Possibilities of induction therapy in children with minimal cerebral
dysfunctions
AUTHORS : Gimranov R.F. | Eremina E.N. | Maltseva E.A.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Department of Clinical Neurophysiology FPK MR RUDN, Moscow, Russia
YEAR : 2006
Orton (1937) was one of the first researchers to associate developmental disorders of the child with residual brain lesions. Further observations of term and
premature infants showed a connection between the psychophysiological development of the child and various brain lesions (Strauss, Werner, 1947; Strauss,
Lethinen, 1955), which have come to be called mild or minimal brain dysfunctions (LDM or MDM). Perinatal brain lesions most often lead to three different types of
clinical manifestations, which depend on the degree and location of the damage: 1) severe motor disorders, which can be accompanied by intellectual defects of
varying degrees, – a typical picture of cerebral palsy