[Early childhood brain damage studied at the selection station].
The present report is based on results obtained from the patient stock at the Gdynia selection point. Between 1960 and 1964 more than one thousand children of school age were examined who because of inadequate progress at school and difficulties in their education were presented to the selection point. In more than 50 percent of the children it was found that the inadequate progress at school was to be attributed to damages to the central nervous system suffered in early childhood. For the patient stock discussed in this report the following causes were found: premature birth, birth damages as a result of a long-drawn-out process of delivery and of forceps delivery connected with respiratory lethargy, etiologically differently conditioned encephalitis and meningitis (also of a parainfectious kind), injuries to the skull connected with concussion of the brain, endocrinic disorders.
D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012931:Social Environment
Frühkindliche Hirnschäden in der Tätigkeit der Selektionsstelle.