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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
[Clinico-psychopathological aspects of borderline mental disorders in infancy]
Insights
Borderline mental disorders in infants often involve regulation, psychomotor, and affective issues, frequently linked with developmental delays and neurological deviations. Early identification and understanding of etiological factors are crucial for diagnosis and intervention.
Area of Science:
- Child Psychology
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Context:
- Comprehensive examination of 200 infants in their first year of life.
- Focus on children with borderline mental disorders.
- Assessment of vegetative, instinctive, psychomotor, and affective regulation.
Purpose:
- To summarize findings on borderline mental disorders in infants.
- To differentiate these conditions from endogenous mental pathologies.
- To elucidate the role of etiological factors in infant mental health.
Summary:
- Leading abnormalities include vegetative/instinctive regulation and psychomotor/affective disorders of a borderline nature.
- These disorders frequently co-occur with developmental retardation and neurological deviations.
- Etiological factors such as perinatal encephalopathy, constitutional, psychosocial, and mother-child system disturbances are significant.
Impact:
- Highlights the prevalence and diversity of psychopathological abnormalities in infants.
- Provides insights into differentiating borderline conditions from endogenous pathologies.
- Emphasizes the importance of considering multiple etiological factors in infant mental health assessment.
Abstract:
The authors summarize the data obtained during a comprehensive examination of 200 children of the first year of life with borderline mental disorders. Abnormalities of vegetative and instinctive regulation, psychomotor and affective disorders which are, as a rule, of the borderline nature, occupy the leading position in the structure of the above-indicated disorders. The latter ones are associated frequently enough with different types of development retardation and neurological deviations from normal. The signs of differentiating between these disorders and analogous ones within the framework of endogenous mental pathology are depicted. The role is demonstrated of etiological factors (perinatal encephalopathy, constitutional, psychosocial, disturbances of the mother-child system). The studies attest to the basic demonstrability of psychopathological abnormalities and to their great diversity in infants.
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