There are some cases of severe mental retardation and some of small head size without apparent mental retardation.

The insane and persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence

Mental retardation developed from this disease usually leads to coma.

However, the decision did not lay down how mental retardation should be defined (although the majority quoted the definition used by the American Association of Mental Retardation and the American Psychiatric Association, both of which stressed significant sub average mental functioning ).

Iodine deficiency disorders are the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

(d) Eliminating the death penalty for persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence, whether at the stage of sentence or execution.

One important effect of exposure to radiation in utero is a dose related increase in mental impairment, up to and including severe mental retardation.

All these children came to our clinic with a diagnosis of autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, language problems.

All these children came to our clinic with a diagnosis of autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, language problems.

The principle was developed during the seventies, especially by Wolfensberger in Canada through the National Institute on Mental Retardation (NIMR).

An excess of severe mental retardation was observed in some children exposed to radiation in utero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To avoid iodine deficiency a common cause of mental retardation in children Myanmar had greatly increased iodized salt consumption to cover most households.

This fact is important for the interpretation of the epidemiologically observed mental retardation induced by radiation, which is discussed in section II.B.1.

The radiation induced shift, for a dose of 1 Sv, would result in severe mental retardation in about 40 per cent of the exposed individuals.

Over the last 15 years, UNICEF has led a global effort to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders, the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

This review suggests that the safeguard to protect the insane and persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence from capital punishment will need to be reformulated to be in line with the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights to include any form of mental disorder .

The region to the left of two standard deviations from the average, that is, values less than 70 IQ points, corresponds to the clinical designation of severe mental retardation.

As discussed in chapter I, section A.2 (a), the mechanism of mental retardation induction is thought to be the production of a dose dependent lack of functional connections of neurons in the brain cortex.

If any those of you who are older in the audience know that when I was a child we understood that a child born with a cleft palate was born with what we called mental retardation.

But it appears that this is only insofar as mental retardation falls within the concept of abnormality of mind, defined as a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or inherent causes or induced by disease or injury .

While no mental retardation was observed in cases where exposure occurred before 8 weeks after conception, a sensitive period was identified, 8 to 15 weeks, followed by a substantially less sensitive period of 16 to 25 weeks from conception.

The induction of mental retardation is thought to be the result of the impaired proliferation, differentiation, migration and connection of neural cells at the time when the relevant tissue (brain cortex) is being structured, namely, the 8 to 15 week period after conception in humans.

Mental cruelty?

Mental health practitioners A mental health practitioner is a health worker who offers services for the purpose of improving the mental health of individuals or treating mental illness.

Technology s Mental Frontier

Mental Health Legislation.

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Mental cruelty. Naturally.

For mental defectives.

Unless she's mental.

I could either deny my mental illness or embrace my mental skillness.

I could either deny my mental illness or embrace my mental skillness.

Facing Down Mental Illness

Mental Health for All

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My mental state hypomanic.

This is mental illness.

For example mental arithmetic.

A harmless mental illness.

My mental illness well, I'm not even going to talk about my mental illness.

Two words were enough for a Lebanese guy to judge a woman sitting in his restaurant of retardation and ignorance.

Try reversing Golyshev s mental exercise.

Mental Health Gender Based Violence

(a) Physical or mental harm

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