RESUMO
Brain maturation in 1-36 month old children suffering from congenital cardiopathologies was assessed after a study of psychomotor development. The Rogers' test (Rogers et al., Developmental programming for infants and young children. Volume 2. Early intervention developmental profile, Revised edition, ESL/ELT Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981) was applied to 65 children, of whom 21 presented with simple cardiopathologies (CpS) and 22 with complex cardiopathologies (CpC). All children were matched by age, sex and socioeconomic status to 22 healthy children in a control group (C). Mean differences between the three groups were established by applying the Kruskal-Wallis test, and mean differences between the C and CpS/CpC groups were determined using the Mann-Whitney test. The proportion of cases evaluated as "low" in each group was calculated by applying the Rogers' test, and a test of proportion differences was applied between the C and CpS/CpC groups. CpS children performed similarly to the C, whereas CpC children scored significantly lower than C children on all variables. It is highly likely that the suboptimal psychomotor performance observed in CpC children was due to compromised hemodynamics and related to subclinical immaturity of cerebral development.
Assuntos
Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/diagnóstico , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/psicologia , Cardiopatias Congênitas/diagnóstico , Cardiopatias Congênitas/psicologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Psicomotores/diagnóstico , Transtornos Psicomotores/psicologia , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Pré-Escolar , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/classificação , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Cardiopatias Congênitas/fisiopatologia , Hemodinâmica/fisiologia , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Psicometria , Transtornos Psicomotores/fisiopatologia , Estatísticas não ParamétricasRESUMO
Some biological and behavioral elements which could explain differences between high and low academic attainment (HA/LA) students were identified. The qEEG of subjects under the 10-20 derivation system was recorded at rest and while completing a 3-back working memory (WM) task. While completing the task LA students showed more theta and total absolute potency at rest, and HA individuals showed more energy in delta and theta frequencies in frontal regions; LA students made a higher number of mistakes while executing the WM task with no differences in reaction time between groups. We conclude that a diminished WM capacity is present in LA students.
