hyperkinetic syndrome

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hyperkinetic syndrome - a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders

ADD, ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, MBD, minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction

hyperactivity - a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement

syndrome - a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

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Most of the patients in this study displayed more than one cardiac abnormality, with a high prevalence of the hyperkinetic syndrome (110 beats per minute) and hypertrophy (left ventricle 56 mm).

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Controlled trial of hyposensitization in children with food-induced hyperkinetic syndrome. Lancet.

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After eminent British research psychiatrist Michael Rutter wrote that "situational hyperkinetic syndrome" was of no diagnostic significance, hyperactivity morphed into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).