Psychomotor retardation can affect your thought processes, body movements, eye movements, and facial expressions. Psychomotor retardation was discovered more than a century ago.

Hypoparathyroidism, retardation, and dysmorphism (HRD) syndrome is the first reported disease caused by a defect in the tubulin folding and assembly pathway. We aimed to summarize our experience ...

Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual ...

Despite decades of research, mental retardation remains an amorphous concept defined not in black and white but in ever-changing shades of gray. As recently as 40 years ago, the condition was ...

In the 18 states with bans on executing convicted criminals who are mentally retarded, defining mental retardation can be a life and death issue. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Joe Shapiro ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is often divided, but on one little-noticed point last week, it was unanimous: the term "mental retardation" is no longer appropriate to use. This may seem trivial and way ...

Following a father's determined advocacy for his daughter with an intellectual disability, Indian Railways has replaced the term \"mental retardation\" ...

Eva Aguirre, executive director of the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation, is noticeably upbeat as she makes the rounds on the 6.7-acre campus, greeting clients by name and sharing ...

In a case of life imitating art, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) reported today that they had successfully reversed mental retardation in mice, just as scientists ...

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States that once used “retardation” in agency names were dropping it by the 1990s, and efforts accelerated in recent years. (Like New York, Rhode Island has introduced legislation to do so.) ...