1.The importance of persistent toe walking as a sign in childhood schizophrenia was emphasized and three cases were described illustrating the medical profession's unfamiliarity with this phenomenon.2.In these toe walking schizophrenic children, mental deficiency, autism, and abnormal electroencephalograms were noted.3.It is suggested that toe walking in childhood schizophrenia may be related to space and motion preoccupations, which may be due to primary or secondary dysfunction of ...

Studies by various workers over the last several decades have established the existence of many physiological changes in adult schizophrenia.1-4 It has not been demonstrated that these changes are primary, however, or that they are of prognostic value.In this study we have investigated vestibular functioning in schizophrenic children. This area was chosen for several reasons.First, hyporeactivity and paradoxical vestibular reactions were reported in adult schizophrenics by Angyal.5 In ...

Introduction Do patients with 14- and 6-per-second positive spiking in their electroencephalograms have a unique type of behavior disorder? Is this electrical abnormality a sign of an “epileptic equivalent” with largely autonomic symptomatology ?Since the original report of Gibbs in 1951,1 a number of studies have appeared describing both the details of this electroencephalographic pattern and positive clinical correlates.2-15 The symptoms reported have been quite diverse, some authors ...

An intensive study was made of 34 children with schizophrenia. Diagnosis was established by observation of appearance, speech, motility and posture, play patterns, interpersonal responses, thought content, psychometrics, and clinical history by at least three psychiatrists not involved in the study. Data obtained by questionnaire from the parents of children in the test group were compared with similar data from parents of a contratest group of 19 children who manifested behavior ...

Schizophrenia can be discovered in pre-school children by observation of: Social indifference; uneven and intermittent motor or physical development; irregularity in speech development with tendency toward infantile speech; early fear of falling or rising, giving way to obsession with jumping and falling; excessive interest in spinning toys and circular motility; and preoccupation with body periphery-hands, feet and hair.When the physician observes these symptoms, or is consulted about ...

The importance of establishing a diagnosis in the emotionally disturbed child has been emphasized.Forty adolescent childhood schizophrenics have been contrasted with 20 adolescent behavior problem cases and 20 adolescents whose schizophrenia appeared in adolescence.(a.) The childhood schizophrenics revealed: (i) a tendency to early and severe physiological disturbances and showed general immaturity; (ii) a frequent history of spontaneous “whirling” and toe-walking; (iii) poverty of ...

Recent discoveries and refinements in technique in the field of biochemistry have led to renewed interest in the idea that a test can be developed for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Studies directed toward that goal have included investigations of biological amines, carbohydrate metabolism, epinephrine metabolism, serotonin, taraxein and ceruloplasmin. No conclusive evidence of any biochemical abnormality in schizophrenia has been found. Although careful studies in adults have failed to ...