Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental deficiency genetically determined? Probably so, says California Institute of Technology's famed Chemist Linus Pauling. Last week the Ford Foundation announced that it was betting $450,000 (to be spread over five years) on Pauling's hunch...
...Pauling believes that mental deficiency may be similarly caused by defective molecules. Of all mental char acteristics, intelligence is the one most easily measured and least subject to change. Studies have shown that the children of the intelligent are more likely to be intelligent than those of the unintelligent. Pauling would like to carry this proposition several steps farther. "We believe," he says, "that significant progress can be made in the attack on mental deficiency by ... fundamental research employing the most powerful techniques of modern chemistry ... to understand the causes and workings of certain abnormal molecules...
...allow him to change his soiled clothes. One boy had been to 17 schools by the time he was 16. Others were regularly beaten or mistreated by their parents or foster parents. A good many were the victims of another sort of tyranny: overindulgent parents who pampered them into mental paralysis...
...died, the Lancet frankly discussed the King's ailments (Buerger's disease, lung cancer and arteriosclerosis) and the immediate cause of his death (coronary thrombosis). It has also reported candidly about the low standards of general practice under the British National Health Service, about bad conditions in mental hospitals, about the problems of the aged...
...Clinic, organized in 1953, is now studying 50 retarded children under five, observing their activities and actually treating some afflictions. For Mongolism, however, the commonest single cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect...