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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950, et al.
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Handedness in Swedish 10-year-olds. Some background and associated factors.
- 1984
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Ingår i: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. - 0021-9630. ; 25:3, s. 421-432
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forty-five left-handed and 46 right-handed 10-year-old children were subjected to a limited set of neurological tests and a square tracing task. 'Pathological' handedness was diagnosed in cases showing poor performance with the non-preferred hand on the squares task. The frequency of left-handedness in the population was estimated at 9.2%. The boy : girl ratio was 1.6:1. 'Pathological' handedness was twice as common among left-handers as among right-handers. Neurological dysfunction was more common in 'pathological' handers, especially left-handers. Reduced pre-. peri- and neonatal optimality was seen in boys with 'pathological handedness'. School achievement problems and behaviour problems were much more common in left-handed boys than in other study groups. The results lend partial support for the extended pathological left-handedness model recently hypothesized by Bishop, but it is suggested that left-handedness in boys is more often a symptom of pathological shift of handedness than is left-handedness in girls.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950, et al.
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Hyperkinetic disorders in seven-year-old children with perceptual, motor and attentional deficits.
- 1983
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Ingår i: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. - 0021-9630. ; 24:2, s. 233-246
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One hundred and forty-one seven-year-old Swedish children took part in an extensive neuropsychiatric study involving total population samples of children who had shown perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in pre-school, and blindly examined comparison children. The present paper reports on generalized hyperkinesis, i.e. hyperactivity in the child in all of three different assessment settings. About a third of children diagnosed according to strict criteria as suffering from 'Minimal Brain Dysfunction' showed generalized hyperkinesis. In children without perceptual-motor deficits, hyperkinesis was very much rarer. A total population frequency for generalized hyperkinesis in the range of 1-3% is reported as probable. Heredity for delayed maturation, non-optimal pre-, peri- and neonatal factors and adverse psychosocial factors were found to interact in the shaping of the disorder.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950, et al.
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Long-term follow-up of children born after amniocentesis.
- 1982
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Ingår i: Clinical Genetics. - 0009-9163. ; 21:1, s. 69-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Paediatric and neurodevelopmental examinations were made of 122 children between the ages of 5 and 7 years. The mothers of 62 of these children had undergone amniocentesis for prenatal chromosome determination. The other 60 children were controls, matched for time of birth and maternal age. The fact that no difference between the groups was revealed in respect of paediatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, orthopaedic abnormalities, or respiratory problems during the neonatal period indicates that the risk for developmental complications is not increased in children born after amniocentesis in the second trimester.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950, et al.
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Mental retardation in Swedish urban children: some epidemiological considerations.
- 1983
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Ingår i: Applied Research in Mental Retardation. - 0270-3092. ; 4:3, s. 207-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The total population of children born in 1971 and living in Gothenburg, Sweden, by the end of 1977 was screened in order to estimate prevalence figures for various neurodevelopmental disorders. Ninety-four percent of all children assessed attended public preschools. Questionnaires aimed at detecting perceptual, conceptual, motor, and attentional deficits were completed by preschool teachers for 72% of children in these schools. Samples of children with and without problems on the questionnaire were given neuropsychiatric examinations. National registers were searched to identify mentally retarded children not in public preschools. The total population frequency figure for unequivocal mental retardation was almost 1% with an additional 1% of the total population deemed to be of borderline intelligence.
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