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What is the name of the mental illness that make brain stop growing after 5 years old?
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∙ 15y ago
It is obviously a severe form of mental retardation of organic cause. The popular idea was the (Moron) had or has had an intellectual horizon of an average five-year old child, some are relatively brighter.
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