Neuropsychological profiles of persons with mental retardation and dementia.

Weak-Minded Responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law and Egyptian Law

In Iran's criminal law, humans are not only divided into wise or insane they are also persons who, on the one hand, do not fall under Article 149 of the Islamic Penal Code in the definition of insane persons and on the other hand, they are not wise, the rational age of these people is lower than their child's physical age that Affected by mental disorder and mental retardation. Article 91 of th...

Relationship Between Neuropsychological and Physical Environmental Perception in Patients With Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Objectives The current study examines the features of the physical environment affecting environmental perception and tries to explain paradigm of architecture based on the neuropsychological features. This paper investigates the relationship between the two aspects of the physical and neuropsychological environment in the patients with dementia Alzheimer’s type in order to meet the needs of th...

A Simple Strategy for the Qualitative Assessment of Learning Capacity Of

A simple procedure for evaluating the learning capacities of individuals with severe cognitive deficits is described. The procedure is based theoretically on a modification of the learning hierarchy described by Thomas (1980; 1993; 1996), and it examines simple observational learning, simple instrumental conditioning, learning a concurrent object discrimination, and mastering a reversal or seve...

The Diagnosis of Dementia in Persons with Mental Retardation: Validating Methods of Assessment

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...