Minimal brain dysfunction in adolescent and young adult psychiatric inpatients.
This paper presents data on a study of 100 consecutive young adult psychiatric admissions to Horsham Hospital, to determine the incidence of minimal brain dysfunction in this population, to define the subcategories of common psychiatric presentation, and to compare these data with those from the companion study conducted by our research group of fifty consecutive adolescent psychiatric admissions, reported by Horowitz, 1981.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology