ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01348.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01349.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.In a study of 99 long‐stay hospital residents aged 65 years and over, two thirds were functioning in the moderately to mildly handicapped range, two thirds were under the age of 75 years and there was an overall female to male ratio of 2:1. As in the general population, mobility problems, a tendency to falls and fractures, cardiorespiratory disease, deteriorating eyesight, and hearing and urinary incontinence were commonly found; all increased in frequency with age. A fifth exhibited psychiatric disorder: the commonest conditions, as expected, were the psychoses and dementia. It is suggested that retirement provision for the elderly mentally handicapped should be made within the mental handicap services and that the small group with significant geriatric problems would be most appropriately cared for within the generic geriatric services. A plea is made for evaluative studies before large scale implementation of resettlement programmes for the elderly mentally handicapped in hospita

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01350.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.A survey of self‐injurious behaviour in people receiving services for mental handicap was carried out in one health region. Six hundred and sixteen adults and children were found to have engaged in self‐injurious behaviour sufficient to have caused tissue damage in the previous 4 months and 596 of these were screened. Half were resident in hospital while 28% were in non‐hospital residential care and the remainder (21%) were living at home. Nearly one‐fifth (19%) showed self‐injurious behaviour, of one or more types, at a rate of at least once per hour and a further 13% wore protective or restraining devices for all or part of the day or night. Only 2% were enrolled on formal psychological treatment programmes but nearly half were receiving psychotropic drugs (excluding anticon

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01351.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.Two groups of mentally handicapped residents were studied consisting of 32 epileptics on anti‐epileptic medication and 32 non‐epileptic controls. The epileptic group showed a significantly low serum folate level compared with the non‐epileptic control group. Serum vitamin B12and behaviour rating did not show any significant difference between two groups. Comparison of patients receiving phenytoin and those who were not showed significantly lower serum folate in the sub‐group receiving phenytoin, but there was no significant difference between the sub‐groups with respect to vitamin B12or behaviour probl

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01352.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.The effect of high concentrations of negative air ions on a dichotic digits task was investigated in 19 mentally retarded individuals. Subjects were assigned randomly to an ion or to an unmodified‐air placebo condition under double‐blind testing. Left and right ears were precued for report order and this order was reversed for the second set of trials. Negative ions promoted greater left hemisphere lateralization on the first set of trials, and enhanced recall when switching to the opposite channels, in the second set of trials. However, the ion‐induced REA occurred at the expense of selective attention to the left channel and superior left ear recall after the right ear first condition is an anomalous dichotic listening pattern. Such paradoxical results suggest that negative ions are not necessarily beneficial or detrimental to processing. Negative ions may increase arousal, in this case amplifying a time‐phased, information processing disorder in the retarded characterized by excessive right hemisphere inhibition during early processing of receptive speech and diffuse interhemispheric excitatory activation during later pro

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01353.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.The proposition that linger print variability between individuals might be reduced by the absence of an X‐diromosome in Turner's syndrome was rejected. In the present study of 58 XO patients, aged 15–50 years, relatives of several cases, unrelated female control samples and three unrelated male samples were investigated. The higher mean value of the TRC among patients supported the hypothesis forwarded by Pcnruse that an added X‐ or Y‐chromosome reduces the TRC and a missing one increasing it. The figures do not speak against the hypothesis that genes affecting the TRC are located on the X‐chromosome.A summary of the major dermatoglyphic investigations in Turner's syndrome is

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01354.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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ABSTRACT.This paper reviews the occurrence of symptoms of intestinal obstruction in mentally handicapped people. A retrospective study was done on all residents dying in mental handicap hospitals over a 7‐year period. It was noticed that people dying of intestinal obstruction were younger, male, gave a history of constipation, other gastrointestinal problems and dietary indiscretio

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01355.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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ABSTRACT.A family is reported in which the mother and 4 of her 6 children are affected by a constellation of abnormalities including mental handicap, abnormal facies, short stature, soft fleshy hands with sapering fingers and skeletal abnormalities. The family is believed to represent a further group of individuals with Coffin‐Lowry syndrome. Additionally, one affected daughter has symptoms suggestive of schizophrenia and one affected son has severe sensorineural deafnes

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01356.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT.A 54‐year‐old profoundly mentally retarded female patient with phenylketonuria and a severe behaviour problem was treated with a restricted protein and high energy diet. After several weeks of dietary intervention the patient's behaviour improved significan

ISSN:0964-2633    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01357.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY