title: Prenatal diagnosis of mental retardation and its implications.
abstract: Prenatal diagnostic procedures and their implications are reviewed with particular reference to mental retardation. The subject has biomedical, psychosocial, ethical, and legal ramifications, and consideration is given to each of these. These issues require the attention of psychiatrists because of emotional stresses, anxieties, and conflicts engendered by the circumstances under which consideration of prenatal diagnostic procedures becomes relevant, by the undertakings themselves, and by the complex and sensitive decisions that may subsequently need to be made.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis