une synthèse des connaissances cliniques relatives à chaque spécialité était nécessaire de manière à développer une approche pluridisciplinaire indispensable dans ce type d’affection.

Cet ouvrage est un outil indispensable pour tout médecin cherchant à acquérir une base de connaissances dans ce domaine. Le lecteur sera conquis par l’intérêt didactique et par la précision de chaque chapitre rédigé par des experts du domaine.

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