• Feel bad?

  Check your symptoms

• Feel the pain?

  Find out more

Symptoms of disease - impaired mental development

Psychic dysontogenesis (impaired mental development) is a pathology of the mental development with the change of the sequence, rhythm and pace of the process of maturation of mental functions.

Range of mental development in children is wide enough, but
considerably more often a delay of mental development.

In clinical psychiatry, the term «dysontogenesis» belongs to the delays and distortions of mental development. A group of disorders, combined the notion of «mental retardation» includes a pathological condition characterized by a lack of intellect and psyche as a whole. To «distortions of mental development» include the state, different fractional and dissociative development of mental functions. Some of them can be characterized by acceleration, and other developmental delay.

Delay of mental development - the syndrome of the time lag development of the psyche as a whole or some of its functions, the deceleration of the pace of realization of the potential of the organism, is often found on admission to the school and is expressed in the failure of the total stock of knowledge, limited views, immaturity of thinking, a small intellectual focus, the predominance of gaming interests, quick oversaturability in of intellectual activity.

The delay of mental development should be distinguished from acquired States defect personality and intellectual activity, due to the (painful process or other damage to the psyche. In the latter case, it is accepted to speak about stupidity, or dementia.

In the framework of the mental subnormality distinguish heavy mental (backwardness and relatively light mental retardation (border forms of developmental delay).

Which diseases there is impaired mental development

Impaired mental development can occur under the influence of the (many internal and external factors (genetic, biological, psychogenic and microsocial), as well as their combination and interaction.

Among the main can be called the residual organic cerebral insufficiency, which in the foreign literature is determined by the capacious concept of «minimal brain dysfunction» (minimal brain dysfunction - MBD). In the elaboration of these factors in relation to early childhood pay attention to the features of temperament, somatic and organic cerebral pathology, complex emotional ties, deprivation (including partial orphanhood " death «of one of the parents, divorce).

The reasons of delay of mental development can be divided into two large groups:
1. the causes of biological nature;
2. the causes of the socio - psychological nature.

For reasons of biological nature include:
1. different variants of a pathology of pregnancy (heavy intoxication,
rhesus-conflict, etc.);
2. prematurity of the child;
3. birth injuries;
4. various somatic diseases (severe form of influenza, rickets,
chronic diseases are the vices of the internal organs, tuberculosis, syndrome
the impaired gastrointestinal absorption, etc.)
5. not heavy brain injury.

Among the causes of the socio-psychological nature are the following:
1. early separation of the child from the mother and upbringing in complete isolation in
the conditions of social deprivation;
2. shortage of comprehensive, age-appropriate activities:
subject, games, communication with adults and etc.
3. distorted conditions of upbringing of the child in the family (hyperprotection) or the authoritarian type of education.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a impaired mental development

• Psychopathology
• Psychologist
• Psychiatrist

Are you experiencing impaired mental development? You want to know more detailed information, or you need an inspection? Please sign up on reception to the doctor! Doctors will examine you, examine the external signs and help to determine the disease the symptoms, they will consult you and provide the necessary assistance. You can also call the doctor on the house.

Do you feel disrupted mental development? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

Disorders by category

Disorders by alphabet

Map of the symptoms and the types of disorders is intended solely for educational purposes. We strongly recommend do NOT self-medicate; on all matters relating to the definition of the disease and ways of its treatment, contact your doctor. Md-tips is not responsible for the consequences of use information posted on the site.