Dr. Arthur Beaudet answers the question: 'Autism And Metal Retardation in Kids?' Oct. 23, 2008 -- Question: Do all children with autism also have mental retardation, and vice-versa? Answer: Not all ...

New research by Dutch geneticists affiliated with the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre demonstrates that spontaneous mutations are an important cause of mental retardation. The majority of ...

The Social Security Administration has signaled its intention to start using the term “intellectual disability” in place of “mental retardation.” More than two years after Congress required the ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling clarifying what constitutes intellectual disability also marked a major milestone in efforts to put an end to use of the term “mental retardation.” For the first ...

Two to three children in 100 are born with a mental handicap. This can be caused by a genetic defect, but in 80 percent of the cases scientists do not know which genes are responsible. Now, ...

PREVIOUSLY, we reported 3 phenylketonuric mothers who had 1, 5 and 8 nonphenylketonuric children, all mentally retarded. 1 We postulated that the metabolic derangement of the mothers caused the mental ...

Since average scores on particular IQ tests rise a few points every 3 or 4 years, those tests become obsolete after a couple of decades. In order to reset the average score to 100, harder IQ tests are ...

The saddest of all cries is that of a mother tenderly holding her retarded child and asking, “Why?” A cry of hunger can be satisfied with food, a cry of poverty alleviated with money, a cry of pain ...

The prosecution and trial of capital defendants in the United States is notoriously flawed by arbitrariness, prejudice, and error. These flaws are magnified when the ...

On the well-groomed campus where many Houstonians with mental retardation work, play and live, the mood has changed dramatically since the time, just months ago, when the facility was fighting for its ...