A study is one of the first to show the life-changing benefits of genome-wide sequencing for children with certain kinds of intellectual disability, report scientists. A study published in the New ...

Brain disorders that cause intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders may share common defects despite having different genetic causes, a new study has found. The findings suggest that ...

Children of a parent with alcohol or drug use disorder have a greater risk of intellectual disability, even if the problem only lies with the father, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report.

(Medical Xpress)—University of Adelaide researchers have taken a step forward in unravelling the causes of a commonly inherited intellectual disability, finding that a genetic mutation leads to a ...

Earlier in 2015, a student unsuccessfully challenged Virginia Commonwealth University’s policy of not allowing students with intellectual disabilities, enrolled in their ACE-IT program, to live in ...

A newly discovered genetic mutation leads to a reduction in certain proteins in the brain which causes intellectual disabilities. The ARX (Aristaless related homeobox) mutagen is one of the four most ...

One of society’s greatest medical challenges is to understand and develop effective treatments for disorders of intellectual disability (ID). Around 2–3 percent of the global population meet the ...