Convulsions and Ritalin?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 658-659
Author(s):  
Robert W. Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
School Problems ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Essentially Normal ◽  
Short Attention Span ◽  
Similar Association ◽  
Grand Mal

I have been following a 10-year-old boy with school problems related to his hyperactivity and short attention span. After an essentially normal neurological and psychological evaluation, he began taking 5 mg/day of Ritalin. This dose was increased weekly by 5 mg. When a dose of 15 mg/day was reached, he had a grand mal seizure. An electroencephalogram done one week later was normal. A neurologist of my acquaintance recalls a similar association in about four or five other patients out of many being followed by her who have been put on Ritalin.

scholarly journals Hallucinations Are Real to Patients With Dementia

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 233372141772110 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Hamdy ◽  
A. Kinser ◽  
J. V. Lewis ◽  
R. Copeland ◽  
A. Depelteau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Short Attention Span

In this case study, we present a patient with preexistent posttraumatic stress disorder and psychosis who has been recently diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. He is experiencing vivid hallucinations. What went wrong between him and his wife as a result of these hallucinations is presented. Alternative actions that could have been used are suggested. Objectives At the end of this case study, readers will know the following: The characteristic clinical features of Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). Patients experiencing hallucinations should not be contradicted, to them, these hallucinations are real. Easy distractibility and short attention span can be exploited to avert or defuse potentially catastrophic situations. Patients with dementia should not have access to loaded guns.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-310
Author(s):  
Herman B. Marks
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Hyperkinetic Syndrome ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Short Attention Span ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Cerebral Dysfunction

I accept your invitation to comment on the letter of Dr. Ralph Olsen on "Pediatric Practice: "Whose Mood Are We Altering?" in Pediatrics1 and the responses of Dr. Turner2 and Dr. Arnold3 in Pediatrics. Certainly, in any large group of school children, one can find a significant number of children, mostly boys, who are extremely active and who have all the associated findings of the "hyperkinetic syndrome" or the "minimal cerebral dysfunction syndrome"-the short attention span, the poor capacity to concentrate, the poorly controlled impulsivity, and so forth.

CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR SEQUELAE OF ASPHYXIA IN INFANCY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
GEORGE B. ROSENFELD ◽  
CHARLES BRADLEY
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Childhood Behavior ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Asphyxia Neonatorum ◽  
Short Attention Span ◽  
Characteristic Behavior ◽  
History Of ◽  
Behavior Syndrome

On the basis of an analysis of the records of 673 children referred for in-patient psychiatric treatment, the majority of those having a history of pertussis in infancy, or asphyxia neonatorum, showed a characteristic behavior syndrome. The behavior syndrome consisted of the six following traits: Unpredictable variability in mood, hypermotility, impulsiveness, short attention span, fluctuant ability to recall material previously learned, and conspicuous difficulty with arithmetic in school. Each of these behavior traits occurred from once and a half to twice as frequently in patients with a history of asphyxia in infancy as in a control group. The syndrome, consisting of at least five of the six traits, occurred more than eight times as frequently in the patients with a history of asphyxia as in a control group. The syndrome occurred significantly more frequently in children with a history of pertussis when the illness occurred in the first three years of life rather than later. Since this behavior syndrome presents a serious handicap to successful social adjustment in later childhood, strenuous therapeutic efforts should be made toward eliminating asphyxia as a complication of illness in infancy.

Normal Intelligence in the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Alfred L. Scherzer ◽  
Jerome B. Ilson
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
Pediatric Rehabilitation ◽  
Normal Intelligence ◽  
Treatment Regimes ◽  
Essentially Normal ◽  
Intellectual Potential

A case of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is presented in which psychological evaluation revealed normal, intellectual potential. It is suggested that formal psychological testing, using a variety of modified instruments, may uncover other patients with essentially normal, intellectual potential. Such testing is essential in order to realistically plan programs of pediatric rehabilitation and to adequately study the effects of various treatment regimes.

Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Selikowitz
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Short Attention Span

Dyslexia and other learning difficulties: The Facts addresses problems many intelligent children face who, while having normal IQ levels, still struggle to learn in the classroom setting. A short attention span, restlessness, an inability to write clearly, and reading comprehension well below age level are all indicators of learning disabilities, and this book offers a clear and sympathetic guide to the difficulties that parents and teachers face when working with a child with these sorts of obstacles to learning. The book deals with difficulties in traditional academic areas such as reading, spelling, and arithmetic, but also looks into lesser known conditions like clumsiness, social unease, and hyperactivity. Providing practical advice to parents to help understand their children's difficulties and to help them overcome problems and improve their self-esteem, Dyslexia and other learning difficulties: The Facts also offers a number of suggestions for managing difficult behaviour. This new edition has been fully updated and draws on the most recent research on learning difficulties and some associated disorders and their treatments. It also provides information about electronic and computer aids that are now available to help individuals with learning difficulties. This encouraging approach and easy-to-read style will appeal to parents as well as to professionals who work with children with learning disabilities.

The Short Attention Span: Fact and Myth

1970 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Betty L. Broman
Keyword(s):  
Attention Span ◽  
Short Attention Span

scholarly journals COUNSELLING STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING DEFICIT CHILD IN BORNOSTATE, NIGERIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ibrahim T. Bokko
Keyword(s):  
Reading Disability ◽  
Learning Deficit ◽  
Learning Deficits ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Vitamin Deficiencies ◽  
Short Attention Span

This paper examined some counselling techniques that could be used in counselling and helping students that exhibit learning deficit. Some causes of learning deficit which include the environment, chemical, viruses and vitamin deficiencies and types of learning deficit were highlighted as short attention span, preservation, hyperactivity, speech disability, reading disability (dyslexia), to mention but a few. Reinforcement and its schedules were also enumerated as the motivator that can effect change in the client. Shaping, padding, chaining and extinction were suggested as counselling techniques that could be used in handling some students with some categories of learning deficits. It was concluded that counsellors should follow strictly the principles of the counselling technique chosen so that the technique will be effective on the client.

Attention Span: An Operant Conditioning Analysis

1967 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry L. Martin ◽  
Richard B. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Short Attention Span ◽  
Conditioning Analysis

The short attention span of brain damaged and retarded children is often discussed as though it were an absolute and unmanipulable entity. Alternatively, an operant conditioning analysis considers attention span as manipulable and improvable. This approach emphasizes the importance of specifying the behavioral referents of attention span and offers, to those concerned with the education of the mentally retarded, a wide variety of effective behavioral control techniques.

Behavioural Genetics of Early Childhood: Fears, Restlessness, Motion Sickness and Enuresis

1984 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
N. Oda ◽  
H. Hatta
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Nocturnal Enuresis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Behavioural Genetics ◽  
Dizygotic Twins ◽  
Short Attention Span ◽  
First Year Of Life

AbstractSeventy-nine pairs of same-sex twins were examined at the age of three years at a municipal clinic and their mothers were interviewed to assess the twins' current and past behaviours. The zygosity was determined after the interview by fingerprints and/or bloodtyping in the majority of cases. The following significant differences in concordance between monozygotic and dizygotic twins were found: 1) fear of strangers during observation at the clinic; 2) marked fear of strangers in the first year of life; 3) whether or not the child was startled by sudden noises during infancy; 4) whether or not the child was able to sleep alone at three years without a parent sitting nearby; 5) susceptibility to motion sickness; 6) nocturnal enuresis; 7) short attention span or restlessness during the test.

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