minimal brain dysfunction

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minimal brain dysfunction

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. No longer in scientific use.

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minimal brain dysfunction - a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders

ADD, ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, MBD, minimal brain damage

hyperactivity - a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement

syndrome - a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

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Ten years later, when I was working for the Chicago Board of Education, where I observed 274 Chicago public school children being referred for complete diagnoses, I again saw this phenomenon of mild mental retardation and minimal brain dysfunction, and wondered what could be the cause.

Preventing fetal alcohol syndrome

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) first appeared in 1980, replacing the discredited diagnosis of minimal brain dysfunction. 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).

The psychiatric pharmaceutical complex

Public Health Service publication by Samuel Clements, Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children: Terminology and Identification.