Tag: Mental
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Mental retardation of genetic origin
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Introduction: Mental retardation (RM) is defined by the existence, before the age of 18, of “intellectual functioning significantly below the average associated with limitations of adaptive functions” (DSM IV-R classification). Standardized tests for the measurement of the intelligence quotient (IQ) are used to quantify the cognitive deficit. Thus, RM is referred to when the IQ is less…
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Pediatric mental disability
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Introduction: Cognitive impairment is one of the most common childhood health problems. Most epidemiological studies in developed countries agree to estimate their frequency at 0.7 to 0.8% of births. This pathology is badly diagnosed, ill explained to the parents and badly helped. The term cognitive “deficit” should be preferred to “delay” because the latter term refers to…
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Mental impairment
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Introduction: Every culture is defined by its behavior towards those who are often minority, who by their difference, innate or acquired, can not be or are not similar to the group as a whole. It is these differences that are often felt to be disturbing, such as an embarrassment for evolution and survival, or even a…
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Potential treatment of anorexia nervosa
According to a study published in late 2012, anorexia nervosa and physical hyperactivity are linked by a common molecular mechanism. This discovery could help develop a treatment for this disorder that affects mostly teenagers. Anorexia nervosa is a terrible eating disorder that causes people who suffer continually fight against hunger. The result is a logical…
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