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Controlled observations on patterns of activity, attention, and impulsivity in brain-damaged and psychiatrically disturbed boys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

D. Shaffer ,
Nancy McNamara  and
J. H. Pincus
D. Shaffer
Affiliation:
Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.
Nancy McNamara
Affiliation:
Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.
J. H. Pincus
Affiliation:
Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.
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Synopsis

Objective measurements taken from boys with and without a conduct disorder and with and without associated brain injury suggest that overactivity is a function of psychiatric disturbance rather than of an abnormality of the central nervous System. Very few of the children studied were consistently overactive or inattentive. Mothers' reports of overactivity tallied with a measure of conduct disturbance but not with objective measurements of activity or attention.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 4 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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