English translation: The hyperactive child : a lively (but) depressive child"
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17:47 Apr 20, 2010
French to English translations [PRO] Medical - Psychology
French term or phrase:tonique depressif
its the title of an article: "L’enfant hyperactif : un dépressif tonique"
the article appears to be making a link between hyperactivity in children and depression -- pointing out their similarities and their co-occurance -- but i still don't know how to translate "depressif tonique". someone else translated it as "a tonic depression" but that doesnt mean anything to me.
any ideas?
Explanation: I think it is wiser to consider the whole to make of this. It is what the French describe as a complex phrase, with the juxtaposition of two propositions. This basically means that either the subkect or the verb is the same in both parts, the parts being separated by punctuation.
Here the subject is repeated "lenfant" and then "un dépressif" (un enfant dépressif).
As I read this title, the second part is simply describing what is being meant by the first. I would use ordinary English. Repetition of the word child accentuates the proposition I read as beign put forward. What follows by way of explanation will be borne out by the article itself, or not, so you will know!
Hyperactivity is part of a range of disorders grouped under the heading ADHD, recognised and used by classic mental disorder classifications, the DSM-IV and the ICD-10, the former being the American Psychiatric Association and the latter the World health Organisation classification.
The term "hyperactive" is often used by folks like you and me, the press and elsewhere quite ordinarily. It does have specific meaning.
Never the less, in your heading I suspect the purpose of second part serves to raise a suggestion that a hyperactive child might in fact be a lively but depressed child. I would expect a title like that to head a disussion giving pointers perhaps to the possibility that a child with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), recogised as being "hyperactive" may in fact be suffering from depression, that the depression may even be masked by his liveliness (tonicité) or hyperactivity.
You will find out from the article whether consideration is given to one being dependent upon the other or the possiiblity that the two conditions exist, are 'comorbid'.
My basic reference for this is ADHD Cormorbidities, Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults, Thomas E. Brown, 2009, American Psychitaric publishing, (pp 100-102).
(Makes for fun bedtime reading!)
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The Brown book reference refers to studies where children and adolescent in the cohort presented with a range of possibilities : ADHD only, depression only, ADHD with depression, neither ADHD nor depression. Brown's book runs to 500 pages and is, as its title suggests, on ADHD comorbidities.
It appears to show that "tonic" is used in the medical sense of "muscle tone" - in other words, if I understand the article title correctly (and I'm not a medical specialist), hyperactivity is being described as a depression of muscle tone. Strictly speaking, the translation should be "a tonic depressive", but "depression" is not wrong.
L'enfant hyperactif : un dépressif tonique. Infantile hyperactivity: a tonic depression. G. Levet a ,. a CMP et cabinet, service de pédopsychiatrie, 6, ...
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I think it's really hard to suggest an answer without being able to see the whole article. Have you translated it yet? If not, you could leave the title till last, by which time the answer may be more obvious. And does the word "tonique" appear anywhere in the article?
I doubt whether "child hyperactivity and depression" is going to be an adequate rendition.
I forgot to give my current best solution:
"Child hyperactivity and Depression"
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a restless/agitated/over-excitable/fidgeting depressive/depression with restlessness/fidgeting/over-
Explanation: excitability
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a tonic depression
makes no sense to me either, as a native English speaker and an interpreter for psychiatrists and mental health professionals.
liz askew United Kingdom Local time: 19:55 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 18
The hyperactive child : a lively (but) depressive child"
Explanation: I think it is wiser to consider the whole to make of this. It is what the French describe as a complex phrase, with the juxtaposition of two propositions. This basically means that either the subkect or the verb is the same in both parts, the parts being separated by punctuation.
Here the subject is repeated "lenfant" and then "un dépressif" (un enfant dépressif).
As I read this title, the second part is simply describing what is being meant by the first. I would use ordinary English. Repetition of the word child accentuates the proposition I read as beign put forward. What follows by way of explanation will be borne out by the article itself, or not, so you will know!
Hyperactivity is part of a range of disorders grouped under the heading ADHD, recognised and used by classic mental disorder classifications, the DSM-IV and the ICD-10, the former being the American Psychiatric Association and the latter the World health Organisation classification.
The term "hyperactive" is often used by folks like you and me, the press and elsewhere quite ordinarily. It does have specific meaning.
Never the less, in your heading I suspect the purpose of second part serves to raise a suggestion that a hyperactive child might in fact be a lively but depressed child. I would expect a title like that to head a disussion giving pointers perhaps to the possibility that a child with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), recogised as being "hyperactive" may in fact be suffering from depression, that the depression may even be masked by his liveliness (tonicité) or hyperactivity.
You will find out from the article whether consideration is given to one being dependent upon the other or the possiiblity that the two conditions exist, are 'comorbid'.
My basic reference for this is ADHD Cormorbidities, Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults, Thomas E. Brown, 2009, American Psychitaric publishing, (pp 100-102).
(Makes for fun bedtime reading!)
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs (2010-04-21 01:16:21 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
The Brown book reference refers to studies where children and adolescent in the cohort presented with a range of possibilities : ADHD only, depression only, ADHD with depression, neither ADHD nor depression. Brown's book runs to 500 pages and is, as its title suggests, on ADHD comorbidities.
I though that "un dépressif" = a depressed person/a depressive
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I am just wondering whether “tonique” refers to muscle tonus…
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liz askew United Kingdom Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 18
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