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Under the heading "Controversy in Pediatrics," a recent issue ofAmerican Journal of Diseases of Childrenpresents two essays and an editorial on the subject of minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), sometimes called minimal brain damage, in children. Haller and Axelrod (129:1319-1323, 1975), at the outset of their essay, seem to hew to the line of a report promulgated by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to the effect that MBD "... encompasses children with normal intelligence [and] with deviation of functions of the central nervous system and with learning and behavioral disabilities." Obviously that definition is so broad as to make the uninitiated wary of its usefulness. This thought is substantiated when Haller and Axelrod note that MBD cannot be defined by a single aberration alone since it is constituted of a number of variants. As their essay continues, the authors seem further to beg the question. In contrast, Schmitt
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