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Mental retardation is the current terminology of the nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association (DMS II) and has replaced the previous designations of mental deficiency, feeblemindedness, and mental subnormality.
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Chess, S., Hassibi, M. (1978). Mental Retardation. In: Principles and Practice of Child Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2198-7_13
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