intellectual disability
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But the court offered no bright line definition of what would count as an intellectual disability of sufficient seriousness to take the death penalty off the table.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025
The research team also highlighted an unexpected finding: some participants showed only psychiatric symptoms, even though GRIN2A changes are usually linked to epilepsy or intellectual disability.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025
Clinicians might also be less frequently assigning other labels such as intellectual disability, formally referred to as mental retardation, some data suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
"We are talking, I think, more about individuals with no intellectual disability," she says.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
