PERCEPTUAL, MOTOR AND ATTENTIONAL DEFICITS IN SEVEN‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN: NEUROLOGICAL AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 25 (3), 315-333
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1983.tb13765.x
Abstract
The results of neurological assessments of a representative sample of 7 yr old Swedish children with perceptual, motor and attentional deficits and their controls (n = 141) are presented. Among those children diagnosed as suffering from minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), the majority showed neurodevelopmental deviations indicative of the clumsy child syndrome, and 20% had slight signs of choreoathetosis, diparesis, hemiparesis or ataxia. Other associated neurodevelopmental deviations are considered. The correlation between neurological findings and background factors is discussed: the MBD group had higher scores for various organic background factors than the comparison children, and the children with neurological syndromes had somewhat higher scores than the remaining children with MBD. The difficulties in distinguishing MBD from mental retardation, cerebral palsy and childhood psychoses is clearly illustrated. Long-term follow-up will indicate the prognostic significance of these findings.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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