HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lumbar Puncture, Baby Boom, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
6 May 2019
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Emergence of hyperactivity: bradley home, benzedrine for spinal taps, findings published, but no response for nearly 30 years, 1957: researchers published on "hyperkinetic impulse disorder, hyperkinetic impulse disorder. Impulsiveness: hyperactivity, poor school work, boys predominated, explicitly linked to scholastic performance, more like normal children than severely disturbed. Suggested that they were essentially mentally healthy but were more fidgety or had some problems with impulse that others didn"t. Label reduced complex issues to easy to understand explanation: a hyperactivity problem: baby boom: massive increase in population meant crowded classrooms, insufficient numbers of (often poorly trained) teachers. Simple - all sorts of groups could rally behind it. Battles over definitions: various terms: hyperkinetic impulse disorder (stressed over-activity), organic brain syndrome, acting out (psychoanalytic), minimal brain damage(minor neurological trauma before, during, and after birth) and later minimal brain dysfunction (since not all kids. Intense, unstable relationships, alternate between idealization and devaluation.
