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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
versão impressa ISSN 0120-0011
Resumo
LUNA-VILLANUEVA, Berenice; SOLOVIEVA, Yulia; LAZARO-GARCIA, Emelia e QUINTANAR, Luis. Clinical features of brain activation deficit in children. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2017, vol.65, n.3, pp.417-423. ISSN 0120-0011. https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v65n3.57057.
Introduction:
Brain activation is considered as one of the mechanisms of the brain related to the functional state of deep subcortical structures. A deficit in this mechanism may be involved in behavioral disorders during development and school learning.
Objective:
To identify the clinical features of Mexican schoolchildren with general brain activation deficit, and to determine the neuropsychological tasks that help to detect this syndrome.
Materials and methods:
The sample included 20 Mexican schoolchildren attending regular schools and diagnosed with behavioral and/or learning disorders. The types of errors and performance in neuropsychological tasks were analyzed by categories.
Results:
The results showed that there are common clinical features in schoolchildren, particularly, executive instability, fatigue and/or slow execution, and instability in memory and perceptive graphic tasks. These features can be demonstrated through the qualitative syndromic analysis of perceptive graphic tasks, retention tasks and manual praxis.
Conclusions:
Qualitative assessment is effective to differentiate this type of cases from other possible neuropsychological conditions.
Palavras-chave : Neuropsychology; Evaluation; Diagnosis (MeSH).