A major challenge in testing new therapies for people with intellectual disability is finding accurate tools to measure whether the intervention or medication works. A new study by researchers at the ...

Persons with cognitive disabilities may have difficulty with various types of mental tasks. Intellectual disabilities, are a group of disorders defined by diminished cognitive and adaptive development ...

In this study published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers generated and analyzed Rp58 heterozygous mice as a model of RP58/ZBTB18 haploinsufficiency and were able to clarify the following four ...

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A few years ago, Noah Cox noticed something about some of the people he represented in court. They struggled to communicate, think logically or problem solve. "I wanted to know their account of what ...

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Noah Cox, a lawyer in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, formed the neurocognitive disorder team built on the premise that prison is not always the right place for someone with this kind ...

For more than 30 years, a movement has been underway in the United States to create campus programs for students with intellectual disabilities to pursue higher education and reap learning and career ...