Most children with microcephaly also have a small brain, poor motor function, poor speech, and abnormal facial features, and are intellectually disabled. Researchers believe the roots of the ...

MICHAEL SMITH: When a pregnant woman gets zika virus, doctors believe it can cause a serious, often fatal birth defect called microcephaly. That means the baby's head and brain are much smaller ...

Indeed, the infant’s brain development did not proceed normally so that when the infant was finally discharged after spending three months in the hospital, he had microcephaly, which is when the ...

Sensorineural Deafness: Hearing loss due to damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve. Microcephaly: Abnormally small head ...

The ferret’s genome was altered with CRISPR to give rise to microcephaly, a birth defect where the brain is smaller than normal. It’s a timely development: The Zika virus epidemic is directly ...

The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side.

Microcephaly is an uncommon disorder in which a baby’s head is much smaller than normal due to abnormal brain development while in the womb or shortly after birth. Babies with this condition will ...

The three-toed sloth, native to the Amazon basin, is not known for its speed. The animals move almost as if they were in slow ...

Severe learning difficulties are intellectual disabilities that occur when the brain does not develop ... sometimes accompanied by seizures or microcephaly (small heads) others had relatively ...

TIGER mosquitoes carrying killer ‘breakbone’ fever have made home or been spotted in at least 18 EU countries. Popular ...

which creates potentially harmful pressure on brain tissues and can lead to problems with walking, impaired bladder control, progressive mental impairment, and dementia. Microcephaly, a birth ...