Patient's question:
My child has always had poor reaction time, poor memory, and low intelligence since childhood. Their simple thinking prevents them from attending school normally. My friend said it might be due to low intelligence. Please ask: How can low intelligence be treated effectively?Doctor's answer:
Hello; Causes of intellectual disability; include biomedical factors and sociopsychocultural reasons. The former refers to various adverse factors encountered during brain development (prenatal and perinatal periods) that prevent the brain from reaching its expected level of growth and development, ultimately affecting intelligence. The latter refers to factors such as cultural deprivation, improper upbringing, and sensory deprivation that may lead to insufficient or inappropriate acquisition of postnatal information, thereby impacting intellectual functioning. Treatment; If the cause of the intellectual disability has been identified, such as chronic diseases, poisoning, long-term malnutrition, hearing and vision impairments, efforts should be made to remove the cause as much as possible to partially or fully restore intellectual functioning.