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Clinical Assessment of Visual Motion Perception in Children With Brain Damage: A Comparison With Base Rates and Control Sample

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Aim: In this study, we examined (1) the presence of abnormally low scores (below 10th percentile) in various visual motion perception aspects in children with brain damage, while controlling for their cognitive developmental delay; (2) whether the risk ...
Ymie J. van der Zee, Ymie J. van der Zee, Peter L. J. Stiers, Lieven Lagae, Heleen M. Evenhuis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability [PDF]

, 2007
[Excerpt] Both, people with intellectual disability and people with mental illness, suffer from prejudices, negative attitudes, degrading treatment, abuse and discrimination in society. They are often discriminated against by employers, social and health
Inclusion Europe, Mental Health Europe
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Prevalence of dysphagia in people with intellectual disability: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2017
Dysphagia (feeding and swallowing disorder) is associated with serious health complications and psychosocial sequelae. This review summarises international research relating to the prevalence of dysphagia in people with intellectual disability.
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz, Christopher H. Thompson, Linda C. Laux, Alfred L. George Jr.   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

IRB challenges in multisite studies: A case report and commentary from the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

HRB Open Research
A shift from single to multi-site health studies enabled a range of research benefits including faster recruitment of larger and more diverse samples; increased statistical power, greater rigour, generalisability, and external reliability; and increased ...
Darren McCausland, Margaret Haigh, Mary McCarron, Philip McCallion   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of mental health conditions and relationship with general health in a whole-country population of people with intellectual disabilities compared with the general population [PDF]

, 2017
Background: There are no previous whole-country studies on mental health and relationships with general health in intellectual disability populations; study results vary.
Cooper, Sally-Ann, Henderson, Angela, Hughes-McCormack, Laura A., MacIntyre, Cecilia, Rintoul, Julie, Rydzewska, Ewelina   +5 more
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Ketogenic Diet as an Epigenetic Therapy in SETD1B‐Related Epilepsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Histone lysine methyltransferases such as SETD1B regulate chromatin structure and gene transcription. Ketone bodies, including butyrate, act as histone deacetylase inhibitors. We report a 4‐year‐old boy with SETD1B‐related absence epilepsy, refractory to conventional medications, who achieved sustained > 90% seizure reduction on the Modified ...
Erica Tsang, Brian S. Gloss, Jessica P. Hayes, Andrew J. A. Holland, Manoj P. Menezes, Joceline A. Branson, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Jingya J. Yan, Shrujna Patel, Velda X. Han, Russell C. Dale   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poo Manager: Co‐Designing a Serious Computer Game to Improve Constipation Management Awareness in Carers of People With Intellectual Disabilities

Healthcare Technology Letters
Approximately 2% of the population are people with intellectual disability (PwID). PwID are prone to multimorbidity, polypharmacy and premature mortality.
Serena Daniel, Ruth Bishop, Stephen Howard, Sarah Lennard, Samantha Pye, Richard Laugharne, Christopher James, Rohit Shankar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Situation of People wit Complex Dependency Needs in Europe [PDF]

, 2002
[Excerpt] Since several years, Inclusion Europe and its member societies have put an accent on self-advocacy of persons with intellectual disability. For too long parents and professionals saw persons with intellectual disability only from the angle of ...

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Evidence of Iron Accumulation in Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy: A Potential Novel Disease Mechanism

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this first application of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Source Separation to cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, we uncovered alterations in iron and myelin within lesions and normal appearing white matter. As validation, we demonstrate abnormal iron accumulation in those same compartments within primary brain tissue.
Christina L. Nemeth, Mert Sisman, Jinwei Zhang, Hyeong‐geol Shin, Xu Li, Bela Turk, Ali Fatemi, Thanh Nguyen, Eric Mallack   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source