title: [Does slight brain damage in early childhood have significance for adult psychiatry? Results of a catamnestic study].
abstract: Does mild brain damage sustained during early childhood represent a predisposition to particular forms of abnormal mental and/or social development during early adulthood? Selected results yielded by a longitudinal study on 96 former patients who had been diagnosed as suffering from slight brain damage sustained during early childhood are presented. The psychological aspects (intelligence and concentration) and sociological aspects (formal and vocational education, criminality) investigated were found to have been determined to a decisive degree by milieu and social factors. The results are discussed in the theoretical context provided by the acquisition concept with a view to therapeutic considerations.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012917:Social Adjustment
vernacular_title: Hat die leichte frühkindliche Hirnschädigung eine Bedeutung für die Erwachsenenpsychiatrie? - Ergebnisse einer katamnestischen Untersuchung.