Word: phenylketonuria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...autism usually develop in a baby's first weeks, seemingly well before strong parental influence is possible. Moreover, studies indicate that the other offspring of parents with an autistic child are almost invariably normal. Some researchers hope that autism will turn out to be similar to cretinism and phenylketonuria (or P.K.U.)-products of some defective chemistry affecting the nervous system. Meanwhile, a growing number of experts would like to sidestep the question of parental blame and concentrate on teaching autistic children acceptable substitutes for their difficult and harmful behavior. Says Dr. Leon Eisenberg, chief of psychiatry at Boston...
Whether or not a man's genes may predispose him to criminal tendencies, Chemist Linus Pauling believes that they may have a lot to do with his mental state. This has been proved for a few relatively uncommon conditions such as phenylketonuria (PKU), in which a defective gene leaves the baby unable to metabolize phenylalanine. The resulting metabolic upset damages the brain and causes mental retardation. But Dr. Pauling would go much farther. In Science, he suggests that because of genetic as well as environmental differences, some people may need more of certain vitamins or other essential nutrients than...
...researchers had linked abnormal palm prints with no fewer than 19 disorders (counting many chromosomal mixups), including two more forms of mongolism, the absence of fingernails or toenails, webbing between the fingers and toes, and possibly phenylketonuria...
...School of Pharmacy leads the nation in pharmaceutical research expenditures. Its School of Medicine has performed spectacular research in studying ways to enable dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain-crippling phenylketonuria (PKU) in infants. Foundation grants have allowed Buffalo to snare Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby and Physicist Edward Teller as visiting professors. Critic Leslie Fiedler teaches in the English department. S.U.N.Y.'s only law school is at Buffalo...
...Massachusetts department of public health decided a year ago to turn the commonwealth into a proving ground for an all-out attack on an inherited metabolic disorder, phenylketonuria or PKU, which causes severe mental retardation. (At least 5,000 of the 5.5 million mentally retarded in the U.S. are PKU victims.) Because of a defective gene inherited from both parents, a PKU baby cannot make use of phenylalanine, which is found in most protein foods, and the poison that accumulates in his system as a result permanently damages the brain. But if PKU is detected early enough, a special diet...