title: [Early childhood brain damage and neuroses in adults].
abstract: Following some introductory remarks on the importance of multicausal factors in the genesis and development of neurotic disorders it is especially the part played by early-childhood cerebral lesions that is underscored by the author. The importance of this lesion to the development of neuroses in adults continues to be an open question. Within the framework of an attempt made with a view to finding an answer to this question the author presents the results of an analysis of 300 case histories of patients of the neurosis ward. After a description of an analysis of 22 patients diagnosed as having "neurosis", who had suffered from an early-childhood cerebral lesion, and of a comparison with a control group of anxiety-neurosis patients certain characteristics of these patients and of the clinical course of their disease are discussed. On the basis of this analysis there is then formulated a hypothetical model of the development of neurotic disturbances in the course of the lives of some persons with early-childhood cerebral lesions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D011247:Pregnancy; D012306:Risk; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Frühkindliche Hirnschädigungen und Neurosen bei Erwachsenen.