The contribution of novel brain imaging techniques to understanding the neurobiology of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

@article{Gothelf2005TheCO,
  title={The contribution of novel brain imaging techniques to understanding the neurobiology of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.},
  author={Doron Gothelf and Joyce A Furfaro and Lauren Penniman and Gary H. Glover and Allan L. Reiss},
  journal={Mental retardation and developmental disabilities research reviews},
  year={2005},
  volume={11 4},
  pages={
          331-9
        }
}
Studying the biological mechanisms underlying mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR/DD) is a very complex task. This is due to the wide heterogeneity of etiologies and pathways that lead to MR/DD. Breakthroughs in genetics and molecular biology and the development of sophisticated brain imaging techniques during the last decades have facilitated the emergence of a field called Behavioral Neurogenetics. Behavioral Neurogenetics focuses on studying genetic diseases with known… 
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