Makrosefalik Çocuklarda IQ Düzeyleri ve Ruhsal Bozukluklar
M. Erkan Özcan, Vengiz Yakıncı, Birsen Sıpahi, Metin Genç, Yaşar Durmaz
Article No:
6
Article Type :
Research
Whether there is a problem with macrocephalic children may occupy the minds of both parents and physicians. One of 50 children is macrocephalic, so this situation is accepted as common. Macrocephalic 26, and normocephalic 21 children were evaluated for obtaining verhal , performance, and total IQ scores, by using WISCR. Macrocephalic 33, and normocephalic 30 children were evaluated .for presence of any psychiatric disorder. There was not any statistically significant difference between two groups, in terms of IQ scores and psychiatric disorders. It was concluded that macrocephalic children were not different from normocephalic children by these means.
Keywords :
Macrocephaly, child psychiatry. IQ scores
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2000;13:166-169
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