[Perinatal asphyxia and psychopathologic symptomatology in adolescence].

The author in his present paper discusses the results obtained in his examinations of a group of 15-year-olds who during birth underwent a shorter or longer asphyxia. The cases were recorded on the basis of notes on the course of birth in the obstetrical clinic in Opava in 1950. The children, after 15 years, are examined psychiatrically, psychologically by special methods of test, neurologically, and electroencephalographically, and the objective anamnesis is obtained from both parents and school and is analyzed. The results obtained confirm some information given in literature on the increased incidence of pseudoneurotic phenomena and on very discrete neurological symptomatology in individuals with perinatal damages. There were found neither gross defects of intellect nor any indications of a pronounced lesion of the central nervous system. The author also presented the results of statistical investigations by reference to the occurrence of selected symptoms in the basic group in comparison with a control group of children that did not suffer from asphyxia.