Metopic craniosynostosis is a rare condition in infants in which a certain part of the skull fuses earlier than it typically would. The condition can range from mild to severe and cause long-term ...

In this study we describe five unrelated individuals (four boys and a girl) with GLI3 mutation-proven GCPS and a typical pattern of pre- and post-axial polydactyly, all of whom had trigonocephaly ...

The soft spot and metopic suture are clearly visible on the skull of the young human (right) and absent in the young chimpanzee (left). Those features are present, although harder to see, in the ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which one or more of the seams (sutures) in a baby’s skull close before the baby’s brain has fully formed. Normally, these sutures stay open until babies are ...

Have you ever seen a baby wearing headgear that looked like a helmet? They may be doing helmet therapy or cranial orthosis. Some babies who require helmet therapy have a condition called ...

Craniosynostosis is a rare condition in which a baby develops or is born with an unusually shaped skull. It happens when one or more of the natural spaces in the infant’s skull join together too early ...

A large neonate brain, rapid brain growth and large frontal lobes are the typical hallmarks of human brain development. These appeared much earlier in the hominin family tree than was originally ...