The Prevention of Maternal Phenylketonuria (PKU) Syndrome: The Development and Evaluation of a Specific Training Program.

Background: Maternal phenylketonuria (PKU) syndrome, leading to severe psychomotor retardation, microcephaly, cardiac defects and undergrowth, affects the unborn children of mothers with PKU with insufficient metabolic control during pregnancy. To improve long-term outcomes, a specific prevention program was developed.

Methods: We designed a group training program for young women with PKU (>14 years) and their partners.

Executive functions & metabolic control in phenylketonuria (PKU) and mild hyperphenylalaninemia (mHPA).

Background: Due to newborn screening and early treatment, patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and mild hyperphenylalaninemia (mHPA) develop largely normal, in terms of IQ testing and academic attainment. However, the impact of metabolic control in various stages of development on more complex cognitive abilities, i.e.

Children, but not great apes, respect ownership.

Access to and control of resources is a major source of costly conflicts. Animals, under some conditions, respect what others control and use (i.e.