Sentence examples for retardation but from inspiring English sources

Another, S. S., received diagnoses of multiple behavioral disorders and mild mental retardation, but likewise was never treated.

He dreams of becoming a world-famous scientist who not only cures AIDS, paralysis and mental retardation but also concocts a soap that rejuvenates aging skin.

The condition was once a major cause of mental retardation, but in the 1950's doctors devised a simple treatment for it: dietary intervention.

The thinking was that some of these molecules might be involved in autism and mental retardation, but which ones remained a mystery.

Talking in her office in San Antonio, Ms. Reed, the district attorney, raised doubts about Mr. Cruz's mental retardation but said, "I'm not going to say that he is or he is not".

Defense lawyers acknowledged that Mr. Bell's case was not a clear-cut example of mental retardation, but they said it underscored the difficulty that arises in proving mental retardation when a defendant's I.Q. is borderline.

The resulting nanocomposites exhibited significantly improved thermal stability and fire retardation properties, but similar morphology (i.e., an intercalated exfoliated structure) and rheological properties comparable with EVA nanocomposites containing unmodified organoclays.

This study was designed to increase the diagnostic detection rate for subtelomeric unbalanced chromosomal rearrangements (UCRs) that are believed to cause 3 5% of all cases of mental retardation (MR), but often remain undetected by routine karyotyping because of limited resolution in light microscopy.

Mutations in CASK are associated with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) but, interestingly, some individuals also present with congenital nystagmus and the mutations carried by these individuals map to C-terminal region of CASK (8, 27).

Thus, genomic disorders encompass not only rare multiple congenital anomaly and mental retardation syndromes, but also common and complex traits, such as autism and schizophrenia, as well as other neurobehavioral phenotypes.

However, this same variant has subsequently been observed in an additional individual with mental retardation [ 64], but not in 320 controls with similar ethnic background.