Language English Other (specify below) ________________ Report category Licentiate thesis Degree thesis Thesis, C-level Thesis, D-level Other (specify below) L1 syndrome is an X-linked recessive disorder, characterised by congenital hydrocephalus, adducted thumbs, spastic paraplegia, agenesis of the corpus callosum and mental retardation. The disease is caused by mutations in the L1CAM gene, en...

This first report of recurrent multiple inflammatory fibroid polyps occurred in three generations of a Devon family; in the grandmother first at the age of 59 years, in the mother first at the age of 35 years, both in Tiverton, and in the granddaughter first at the age of 22 years, three years after emigrating to New Zealand. Only one female in each generation has been affected, in a direct lin...

BACKGROUND Being an adolescent mother and cohabiting with the maternal grandmother have been shown to be risk factors for a shorter breastfeeding duration. The objective of this study was to assess whether the positive effects of a pro-breastfeeding intervention aimed at adolescent mothers and maternal grandmothers on the prevalence of breastfeeding observed in the first year of life were maint...

Maternal depression has been linked to a variety of negative developmental outcomes for children. Using data from Waves I and III of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study used a three-generational model (child, mother, grandmother) to examine maternal depression as it relates to the quality of the mother-daughter relationship and children’s behaviors. The study found ...

n the spring of 2007, just weeks before my college graduation , my parents called to tell me that my grandmother was sick. I was worried to hear that she was in the hospital, but like the rest of my family, I had little doubt that she'd be better in no time. At a spry 82 years, my grandmother was the picture of health. She was a nonsmoker, a nondrinker, and had had no medical problems except fo...