Moreover, we evaluate only the changes in intellectual functioning but not the changes in adaptive functioning.
Toxic emissions from the Exide Technologies plant have the potential to create "neurological changes, specifically a decrease in intellectual function in children," said Jean Ospital, health effects officer for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Exposure to arsenic (As) in drinking water has been associated with a decline in intellectual function in children.
Manganese is a neurotoxin associated with learning disabilities and deficits in intellectual function in children (Zoni and Lucchini 2013).
All AD patients had a history of progressive decline in intellectual function without focal motor or sensory features.
This suggests this ventral subdivision of the cingulum, linking structures within the limbic system such as hippocampus and posterior cingulate cortex, is involved early in the disease process, and may account for some of the more subtle changes in general intellectual function seen in early bvFTD.
The severity of hepatic encephalopathy is graded with the West Haven Criteria; this is based on the level of impairment of autonomy, changes in consciousness, intellectual function, behavior, and the dependence on therapy.
It is characterized by widespread decline in intellectual functions such as memory, communication skills, performing day-to-day activities, reasoning, and changes in social behaviour [ 5].
Due to the heterogeneity of ASD symptoms, communication deficits, and impairments in intellectual functioning, assessing symptoms of psychopathology is complicated.
Outcomes of concussion in children could be devastating later in life with observed deficits in intellectual functioning and language acquisition.
