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Volume 3, issue 4

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Indices of organic brain damage in children and adolescents in experts opinion

Agnieszka Gmitrowicz1
1. II Kliniki Psychiatrycznej Katedry Psychiatrii Akademii Medycznej w Łodzi
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1994, 3, 409-415
Keywords: organic CNS damage, diagnosis

Abstract

In a questionnaire survey a group of experts were asked to rate the diagnostic value of 79 different indices used for the assessment of cerebral pathology in children and adolescents. Statistical analysis of the ratings yielded a set of the most useful indices of "organicity" or brain damage.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Agnieszka Gmitrowicz,
II Klinika Psychiatryczna AM,
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