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‘I Know it was Every Week, but I Can't be Sure if it was Every Day: Domestic Violence and Women with Learning Disabilities

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Background Domestic violence against women is well researched in the general population, but much less so in relation to women with learning disabilities. This qualitative research study interviewed 15 women with learning disabilities who had experienced
M. McCarthy, Siobhan Hunt, Karen Milne‐Skillman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi, Lara Basovic, Christopher Michael McGraw   +2 more
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Remote Assessment of Ataxia Severity in SCA3 Across Multiple Centers and Time Points

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a genetically defined ataxia. The Scale for Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) is a clinician‐reported outcome that measures ataxia severity at a single time point. In its standard application, SARA fails to capture short‐term fluctuations, limiting its sensitivity in trials.
Marcus Grobe‐Einsler, Vivian Maas, Arian Taheri Amin, Jennifer Faber, Tamara Schaprian, Katharina Hill, Matthis Synofzik, Lisa H. Graf, Heike Jacobi, Manuela Lima, Ana F. Ferreira, Bart P. van de Warrenburg, Ilse H. J. Willemse, Dagmar Timmann, Andreas Thieme, Paola Giunti, Hector Garcia‐Moreno, Magda M. Santana, Jeannette Hübener‐Schmid, Elin H. Davies, Thomas Klockgether   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mixture model investigation of the inner–outer asymmetry in visual crowding reveals a heavier weight towards the visual periphery

Scientific Reports, 2021
Crowding, the failure to identify a peripheral item in clutter, is an essential bottleneck in visual information processing. A hallmark characteristic of crowding is the inner–outer asymmetry in which the outer flanker (more eccentric) produces stronger ...
Adi Shechter, Amit Yashar
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People with learning disabilities and the construction of interpersonal relationships [PDF]

, 2007
Interpersonal relationships play an important role in our sense of self and satisfaction with our lives. Literature suggests that people who have learning disabilities have limited opportunities to make and maintain interpersonal relationships; however ...
Wilson, Ruth Danielle
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Contraceptive decision-making and women with learning disabilities

, 2016
This article explores contraceptive decision-making for women with learning disabilities. It sets the historical context of reproductive control by highlighting former practices which overtly aimed to prevent women with learning disabilities from ...
S. Ledger, S. Earle, E. Tilley, J. Walmsley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patients with learning disabilities [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2009
With reference to the letters following and original article by Mike Fitzpatrick,1 I find it hard to believe that our own patients' experience could be so very different to those in the study GPs' populations. I would agree that there may well be access difficulties to many of these patients, as there are to those with mobility problems, or indeed ...
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Clustering Algorithm Reveals Dopamine‐Motor Mismatch in Cognitively Preserved Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the relationship between dopaminergic denervation and motor impairment in two de novo Parkinson's disease (PD) cohorts. Methods n = 249 PD patients from Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) and n = 84 from an external clinical cohort.
Rachele Malito, Chiara Meneghini, Alice Galli, Luca Gallo, Pierfrancesco Mitrotti, Paola Dimartino, Marianna Inglese, Cinzia Zatti, Alessandro Lupini, Andrea Pilotto, Alessandro Padovani, Micol Avenali, Enza Maria Valente, Cristina Tassorelli, Silvia P. Caminiti   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Separability of Lexical and Morphological Knowledge: Evidence from Language Minority Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Lexical and morphological knowledge of school-aged children are correlated with each other, and are often difficult to distinguish. One reason for this might be that many tasks currently used to assess morphological knowledge require children to inflect ...
Daphna Shahar-Yames, Daphna Shahar-Yames, Zohar Eviatar, Zohar Eviatar, Anat Prior, Anat Prior   +5 more
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Sex and Relationships for People with Learning Disabilities: A Challenge for Parents and Professionals

, 2008
This paper considers some of the issues around sex and relationships for people with learning disabilities. It is essentially a discussion paper, highlighting previous research, and information about the rights of people with learning disabilities to ...
Garbutt, Ruth
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