Treatment of A Boy with Idiopathic Mental Retardation: From Uneducable to Educable

Two Robertsonian translocations in a boy with mental retardation.

A survey of patients with mental retardation of unknown origin

Introduction: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is one of the most prevalent genetic causes of developmental disability, representing the most frequent form of inherited severe cognitive deficit. The present study was undertaken to investigate FXS and its prevalence in moderate mentally retarded people in patients. Materials and methods: Nineteen people with moderate mental retardation (MR) who wer...

Brief report: haloperidol treatment of trichotillomania in a boy with autism and mental retardation.

The DSM-III-R (American Psychological Association [APA], 1987) defines trichotillomania as an impulse control disorder characterized by the recurrent failure to resist impulses to pull out one's own hair. The diagnosis is not made if hair pulling is associated with inflammation or is in response to a delusion or hallucination. While its exact prevalence is not known (Krishnan, Davidson, & Gujar...

The effective of Vestibular stimulation on Improve motor skills in children educable mental retardation with developmental coordination disorder

Background and Aim: Children need to have appropriate sensory stimulation, sensory stimulation improve motor skills and competence for the children to school. Such as of these stimulations is vestibular stimulation. Many of the educable mentally disability child are the poor motor coordination and balance that some of these children, who are known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD). T...

"Idiopathic" mental retardation and new chromosomal abnormalities

Mental retardation is a heterogeneous condition, affecting 1-3% of general population. In the last few years, several emerging clinical entities have been described, due to the advent of newest genetic techniques, such as array Comparative Genomic Hybridization. The detection of cryptic microdeletion/microduplication abnormalities has allowed genotype-phenotype correlations, delineating recogni...