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Mental Retardation

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1993
In children with mental retardation, development is altered so that adaptive and cognitive skills are significantly deficient. Causes of mental retardation are varied and include newborn trauma, infectious diseases, chromosomal abnormalities, metabolic disorders, and environmental toxins.
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Sleep in the mentally retarded

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 1967
Abstract The authors have compared the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the different phases of sleep in a group of mentally subnormal cases and in a group of normal cases, in an attempt to discover in the diverse categories of mental deficiency which factors were similar and which dissimilar.
O, Petre-Quadens, M, Jouvet
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Mental Retardation is Dead: Long Live Mental Retardation !

Mental Retardation, 2002
Mental r. We don’t like those words. They were misused and misinterpreted by a lot of people. Especially children on the streets. Those words were also used to dehumanize people and to hurt them . . . . People with disabilities can not and never will be comfortable when they hear those words . . . .
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Psychopathology and Mental Retardation

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1967
A study of 227 retarded children and their families revealed that emotional maladjustment more often than not accompanies retardation. The author points out, however, that disturbed behavior in the retarded is not due primarily to limited intellectual capacities but to delayed, disordered personality functions and disturbed interpersonal relationships ...
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MENTAL RETARDATION IN CHILDREN

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1953
Mental retardation is one of the serious problems of childhood. According to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, quoted by Hungerford and associates,17% of the school population suffers from some type of mental retardation. Every mentally retarded child presents medical problems to a greater or lesser degree.
A, LEVINSON, C, GOLDENBERG
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Psychotherapies With the Mentally Retarded

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1986
The need for psychotherapy with the mentally retarded is evident from the high prevalence of emotional disturbance in this group. Psychotherapy can be done following the same general principles as with nonretarded persons, with modifications for the level of cognitive and language skills.
C, Stavrakaki, J, Klein
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Employment of the Mentally Retarded

Exceptional Children, 1967
A survey was made of the records in the state office of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to determine the extent to which educable retarded youth found employment on jobs for which they were trained in the Texas statewide Cooperative Program of Special Education in the public schools. Records for a 26 month period provided the data. A total of
C G, Strickland, V M, Arrell
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Ministry and Mental Retardation

Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, 1969
This has been an attempt to show how the parents of the mentally retarded inspired me to take a second look at my theological views, to show the method I used, and to give a few instances out of many in which my theological views have been affected. If space had allowed, it would have been good to show how this human predicament can cast new light on ...
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The neuropsychology of mental retardation

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1996
AbstractThis critical review examines mental retardation (MR) from a neuropsychological perspective. Competing definitions of MR are discussed and the prevalence is estimated. Descriptions are given of idiopathic MR and the five major identifiable prenatal causes of MR: fetal alcohol syndrome, Down's syndrome, fragile X syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome,
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Genetics of mental retardation

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2000
Aim of this review is to present the latest advances in the identification of the genetic determinants of intellectual deficiency. Mental retardation (MR) is often associated with other neurologic symptoms, metabolic disorders, or malformation syndromes.
Chiurazzi, P (Pietro), Oostra, Ben
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