A STUDY OF THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MONGOLS, by Valerie A. Cowie, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.M.: New York: Pergamon Press, 1970, 109 pp., $8.00

Abstract

This book, an abridged version of the author's Ph.D. thesis at the University of London, appears as the first of a new series of monographs published by the Institute for Research into Mental Retardation. Dr. Cowie studied the development of 79 mongol children through the first 10 months of life by neurological and psychological testing, observation of the pattern of evolution, and dissolution of the early neurological reflexes. Particular attention was given to muscle tone, traction response, Moro reflex, palmar and plantar grasp, tendon reflexes, and placing reaction.