minimal brain dysfunction

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minimal brain dysfunction

n.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. No longer in scientific use.
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Noun1.minimal brain dysfunction - a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disordersminimal brain dysfunction - a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
ADD, ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, MBD, minimal brain damage
hyperactivity - a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement
syndrome - a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
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Ten years later, when I was working for the Chicago Board of Education, where I observed 274 Chicago public school children being referred for complete diagnoses, I again saw this phenomenon of mild mental retardation and minimal brain dysfunction, and wondered what could be the cause.
Preventing fetal alcohol syndrome
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) first appeared in 1980, replacing the discredited diagnosis of minimal brain dysfunction. After eminent British research psychiatrist Michael Rutter wrote that "situational hyperkinetic syndrome" was of no diagnostic significance, hyperactivity morphed into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The psychiatric pharmaceutical complex
Public Health Service publication by Samuel Clements, Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children: Terminology and Identification.
Behavior control: from the brain to the mind
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