Ned Rapp MD

This e-journal club represents the inaugural edition of a monthly journal club devoted to developmental disabilities which may or may not be accompanied by intellectual disabilities. The Journal Club will be published monthly and will contain 2-6 summaries of recent articles with occasional editorial comments, and each journal club will be devoted to a individual topic.

Journal #2, January 13th, 2012

Article Summary:

The Natural History of Aging in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
Article Reviewed and Summarized By Ned Rapp, MD

Original Article Citation: Am. J of Med. Genetics Part C (Seminars in Medical Genetics) 145C:248–260 (2007)

ABSTRACTS IN DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE
Ned Rapp, MD, AADMD Co-editor, Abstracts in DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTHCARE PROJECT

Summaries and Reviews of Adult Medical and Dental Developmental Disabilities

Rett syndrome:Long term clinical follow up experience over four decades

Hagberg Bengt

J Child Neurol (2005); 20:722-727

The purpose of this short commentary on the history of the Hepatitis B virus is to increase understanding of immunity to the virus and to present the fascinating story of how medical scientists approached the problem of detecting an unknown virus.

I-Clinical perspective