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HYPERKINETIC DISORDERS IN SEVEN‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN WITH PERCEPTUAL, MOTOR AND ATTENTIONAL DEFICITS
Author(s) -
Gillberg Christopher,
Carlstrom Gunilla,
Rasmussen Peder
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00572.x
Subject(s) - hyperkinesis , psychology , psychosocial , population , perception , developmental psychology , hyperkinesia , audiology , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , environmental health
Summary One hundred and forty‐one seven‐year‐old Swedish children took part in an extensive neuropsychiatric study involving total population samples of children who had shown perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in pre‐school, and blindly examined comparison children. The present paper reports on generalized hyper‐kinesis, i.e. hyperactivity in the child in all of three different assessment settings. About a third of children diagnosed according to strict criteria as suffering from ‘Minimal Brain Dysfunction’ showed generalized hyperkinesis. In children without perceptual‐motor deficits, hyperkinesis was very much rarer. A total population frequency for generalized hyperkinesis in the range of 1–3% is reported as probable. Heredity for delayed maturation, non‐optimal pre‐, peri‐ and neonatal factors and adverse psychosocial factors were found to interact in the shaping of the disorder.