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A battery of 37 tasks was assembled for neuropsychiatric assessment of cognitive functioning, motor control, perceptual abilities, vigilance, and neuromaturational status. In order to determine developmental changes within a normal population, a test battery was administered to 90 middle-class grade school children (50 boys and 40 girls), who ranged in age from 4 to 14. Statistical assessment of left- and right-handed differences produced only one significant finding, which was probably due to environmental adaptation. The only clear sex difference indicated a gross motor advantage for boys walking backward on the balance beam. All 37 tests correlated with age--with true value correlations ranging from .39 to .87.
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Atención , Desarrollo Infantil , Percepción , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Cognición , Femenino , Lateralidad Funcional , Humanos , Masculino , Destreza Motora , Percepción VisualRESUMEN
A new, precoded, self-report questionnaire was used to collect information on 75 patient members of the Tourette Syndrome Association. This diverse group of Tourette's syndrome (TS) patients supplied by mail detailed medical, symptom, developmental, family, and personal history information. Analysis of these data supported the usefulness and validity of the questionnaire, and also indicated that the diagnosis of TS is being made earlier; attentional difficulties may be basic to the disorder; haloperidol is an effective treatment for many patients, but alternative treatments are needed because unpleasant side effects of haloperidol often lead to discontinued use, and TS is disabling for many with most patients reporting serious problems in one or more areas of functioning.
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Síndrome de Tourette/epidemiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Actitud , Niño , Desarrollo Infantil , Preescolar , Femenino , Haloperidol/uso terapéutico , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Proyectos Piloto , Síndrome de Tourette/diagnóstico , Síndrome de Tourette/tratamiento farmacológicoRESUMEN
Perceptual, motor, and neuromaturational competence were assessed using a battery of tasks with three groups of children with diagnosed disorders of Tourette's syndrome (TS), attentional deficit with no known organic substrate (Constitutional AD), and attentional deficit disorder in children with epilepsy (E-ADD). The purpose was to determine how the three groups related to each other on these measures and to establish clinical validation of the test battery. As predicted, the control and the TS groups did much better than the ADD and seizure groups. The TS group differed from the controls on only a handful of measures, whereas the constitutional ADD and E-ADD children were far more deviant than the TS children. The E-ADD children as a group suffered difficulties in virtually every area.