Available from: C. V. Mosby Company 11830 Westline Industrial Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63141 The research review examines evidence suggesting a biochemical basis for minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), which includes both a relationship between MBD and metabolic abnormalities and a significant genetic influence on the disorder in children. (IM)

Six elementary schools from urban, suburban, and mountain areas of Beijing were screened with a standardized questionnaire and each suspected case was interviewed to determine whether diagnostic criteria were met for attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. The minimal brain disfunction prevalence rate was 3.1 in the urban, 7.8 in the…

Results of these studies support the contention that with advancing years brain-damaged children of the type used in the present study may adapt to and/or recover from the dificit(s) involved in the inability to develop and maintain a state of readiness to respond. (Authors)

In a program designed to instill confidence in students who have never before been given responsibility, individuals, formerly left to exist in a mental limbo, are taught that they can function as productive teachers. (Author/RK)

The variety of separate syndromes which present themselves to the clinician are said to belie any unitary statement about the child with minimal brain dysfunction. (Author)

Discusses the problems of helping a group of children that seem otherwise normal but cannot learn. (RB)

Differing viewpoints in the field have resulted in considerabe lack of agreement in definitions of learning disabilities. Considers problems and limitations resulting from these disagreements. (RB)

Article discusses the child with learning disabilities and how music rhythm has an effect on brain rhythm and thus on brain function. (Author/MM)

Discussed is psychotherapeutic treatment of children with minimal brain dysfunction. Therapy is directed toward both children and parents. (CB)

Training programs for auditory and for visual figure-ground perception were constructed and tested with brain-damaged and mentally retarded children. Training groups showed higher gain scores than the control group on both tests, but the effect was significant only for visual training on visual figure-ground perception. (Author/SJL)

Presents the emotional factors related to the learning disabilities of children with minimal brain dysfunction and offers suggestions to aid the day care worker in counseling the parents of such children. (Author/SDH)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (92d, Boston, Massachusetts, May, 1968).