The study was carried out in 25 mentally retarded children and compared with equal number of normal children. They were subjected to detailed psychiatric evaluation and dental examination. The dental anomalies were corroborated with cephalometric analysis of lateral cephalograms. It was concluded that all mentally retarded children had some dental abnormality in them in form of dental malocclus...

No significant biochemical or radiological features of vitamin D deficiency were found in groups of juvenile and adult epileptics and control groups of nonepileptic patients in hospitals for the mentally retarded. There was evidence of hepatic enzyme induction in patients on anticonvulsants, in that urinary D-glucaric acid concentration and excretion were raised. No effect was found of prolonge...

This article is a rejoinder to the Partlow Committee's Common Sense in the Habilitation of Mentally Retarded Persons: A Reply to Menolascino and McGee. (Mental Retardation 1981, Vol. 19, pp. 221-225) In the rejoinder the authors argue that the proposed Partlow program of enriched living is a return to custodial care for severely mentally retarded persons and that the Partlow Committee's underst...

introduction: epilepsy is the most serious and prevalent neural disorder during childhood which its pervalance is increasing. the combination of epilepsy and mental ratardation leads to a considerable challenge and an economic load on the health system. the aim of this cross – sectional study was to identify the prevalence and monitoring of epilepsy among  6 to 21 years old mentally retarded st...

Haptoglobin phenotype frequencies for 887 unselected mentally retarded patients were within the range reported for normal European populations. Of these sera, 2% initially classified as anhaptoglobinemic by subjective appraisal of starch-gel electropherograms were subsequently shown to be hypohaptoglobinemic. This frequency of hypohaptoglobinemia is similar to that reported for normal populatio...

Die mees doeltreffende sorg vir die geestesvertraagde is die omvattende gesinsgeoriënteerde sorg van die multidisiplinêre span. As lid van hierdie span is die gemeenskapsverpleegkundige besig met die voorkoming van geestesver­ traagdheid en die bevordering van normalisering deur stimulering van gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid en die bantering van individuele gevalle. Die oogmerk van gemeenskapsverplee...

to 0.294)Affective disorders0.0910.040(6)(—0.325 to 0.421)Adjustment disorders0.5230.298(7)(—0.067 to 0.766)Anxiety disorders0.5630.369(7)(—0.069 to 0.577)Inappropriate mental0.4040.304adjustment (7)(—0.3 12 to 0.45 1)Somatoform disorders0.6030.281(6)(0.239 to 0.556)Personality disorders0.5090.3 17(7)(—0.028 to 0.523)Factor 1: affective0.6930.342(14)(—0.273 to 0.613)Factor 2: somato...

Mental retardation denotes sub-average intellectual functioning, based on IQ, i.e. the inability of normal learning, accompanied by behavioral and developmental disorders. Persons with impairments (cognitive, motor, sensory or psychiatric) have often been, both through human history and today victims of discrimination and deprived of their basic human rights, both in the public and the private ...