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 ...

Research Highlight Published: January 2003 Neurological disorders A shortcut to mental retardation Juan Carlos López Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4, 7 (2003) Cite this article ...

Siblings of adults with mental retardation were contrasted with siblings of adults with serious mental illness with respect to (1) the pervasiveness of the impact of the brother or sister on the ...

Rockefeller University. "Loss of epigenetic regulators causes mental retardation." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 January 2010. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 01 / 100114225326.htm>.

It has been postulated that both idiopatic fetal growth retardation (FGR) and FGR associated with pre-eclampsia (PE) share common pathophysiologic alterations (Wallenburg, 1988).The aim of this ...

Laboratory-scale column tests were conducted to investigate the retardation of volatile organic compound (VOC) movement through a soil-bentonite (SB) slurry cutoff wall material amended with ground ...

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

Presidential candidate Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) is catching flak from the disabilities community for using the word "retardation" just after upsetting medical experts with her comments ...