Boosting a neurotransmitter called norepinephrine in sufferers of Down Syndrome could help reverse the condition, which is the most common cause of mental retardation in children...

The medical researchers said examples of ciliopathies include mental retardation, retinal blindness, obesity, polycystic kidney disease, liver fibrosis, ataxia and some forms...

The CDC says high levels of mercury can cause brain damage and mental retardation in children when passed from mother to fetus. Brown's son, Tiyal, has been diagnosed with...

genetic disorders, including mental retardation, dwarfism, deafness and malformation syndromes, as well as common diseases of adulthood, such as heart disease, hypertension...

'' In the four counties neighboring Indian Point, thyroid cancer is 70% above the U.S. rate and newborn hypothyroidism, a cause of mental retardation, is 90% greater than the...

He said that traffic accidents represent an economic obstacle rather than the bad humanitarian and social impacts that case a developmental retardation in the country. AF/AF...

Caravella has a tested IQ of 67, just below the borderline for mental retardation. Seth Miller, executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida, said about 25 percent...

Nearly all of them had an illness related to the nervous system, including mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and other seizure disorders. Years ago experts...

Nearly all of them had an illness related to the nervous system, including mental retardation, cerebral palsy and epilepsy and other seizure disorders. Years ago experts...

At the time, those with mental retardation were often a secret source of shame to their families and were quietly put away in institutions, out of sight and out of mind....