Book Review: Tredgold's Mental Retardation

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ECT in mental retardation: a review.

The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in patients with mental retardation and a psychiatric disorder seems to be infrequent, and controlled studies are not available. We reviewed the literature on the use of ECT in mental retardation, using Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. References were checked and ECT experts consulted. The reported case studies were examined on patients' char...

Mental Retardation: A Review of Research

Mental Retardation

This small book is the first of a series of occasional papers which are to be published under the auspices of the Institute for Research into Mental Retardation, and its author is the chairman of the Institute's Research Committee. In the preface, it is said to be aimed at an intelligent lay audience and it is suggested that 'it will be read with interest and profit by workers in the field of m...

Mental Retardation

title. A book on molecular pharmacology should be concerned primarily with drug-receptor interactions in terms of small molecule-biopolymer interactions. Yet, this text discusses neither protein structure nor nucleic acid structure and minimizes discussions of drug induced conformational changes. In other words, this volume is a good textbook of nonmolecular pharmacology. In the introduction th...