The main reasons given for not returning to work were the occurrence of symptoms with exercise, impairment of intellectual function, and approaching retirement age [ 123].
Exposure of the unborn to environmental chemicals such as methylmercury, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) not only increases the risk of developing several diseases later in life (Grandjean 2008) but also results in impairment of intellectual function for life (Carpenter 2006).
Still, reports of cerebellar patients also often describe impairments of intellectual functioning and emotional or psychiatric disturbances.
1. Is there a specific neuropsychological profile associated with DMD/BMD? of overall level of intellectual function or degree of physical impairment.
Secondly, parent reports of intellectual disability were not validated by a formal test of intellectual function.
The subjects had a range of intellectual functioning.
W.W. had impairments of general intellectual function, episodic memory, naming and executive skills, with mild weakness of visuoperceptual skills and well preserved literacy, arithmetical and visuospatial skills.
Most of the relevant research has been focused on the long-term effects of radiotherapy because these are more general and severe, involving attention, memory, speed of mental processing, visuo-motor coordination [ 7- 10], and a marked progressive impairment of overall intellectual functioning [ 8, 11].
A "severely mentally impaired" person is defined as someone living with a severe impairment of intellectual and social functioning, which appears to be permanent - such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, learning difficulties or following a stroke.
Dementia is a disorder characterized by an impairment of intellectual and communicative functioning, with high impact among elderly people.
All the participants belonging to this cohort were diagnosed with MCI based on clinical criteria [ 4, 26], which included the presence of subjective memory complaints from the patient and family, objective memory impairment, preserved general intellectual function (assessed clinically), absence of significant functional impairment, and absence of clinical dementia.
