Intellectual functioning and mental health intersect in complex ways across different demographic, cultural and clinical groups. Intellectual functioning refers to the spectrum of cognitive abilities ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral arguments in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear ...

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

Months after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that advocates said could have major implications for intellectual disability and how it is defined, the justices said never mind. The ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

Involvement of different brain dystrophin isoforms was assessed in 3 groups of young males diagnosed with DMD. On their first assessment, 43 of the 70 patients with DMD had normal intelligence ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) – A House bill that would require people convicted in death-penalty cases to submit evidence of an IQ below 75 to claim an intellectual disability defense advanced in a ...

Lotte Global Logistics announced Friday that it had successfully completed an exchange event for individuals with borderline intellectual functioning, held jointly with the Seoul Metropolitan ...