Intellectual disability can be caused by a problem that starts any time before a child turns 18 years old – even before birth. It can be caused by injury, disease, or a problem in the brain. For many ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 1% of live births. Thanks to surgical advancements, infants born with ...

Their work has interesting implications for our understanding and treatment development for intellectual disabilities or autism and appears in Neuron. The human brain is notable among mammals for ...

Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals ...

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established in 2013, one of its driving aims was to make disability ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...

brain injury, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, epilepsy, sensory and language disabilities, and spina bifida. What is the prevalence of intellectual and developmental ...

Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of symptoms in children, including seizures, intellectual disability, and even ...