Sometimes, macrocephaly is a symptom of an underlying ... Instead, your doctor will help you manage the symptoms that your child has. This might include medical treatment as well as therapy ...

Infants with benign familial macrocephaly will not experience symptoms other than a large head. Other causes of macrocephaly may require investigation and treatment in order to prevent long-term ...

Following the emergence of symptoms, medical professionals will ... Nothing can be done to prevent macrocephaly from happening, but doctors can determine if it will impact the quality of life ...

A mouse model that approximates the germ-line heterozygous Pten (Pten +/−) mutations found in macrocephaly/autism ... selective behavioural and cognitive symptoms of ASD? To answer this question ...

"It's amazing that children with the same symptoms end up with two distinct ... boys diagnosed with autism -- including eight boys with macrocephaly, a condition in which the head is enlarged ...

Inuit children from Nunavut, Canada, may appear to have high rates of macrocephaly, based on World Health Organization (WHO) growth chart measurements. But in many cases, no pathology is ...

In this article the authors report the case of an infant born with extreme macrocephaly. The baby's head measured 50 cm in circumference (more than the 99th percentile). His anterior fontanel ...

The findings may also help identify autism cases that might benefit from existing drugs designed to ameliorate symptoms of disorders marked by excessive excitatory neuron activity, such as epilepsy, ...