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H D Rösler

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PubMed1990

[Secular acceleration in psychological and somatic trends. A review].

This is a review about the secular acceleration of psychic an somatic development over the last two decades. Based on empirical studies published in this field, the final tendency of this trend in growth and puberty, its continuance in sexual behaviour and mental capacity, as the possible consequences for personality development are discussed. The secular trend is interpreted as an effect of modification limited for genetic and ecological reasons.

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PubMed1990

[School achievement following hemolytic disease in the newborn].

Repeated psychological investigations were performed in a group of 123 children who as newborns received exchange transfusions due to a haemolytic disease. Their school-career was compared with a control group of healthy newborns at an age of 16 years. In the Mhn-group a lower level of school performance could be observed. There was a higher percentage of backward children according to additional perinatal risks and a lower socioeconomic status of the parents. Even at the same class the two groups differed in their median school marks for the different subjects and behaviour proving the Mhn-children in spite of early exchange transfusion at risk for later failure in school.

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PubMed1988

[Differential courses of development in children born with hemolytic disease of newborn].

Repeated psychological investigations were performed in a group of 124 children who received exchange transfusions due to morbus haemolyticus neonatorum as newborns. Their psychomotoric development was compared with a control group without exchange transfusions. In the Mhn-children a lower level of cognitive capacity was observed. There was a higher percentage of mental retardation and of handicaps. The distribution between female and male children was nearly equal.

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PubMed1979

[Catamnestic studies of normally intelligent encephalopathy patients among children and adults].

Our studies show that the special features in the psychic development of encephalopaths showing normal intelligence consist in delayed motor, intellectual and educational progress. While motor retardation is reduced with age, as a result of such factors as rhythmical and psychomotor musico-therapy, individual intelligence test results drop more frequently at school age. The drop is less marked in students attending special classes, although they go back to their original schools after grade 4. The trend toward deterioration in intellectual development is reduced with age, i.e. when educational progress as encouraged by society, slows down. Despite their normal performance with regard to intelligence these students markedly lag behind their healthy contemporaries as far as performance at school is concerned.

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PubMed1977

[Trial of piracetam in children with cerebral organic mental deficiency].

The administration, in a double blind experiment, of piracetam to two homogeneous groups of 32 and 34 eight- to twelve-year-old brain-injured special education children lacking normal mental ability, where the daily doses administered for a period of thirteen weeks were 3 tablets or 1.2 g (administered to second and third graders) and 5 tablets or 2.0 g (administered to fourth graders), respectively, did not produce a lasting effect upon the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, the concentration power, the proficiency level, and the behavior shown by pupils during and out of school hours. On the other hand, there was observed, in patients receiving placebos, a nonsignificant tendency toward improvement in physical well-being, so that the effect produced by the drug may here be considered to be a negative one.

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PubMed1977

[Definition of psychotherapy from a methodologic viewpoint].

Psychotherapy is the psychological treatment of disturbed person-environment relationships, associations or connections which are learned in a lifelong process of socialization. Accordingly, psychotherapy is a process of learning for the patient and a process of educating for the therapeutist, a process which is controlled by specialists in the case of children as well as adults with serious psychic disorders and which is usually a means of self-education in the case of subjects with slight psychic disorders. The primary objective of psychotherapy is to modify both the attitude and behavior in the sense of improving a subject's ability to fulfill his duties in society.

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PubMed1976

[Experience with special classes for mildly brain-damaged children with behavior disorders].

Within the framework of a large-scale medical and pedagogical experiment conducted at Rostock, two special education classes for second graders were set up at the start of the 1965/66 school year in an attempt to prevent children with cerebral lesions from failing to pass courses already in the lower grades at elementary schools. As a result of this experiment, it was decided to start a school for special education children, and this school now has two parallel classes each for second, third, and fourth graders as well as one additional class in which pupils are prepared for the fifth normal education school grade. Psychological tests made as part of a longitudinal study in which 48 children who had been to this school from 1965, 1966, and 1967 were included and which spread over years including the 1971/72 school years, showed an improvement in motor development with slightly retarded intellectual development and unchanged lack of concentration power. Average attainments in the various subjects improved while pupils were attending special education classes and did not, after reintegration of such children into normal schools (fifth grade), drop below the general level of proficiency.

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PubMed1968

[Psychologic diagnostic methods in the study of brain-damaged children].

In a survey the author describes the present state of experimental identification of the psychic consequences of slight early-childhood brain damages to intelligence, perception, motoricity, concentration, memory, and personality structure. It is even with the most useful psychological methods that only significant group differences between brain-damaged and healthy children may be found, which do not allow a completely reliable individual diagnosis. An increase in the reliability of such psychodiagnostic methods should be attempted to be realized by a combination of the most revealing individual tests into so-called batteries, refinement of the investigative technique used for their calibration, and homogenization of the groups of test subjects taken as a base.

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