Mental Retardation
The term "mental retardation" refers to persons with deficits in both their intellectual and adaptive (everyday) functioning. These individuals typically show IQ scores below 70, as well as difficulties in… More »
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Mailing address: Department of Psychology and Civitan International Research Center, SC 313, University of Alabama at ... Mental retardation is an idea, a condition, a syndrome, a symptom, and a source of pain and bewilderment to many families. Its history dates back to the beginning of man's time on earth.
www.uab.edu/cogdev/mentreta.htm
The UCLA MRRC is a multidisciplinary research organization whose purpose is to provide new knowledge concerning the understanding and treatment of Mental ...
www.mrrc.npi.ucla.edu/
Yokohama National Univ. Matsuishi Laboratory presents its research on the medical causes of developmental disability, focusing on mental retardation. ... The first of our research theme is the examinations of the medical causes of developmental disability, particularly mental retardation with chromosomal abnormality.
www.matsuishi-lab.org/
The primary NIH organization for research on Developmental Disabilities is the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ... They cause mental retardation, including Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome. They also cause learning and behavioral disorders, such as autism...
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/developmentaldisabilities.h... www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/developmentaldisabilities.html
The mission of the UCLA Mental Retardation Research Center is to elucidate the molecular, cellular and behavioral mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of ...
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In this investigation, a review of six applied research and special education journals over an 11-year period was conducted to determine the extent to which information about drug regimens of participants was provided. ... Mental Retardation [drug therapy]
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/3205936
Although this method of research is expensive and time consuming, it has the advantage of allowing investigators to learn how people actually behave in a variety of contexts and to grasp the meaning these activities have for them. ... Mental Retardation [psychology]
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/6731487
A major rationale for genome sequencing is the promise of understanding human disorders, as articles in Genome Research often remind us. ... This month, in a report on recent progress in mental retardation (MR) research, Jozef Gécz and John Mulley (University of Adelaide) explain how advances in human genome sequencing...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000217083111.htm
Welcome to the Children's Hospital Boston Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center ... The Children's Hospital Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC) is one of the oldest centers of its kind in the United States.
www.iddrc.org/