These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Behavioral characteristics of three children with the broad thumb-hallux (Rubinstein-Taybi) syndrome.
    Author: Gotts EE, Liemohn WP.
    Journal: Biol Psychiatry; 1977 Jun; 12(3):413-23. PubMed ID: 871491.
    Abstract:
    Behavioral characteristics of three children with Broad Thumb-Hallux or Rubinstein-Taybi (R-T) syndrome were compared with those of a somewhat comparable clinic sample (N - 15) of children with organic syndromes and retardation. A number of mutual, behavioral resemblances of the three R-T children to each other were found to be absent or less prominent in the comparison group; these included: (i) the R-T children were more emotional and excitable; (ii) more often had nightmares and engaged in self-stimulation; (iii) had greater difficulty getting over anger (pouted); (iv) were friendly and more readily accepted social contacts; (v) had short attention span; and (vi) experienced more difficulty in planning motor acts, and in executing locomotor and oculomotor skills. The pattern of R-T mutual resemblances and their differences from other clinic children logically suggest what may be the behavioral characteristics of children with the R-T syndrome. Educational and child-management suggestions are provided based on the observed and tested characteristics which are presumably related to the R-T syndrome.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]