Colour Discrimination in Mentally Handicapped Children with Particular Reference to Down's Syndrome

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Brian Stratford ◽  
Kay Mills
Keyword(s):  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
Colour Discrimination ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Handicapped Children

Differential Rates of Psychiatric Disorders in Adults with Down's Syndrome Compared with Other Mentally Handicapped Adults

1992 ◽  
Vol 161 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Collacott ◽  
Sally-Ann Cooper ◽  
Catherine McGrother
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Conduct Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Mental Handicap

The total number of adults with Down's syndrome living in Leicestershire, ascertained by widespread enquiry, was found to be 378. Of these, 371 were matched with adults with mental handicap due to other pathologies, on the basis of age, sex, and type of residence. Those with Down's syndrome were found to have a different spectrum of mental disorders from those without the syndrome. In particular, Down's syndrome patients were more likely to have been diagnosed as having depression and dementia; the controls were more likely to have been diagnosed as suffering from conduct disorder, personality disorder, or schizophrenia/paranoid state. The same proportion of each group had been given a diagnosis of autism.

Prevalence of the Fragile X Syndrome in an Institution for the Mentally Handicapped

1986 ◽  
Vol 148 (6) ◽  
pp. 655-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Primrose ◽  
Rabia El-Matmati ◽  
Elizabeth Boyd ◽  
Christine Gosden ◽  
Marjorie Newton
Keyword(s):  
Fragile X Syndrome ◽  
Fragile X ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Female Patients ◽  
X Cells

In an investigation to find the prevalence of the fragile X (Martin Bell) syndrome in a mental handicap hospital, chromosomal investigations were carried out in 196 males selected out of a total of 512, and also in 20 female patients who were related to some of the selected males. Fragile X cells were found in 41 of the males and two of the females; in 21 of the males it was associated with macro-orchidism. The overall prevalence in the hospital for males (8.0%) ranks this syndrome next in importance to Down's syndrome as a known cause for mental handicap.

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