REFLEX DYSKINESIA IN CHILDREN

THE OVERACTIVE child remains a topic of prime interest to the diagnostician and the therapeutist. The various sources of overactive behavior in childhood have recently been surveyed by Schneider. 1 Their proper differentiation is a goal that will still require much concerted effort on the part of all workers dealing with this problem. The basic understanding of overactivity in children, although remarkably advanced by progress in psychologic testing and analysis, is often handicapped by incompleteness of examination, by lack of awareness of the various organic factors involved and by failure to appreciate their importance. The neurologic testing of children presenting overactive behavior is no doubt an indispensable requisite for the objective evaluation of the etiologic possibilities. Moreover, it remains doubtful whether the time-honored technic of simple observation will permit a final judgment as to the nature of abnormal behavior patterns unless aided by special investigations which the individual case may