The development of a scale for the minimal brain dysfunction syndrome in adolescents

The study of psychological and social disturbances in children with brain dysfunction has grown rapidly in the last 25 years. Barsch (1962) cited a summary of research on brain injury by Klebanoff (1945) and pointed out that during the period from 1870-1945, there were only two studies of psychological disturbances in children with brain dysfunction. Less than a decade later Klebanoff, Singer, and Milensky (1954) made another summary of the literature and included a separate section on the studies of psychological disturbances in braininjured children.