The following article by S. W. Hardwick, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M., has been compiled from views expressed in a report on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Law relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, prepared by the Group Medical Committee of the Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee, which administers a hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders and a Mental Deficiency ...

care and training of high grade mental defectives could not be better carried out within the framework of the general social services rather than through a special mental deficiency service. I shall try to show very briefly how I think this could be accomplished, and why I favour the contraction rather than the expansion of the mental deficiency services. First, then, to whom do the mental defi...

Creatine deficiency syndromes are a newly described group of inborn errors of creatine synthesis (arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT) deficiency and guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency) and of creatine transport (creatine transporter (CRTR) deficiency). The common clinical feature of creatine deficiency syndromes is mental retardation and epilepsy suggesting main involve...