Clinical features of brain activation deficit in children

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.

• Autores: Luna-Villanueva, Berenice; Solovieva, Yulia; Lázaro-García, Emelia; Quintanar, Luis
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/65034
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/65034; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/66057/
• Palabra clave: 61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health; Neuropsychology; Evaluation; Diagnosis; Neuropsicología; Evaluación; Diagnóstico
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional