Executive Emotional System Disruption as Causal Agent in Frontal Lobishness among Abused Children

Autor/inn/en	Naude, H.; Du Preez, C. S.; Pretorius, E.
Titel	Executive Emotional System Disruption as Causal Agent in Frontal Lobishness among Abused Children
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 174 (2004) 5, S.437-460 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Memory; Child Abuse; Cognitive Processes; Children; Foreign Countries; Neurological Impairments; Interpersonal Competence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Ausland; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	This article aims to explore Executive Emotional System (EES) disruption as causal agent in frontal lobishness among abused children. The "Revised Senior South African Individual Scale" (SSAIS-R) was used to assess a sample population of seventy-five male and female subjects between the ages of 8 years 0 months and 16 years 11 months who were exposed to child abuse to such levels that warranted admission to a Place of Safety. The data was computerized and frequencies projected as proportions and percentages. A one-way analysis of variance parametric technique was implemented and p values calculated to verify significant tendencies. The results proved compromised memory and verbal processing abilities (p = 0.0001), with a reduction of global intellectual functioning among all subjects (p = 0.0001). Although frontal lobishness is usually associated with neurological insult, the authors argue that abused subjects displayed very similar manifestations. In addition to acknowledged symptoms, abused subjects presented with symptoms such as depressed explicit-declarative memory (especially the semantic memory), as well as poor error detection and restoration, despite advanced levels of social knowledge (episodic memory). The results provided support for EES disruption in frontal lobishness among abused subjects, with the interpretation that a build-up of memory impairment accompanied by inaccessibility of existing memory deposits might account for frontal lobishness among abused children. Because these impairments cannot be purely ascribed to diagnosed frontal insult, the authors suggest that the term "pseudo-frontal lobishness" be used to describe this type of executive dysfunction among abused subjects. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10