Assessment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Carrier Status by Determining Copy Number Using Dried Blood Spots.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common neuromuscular disease with autosomal recessive inheritance. The disease gene, , is homozygously deleted in 95% of SMA patients. Although SMA has been an incurable disease, treatment in infancy with newly developed drugs has dramatically improved the disease severity.

Determining the association between polymorphisms of the and genes with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children from Java Island.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurobehavioural in the children. Genetic factor is known one of the factors which contributed in ADHD development. VNTR polymorphism in 3'UTR exon 15 of DAT1 gene and exon 3 of DRD4 gene are reported to be associated in ADHD.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): age related change of completion time and error rates of Stroop test.

Background: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurobehavioral problem in children throughout the world. The Stroop test has been widely used for the evaluation of ADHD symptoms. However, the age-related change of the Stroop test results has not been fully clarified until now.