Intellectual disability is a condition in which your brain doesn’t develop properly or function within the normal range. Learn about symptoms and causes.

A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities, new research has shown.

Scientists have uncovered a rare genetic cause of intellectual disability in a historically overlooked part of the human genome: so-called junk DNA. This knowledge could someday help to diagnose some ...

Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people. And they hope their discovery leads to a ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and collaborators at the University of Bristol, KU Leuven, and the NIHR BioResource, have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused ...

Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered a new genetic defect which causes a form of intellectual disability; a finding that will improve screening programmes and help to end a ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new genetic syndrome of obesity, over-eating, mental and behavioural problems in six families, from across the world. Dr Siddharth Banka, ...

A team of Australian and Norwegian researchers have found what they think could be one of the commonest causes of intellectual disability in males. Norman Swan: Welcome to the program. Today on The ...

FILE - This microscope image shows the 46 human chromosomes, blue, with telomeres appearing as white pinpoints. Scientists have found the genetic cause of a neurodevelopmental disorder that they ...

Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered a new genetic defect which causes a form of intellectual disability; a finding that will improve screening programmes and help to end a ...