Mental Retardation - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Use of psychotropic medication among individuals with mental retardation]

8 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Individuals who have mental retardation and live by themselves have little knowledge of psychotropic medication. The aim of this study is to examine the use of psychotropic medication among individuals with mental retardation, 10-20 ... Read more...

Register data suggest lower intelligence in men born the year after flu pandemic.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu, an influenza pandemic that haunted Europe during winter 1969 to 1970, was associated with reduced intelligence in adulthood. METHODS: Data from the Medical Birth Register ... Read more...

Recurrent rearrangements in synaptic and neurodevelopmental genes and shared biologic pathways in schizophrenia, autism, and mental retardation.

30 Aug 2009 CONTEXT: Results of comparative genomic hybridization studies have suggested that rare copy number variations (CNVs) at numerous loci are involved in the cause of mental retardation, autism spectrum disorders, and schizophrenia. OBJECTIVES: To ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Retardation - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Use of psychotropic medication among individuals with mental retardation] 8 Sep 2009
• Gillespie syndrome with impaired accommodation. 30 Aug 2009
• Register data suggest lower intelligence in men born the year after flu pandemic. 30 Aug 2009
• Environmental factors, brain development, and intelligence in adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Recurrent rearrangements in synaptic and neurodevelopmental genes and shared biologic pathways in schizophrenia, autism, and mental retardation. 30 Aug 2009
• Prognostic factors for epileptic seizures in severe motor and intellectual disabilities syndrome (SMIDS)--a clinical and electroencephalographic study. 23 Aug 2009
• Improving genetic health care: a Northern New England pilot project addressing the genetic evaluation of the child with developmental delays or intellectual disability. 13 Aug 2009
• Chronic lung disease and developmental delay at 2 years of age in children born before 28 weeks' gestation. 18 Jul 2009
• Ring chromosome 20 syndrome: a link between epilepsy onset and neuropsychological impairment in three children. 30 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing autism: the role for emergence. 29 Jun 2009
• Functional skills of individuals with fragile x syndrome: a lifespan cross-sectional analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Monoamine oxidase a promoter gene associated with problem behavior in adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. 29 Jun 2009
• Thyroid disorders in mental patients. 29 Jun 2009
• Clinical usefulness of the diagnostic manual-intellectual disability for mental disorders in persons with intellectual disability: results from a brief field survey. 31 May 2009
• [Evolution of genetic testing techniques] 30 May 2009
• [Etiologic evaluation of genetically-caused mental retardation. Diagnostic algorithm and new molecular techniques] 30 May 2009
• Community management of intellectual disabilities in Pakistan: a mixed methods study. 30 May 2009
• Characteristics and needs of people with intellectual disability who have higher IQs. 30 May 2009
• De novo STXBP1 mutations in mental retardation and nonsyndromic epilepsy. 30 May 2009
• Pervasive developmental disorders and psychosis. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Retardation'

Definition: Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual is mentally retarded. IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)

Descriptor UI: D008607

Alternative terms: Mental Retardation; Retardation, Mental; Idiocy; Deficiency, Mental; Deficiencies, Mental; Mental Deficiencies; Mental Deficiency; Mental Retardation, Psychosocial; Mental Retardations, Psychosocial; Psychosocial Mental Retardation; Psychosocial Mental Retardations; Retardation, Psychosocial Mental; Retardations, Psychosocial Mental;

Related Mesh Headings: Abnormalities, Multiple; Cockayne Syndrome; Congenital Hypothyroidism; Cri-du-Chat Syndrome; De Lange Syndrome; Down Syndrome; Education of Mentally Retarded; Fragile X Syndrome; Laurence-Moon Syndrome; Prader-Willi Syndrome; Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome; Rett Syndrome; Angelman Syndrome; Williams Syndrome; Mentally Disabled Persons; Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn; Bardet-Biedl Syndrome;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.643; C23.888.592.604.646; F01.700.687; F03.550.600;

History Note: 1967(1963)

Technical Notes: use Cat C qualif; /rehabil permitted: do not equate with EDUCATION OF MENTALLY RETARDED