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Sleep Studies of Adults with Severe or Profound Mental Retardation and Epilepsy.
Espie, Colin A.; Paul, Audrey; McFie, Joyce; Amos, Pat; Hamilton, David; McColl, John H.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1998
A study of the sleep patterns of 28 people with severe or profound mental retardation and epilepsy found atypical sleep stages with significant depletion of REM sleep and a predominance of indiscriminate non-REM sleep. Sleep diaries completed by caregivers reveal lengthy sleep periods, especially among those with profound mental retardation.…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Epilepsy, Multiple Disabilities
Analysis of Behavior State Conditions and Associated Environmental Variables among Students with Profound Handicaps.
Guess, Doug; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1993
State conditions and environmental variables were measured over a 5-hour period for 25 students (ages 3-21) with profound and multiple handicaps. Results showed the presence of state sequence patterns, short state change periods, and a relatively small amount of association between specific behavior states and environmental factors and events.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Fixed Sequence
Developmental Differences in the Symptomatology of Psychiatric Inpatients with and without Mild Mental Retardation.
Glick, Marion; Zigler, Edward – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995
The symptomatology of 93 psychiatric inpatients with mild mental retardation was compared with that of a matched sample of inpatients without mental retardation. Patients with retardation displayed more outwardly directed and less inwardly directed symptoms; more symptoms involving action than thought; and psychotic symptom pictures which more…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Mental Disorders, Mild Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities