An adult with mental retardation who commits a murder should be held legally accountable (assuming the retardation is not so profound as to render him or her incompetent to stand trial).

A team of Harvard doctors has discovered a new hereditary disease, caused by an enzyme deficiency, which leads to mental retardation. Children afflicted with the disease exhibit a built-in ...

A janitor employed by Mesa Public Schools was arrested on suspicion of child pornography on Wednesday, court records show.

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An international team of researchers has provided a genetic diagnosis for 30 individuals whose condition was undiagnosed for years despite extensive ...

Down syndrome—In most cases caused by a third chromosome 21, Down syndrome results in mental retardation and other abnormalities. Children with Down syndrome have a widely recognized ...

Waveplates and retardation plates are optical elements with two principal axes, one slow and one fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. Their ...

1,2 Taking into account these issues and considering mental retardation (MR) as a paradigm of clinical genetics, we aimed to explore HCPs' and mothers' knowledge, perceptions and attitudes about ...

Newborn screening is a fundamental right for every child, crucial for early diagnosis and intervention of preventable ...

It is one of the common alternatives chosen by couples to conceive, especially in cases of blocked fallopian tubes in females ...

Learn how researchers cracked a genetic mystery, diagnosing undiagnosed diseases by identifying FLVCR1 mutations.