BRAIN STEM RESPONSES IN MENTALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN

Brain stem auditory evoked responses and visual evoked responses in children with tubercular meningitis.

Thirty two patients between 6 months and 14 years of age with tubercular meningitis were evaluated for brain stem auditory evoked response (BAER) and Visual evoked responses (VER), within 7 days of admission. Absolute latencies and interpeak latencies were compared with values obtained from normal children. BAER abnormality was found in 56.25% and VER in 28%children, respectively. BAER abnormal...

Auditory brain-stem responses in hydrocephalic patients.

Auditory brain-stem response (ABR) was measured in 40 patients (80 ears) with confirmed hydrocephalus. Eighty-eight percent of these patients showed some form of ABR abnormality. Responses indicative of brain-stem dysfunction consisted of prolonged I-V interwave latency (38%), reduced V/I amplitude ratio (33%), and abnormalities in wave-shape of components III (27%) and V (53%). In addition, 70...

Auditory brain-stem responses in syphilis.

Analysis of auditory brain-stem electrical responses (BSER) provides an effective means of detecting lesions in the auditory pathways. In the present study the wave patterns were analysed in 11 patients with secondary or latent syphilis with no clinical symptoms referrable to the central nervous system and in two patients with congenital syphilis and general paralysis. Decreased amplitudes and ...

Mentally Deficient Children

The following is Dr. Shuttleworth's classification of mental defect (congenital) as follows:? Microcephalus, hydrocephalus, mongol or " Kalmuc " type, scrofulous cases, birth palsies with athetosis, congenital cretinism, and primary neurotic. The developmental types are eclamptic, epileptic, syphilitic (inherited), and the accidental or acquired are traumatic, postfebrile (both inflammatory), e...

Mentally Deficient Children