" In my report last year, I discussed somewhat fully both the principles and methods of dealing with children who are mentally retarded or feeble-minded. It was shown that for practical purposes they fall into three groups:?(a) those who are dull (mental impairment) or backward (their normal development hindered by untoward circumstances); (b) the mentally defective who are in some measure educ...

Maternal sensitivity in mothers with mild intellectual disabilities is related to experiences of maltreatment and predictive of child attachment: A matched-comparison study Lene Lindberg, Mari Fransson, Tommie Forslund, Lydia Springer, and Pehr Granqvist. Author note Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Upp...

I find this to be a stimulating, if not an important piece of work, and propose to give it a fairly exhaustive review. It is concerned, as the title states, with the range of human capacities. " When we compare the mathematical ability of an Einstein, or the scientific intuition of a Pasteur or the poetic gifts of a Shakespeare, with the correlative abilities of average men, let alone those of ...

Many researchers have studied the population of individuals with mild mental retardation (MIMR) as if it is a clear entity. Few researchers have investigated potential subtypes within the MIMR population. The purpose of the present study was to investigate which subtypes can be identified on the basis of intellectual, adaptive and behavioral functioning. Seventy-three individuals with MIMR were...

The goal of this study was to identify a source of natural plant compounds with inhibitory activity against pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV). We showed, using a half-leaf assay, that murrayafoline-A (1) and isomahanine (2) isolated from the aerial parts of Glycosmis stenocarpa have inhibitory activity against PMMoV through curative, inactivation, and protection effects. Using a leaf-disk assay,...

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are three to four times less often employed compared to their non-disabled peers. Evidence for factors associated with work participation of young adults with ID is limited. Furthermore, studies on predictors for sustainable work participation among young adults with ID is lacking altogether. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whi...

Progress in humanity is stimulated by individuals, however much organised society takes over the responsibility afterwards. In this respect Harold Nelson Burden was a powerful individual in establishing in this country the official acceptance of responsibilty for the care of mental defectives. He was a member of the 1904 Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the feeble-minded, and out of ...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an etiological heterogeneous condition characterized by cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level but that does not interfere notably with activities of daily life, subjects perform more poorly on a variety of cognitive, functional and behavioral measures than normal person of the same age, but the cognitive decline is...