Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have come closer to finding the cause of congenital hydrocephalus, one of the most common neurological disorders of childhood that produces mental debilitation and sometimes death in premature and newborn children.
The research appears in the September 7, 2011, issue of the journal IScience Translational Medicine/I.
Hydrocephalus, which involves excess buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, affects about 1 in 500 children in the United States....
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have come closer to finding the cause of congenital hydrocephalus, one of the most common neurological disorders of childhood that produces mental debilitation and sometimes death in premature and newborn children.
The research appears in the September 7, 2011, issue of the journal IScience Translational Medicine/I.
Hydrocephalus, which involves excess buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, affects about 1 in 500 children in the United States....