The adult development program: an educational approach to the delivery of mental health services.

The adult development program is an intensive, shortterm program for individuals who want to change their behavior. It is based on an educational model; participants, who are called students, set their own behavior-change goals, and a multidisciplinary staff teach them techniques for reaching those goals. The program curriculum consists of about 20 seminars and workshops, which give the students an opportunity to learn and to practice new behaviors.

Parital characterization of the rat anti-encephalitogenic protein (RSCP).

A protein antigenically similar to the anti-encephalitogenic bovine spinal cord protein (BSCP) was detected in saline extracts of rat nervous tissues by immunodiffusion analyses using a rabbit anti-BSCP serum. Rat SCP (RSCP) appears to be evenly distributed throughout all parts of the rat nervous system and occurs also in the thymus, thyroid, and adrenal glands. Although immunodiffusion analyses indicated that RSCP shares some antigenic sites with BSCP, anti-RSCP sera reacted only with RSCP, indicating that the major immunogenic determinants of the RSCP are peculiar to the rat and differ from the immunogenic determinants of human, monkey, rabbit, guinea pig, or bovine SCP.

Ectodermal dysplasia, mental retardation, cleft lip/palate and other anomalies in three sibs.

Three females in a sibship of 10 have a syndrome of mental retardation, ectodermal dysplasia, and cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Inconstant features are congenital skin defects, areas of hyperpigmentation, congenital adhesions between the eyelids, cicatricial atrophy of the scalp, abnormal E.E.

Further characterization of the anti-encephalitogenic protein (SCP): isolation from bovine spinal cord and spinal roots.

The three molecular forms of the anti-encephalitogenic protein, beta-SCP, gamma-SCP, and SCP-peptide were isolated in higher yield by a shortened procedure, which involved 1) extraction of bovine spinal cord (BSC) or bovine spinal roots (BSR) with 0.05 M sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.5, 2) batch absorption on CM-52 cellulose, 3) stepwise elution with sodium acetate buffers, pH 5.

Nutritional status of black preschool children in Mississippi. Assessment by food frequency scale.

Food frequency data were studied in relation to the nutritional status of 372 black preschool children in three Mississippi counties. The following data were utilized: quantitative dietary intakes for four or seven days, from which intakes of eight nutrients and energy were calculated and frequency of consumption of all individual foods was obtained; and anthropometric (height) and biochemical (hemoglobin) meausres. Six Guttman scales of food consumption frequencies were constructed: in four scales, all foods consumed in four or seven days were assigned to one of nine food groups which formed scale steps; two scales represented foods from single food groups--breads and milk and milk products.

Polydactyly and other minor stigmata associated with 46,XX-47,XX,D+ mosaicism.

Mosaicism for normal and D-trisomic cells was found in a female child whose presenting abnormalities at birth were polydactyly of the left hand and foot, hemangiomata on the forehead and lumbosacral region, slightly peculiar facies and unusual dermal patterns. Her course during the first 27 months of life was characterized by normal growth, absence of clinical evidence of congenital heart disease, moderate developmental retardation, tonguetie and toe-walking. Trisomic cells were more numerous than normal cells in skin cultures, whereas the reverse was true for peripheral leukocytes.