The aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between expressed emotion (EE) of key relatives and social development of mentally retarded. 30 children aged between 5-18 years and all 30 children were fulfilling ICD – 10 criteria for mental retardation were taken for the study. One key relative for each mentally retarded children was identified within the age range of 34-45 years. Express...

Haptoglobin phenotype frequencies for 887 unselected mentally retarded patients were within the range reported for normal European populations. Of these sera, 2% initially classified as anhaptoglobinemic by subjective appraisal of starch-gel electropherograms were subsequently shown to be hypohaptoglobinemic. This frequency of hypohaptoglobinemia is similar to that reported for normal populatio...

The study was carried out in 25 mentally retarded children and compared with equal number of normal children. They were subjected to detailed psychiatric evaluation and dental examination. The dental anomalies were corroborated with cephalometric analysis of lateral cephalograms. It was concluded that all mentally retarded children had some dental abnormality in them in form of dental malocclus...

Most epidemiological studies done in different parts of India have shown the prevalence of Mental Retardation (MR) in the general population to vary from 3 to 6 per thousand (Verghese et aL 1973; Nandi et al, 1980). The psychiatrists' attitude towards MR ranges from total indifference to over involvement and the attempt to help the mentally retarded individuals varies from therapeutic nihilism ...