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    Research Guidelines Regarding Microcephaly

    Number of Pages: 8

     

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    In eight pages this paper assists the student in microcephaly research with a consideration of definitions, literature, and autism association. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.

    Name of Research Paper 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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