The Office of Legal Counsel opinion released Thursday said states aren't required by law to integrate mentally disabled ...

Opinion: Doctors' input on how to weigh cognitive disability in death penalty cases can be helpful, but characterizing such ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has removed a man from death row for the first time, saving the life of an inmate with intellectual ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

Scientists have identified the genetic basis of a disorder causing intellectual disability, affecting approximately one in 20,000 young people. The disorder is characterized by symptoms including ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Texas death row inmate’s request to present evidence that he is ineligible for execution because of his intellectual disability, despite rare support between ...

Children of a parent with alcohol or drug use disorder have a greater risk of intellectual disability, even if the problem only lies with the father, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report.

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has permitted a 'Total Abdominal Hysterectomy' to be performed on a 23-year-old woman ...

The Karnataka High Court judgment last week was the latest instance of courts’ intervention in decisions that often involve ...

In this study published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers generated and analyzed Rp58 heterozygous mice as a model of RP58/ZBTB18 haploinsufficiency and were able to clarify the following four ...

The court's action means Victor Saldaño is likely to be executed even though both defense and state experts determined he was ...