A study finds that female mice using only a maternal X chromosome experience faster brain aging, leading to memory loss.

Researchers aim to continue studying the role of the X chromosome in brain aging, and whether it can explain people’s risk of ...

Tennessee cannot fully staff the six beds funded for those charged with a crime who have an intellectual disability.

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

Intellectual Disability Intellectual disability is marked ... during or after birth; infection; brain malformations; chromosomal abnormalities; genetic abnormalities; seizure disorders ...

He founded what became the state’s largest provider of caregivers for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities ...

T he way people with disabilities are treated is backsliding in the U.S., advocates say. Cruel names are slung around without a second thought; fingers are pointed; “jokes” are whispered just out of ...

With its first foray into medical devices, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is hoping to help children with autism spectrum disorder get diagnosed and into care earlier in life.

There’s been some interesting research by Dr. Kelcie Ralph at Rutgers around children who grow up without a driving caregiver ...

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X ...