Biomedical subjects

G Opp

Publications and source records attributed to G Opp.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2001

[Children's well-being under adversive situations in life: new results of studies on resiliency].

The risks of modern life increasingly endanger the well-being of children. There is a rising number of scientific investigations demonstrating that a significant number of children growing up under highly adversive conditions of life resist developmental risks they are exposed to. What are the specific characteristics and competencies of these children supporting resiliency? What qualities of developmental environments strengthen children and their well-being? The challenges for modern education resulting from the findings of resilience research are discussed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1994

Historical roots of the field of learning disabilities: some nineteenth-century German contributions.

The field of learning disabilities is often thought of as having come into being in the early 1960s. In reality, there is a long history of scientific investigation into psycho-anatomic functions. This article highlights the scientific contributions of some major nineteenth-century German researchers, their astounding attempts at describing neuropsychologic dysfunction, and their struggle to conceptionalize and cerebrally localize the clinical syndromes they had observed. After Pierre Paul Broca's discovery of "motor aphasia," Carl Wernicke described the clinical syndrome of "sensory aphasia" and its cerebral localization in 1871. Wernicke's investigation was at the onset of rapidly accumulating insights into the complexities of neuropsychologic functions as they were investigated by researchers such as Ludwig Lichtheim, Hugo Karl Liepmann, B. Berlin, Hubert Grashey, and J. K. Goldscheider. The long-term influence of this research on the development of the field of learning disabilities is discussed.

Apraxias↗

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A German perspective on learning disabilities.

German practices in the field of learning disabilities beyond preschool level are described in the context of their historical formation. In a historical perspective it becomes obvious that the German notion of Lernbehinderung, although being just a translation of "learning disabilities," differs markedly from the American definition. Definitional problems, educational practices, and emerging trends in the German field of "learning disabilities" are discussed.

Adolescent↗