Abstract
In his article ‘Psychiatric implications of brain damage in children’, published in 1957, Eisenberg put forward the view that the sequelae of brain damage are determined by I. the alterations in the brain produced by the damage, 2. the reorganization of the personality in face of the deficit and 3. the influence of the social environment (I). Since then very little has been added to our knowledge of the association between brain damage and behavioural disturbances in children.
In a strict sense the term ‘free-field behaviour’ should be applied only for the behaviour in a natural environment. In human as well as in animal research this term is also used for the behaviour shown by a freely moving subject in a laboratory-setting (where the subject is only limited by the specific structure of the environment). In this paper we use the term in this last connotation.
This project was supported by a grant from the Organization for Health Research T.N.O. (The Netherlands).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Eisenberg, L., Psychiatric implications of brain damage in children. Psychiat. Quart. 1, 21 (1957).
Zimet, C. N. & Fishman, D. B., Psychological deficit in schizophrenia and brain damage. Ann. Rev. Psychol. 21, 113 (1970).
Touwen, B. C. L. & Prechtl, H. F. R., The neurological examination of the child with minor nervous dysfunction. Little club Clin. dev. Med., London 1971.
Hutt, C., Hutt, S. J. & Ounsted, C., The behaviour of children with and without upper eNS lesions. Behaviour 24, 246 (1965).
Kalverboer, A. F., Observation of exploratory behaviour of preschool children alone and in the presence of the mother. Psychiat. Neurol. Neurochir. 74, 43 (1971).
Stemmer, Chr. J., Choreatiforme bewegingsonrust, Groningen 1964.
Rutter, M., Graham, P. & Birch, H. G., Interrelation between the choreiform syndrome, reading disability and psychiatric disorder in 8 to II years old children. Develop. Med. Child Neurol. 8, 149 (1966).
Berkson, G., Stereotyped movements of mental defectives, part 5 (Ward behavior and its relation to an experimental task). Am. J. Ment. Defic. 69, 253 (1969).
Benton, A. L., Behavioral indices of brain injury in school children. Child Develop. 33, 199 (1962).
Schulman, J. L., Kaspar, J. C. & Throne, F. M., Brain damage and behavior (a clinical experimental study). Springfield (Ill.) 1965.
Reed, H. B. C., Reitan, R. M. & Kløve, H., Influence of cerebral lesions on psychological test performances of older children. J. Consult. Psychol. 29, 247 (1965).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1971 Leiden University Press, Leiden, The Netherlands
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Verboer, A.F.K. (1971). Observations of Free-Field Behaviour in Preschool Boys and Girls in Relation to Neurological Findings. In: Stoelinga, G.B.A., Van Der Werff Ten Bosch, J.J. (eds) Normal and Abnormal Development of Brain and Behaviour. Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2921-6_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2921-6_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-010-2923-0
Online ISBN: 978-94-010-2921-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive