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“My daddy is off to war”– Children of military families struggle to adjust.
December was a good month for the US military in Iraq; not a single casualty was reported. Unfortunately, the story was not as rosy in Afghanistan, where 20 service members died -not including the 7...
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Special needs children: Depression and anxiety symptoms
In our neuropsychology practice we see a large number of children with special health care needs (i.e., medical conditions) as well as children with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric conditions...
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Kids with Oppositional Defiant Disorder respond to frequency but not...
Today I wanted to write about a study published recently in the journal Biological Psychiatry, which surprisingly didn’t get much press coverage. The study examined the way that rewards and...
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Preschoolers: Pathologizing childhood or a...
The New York Times recently released two interesting reports about mental health issues in young children. The first examined the concept of preschool depression (see also here for one of our previous...
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Language skills, aggression, and peer rejection in elementary school.
This week wanted to write about a study that examined the association between language skills, externalizing behaviors (e.g., aggression, defiance, etc), and peer rejection in elementary school. We...
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ADHD and Conduct Disorder: Delinquency in teens with ADHD and other conditions
Given the high rates of ADHD diagnoses in the USA, and recent discussions about the likely misdiagnoses of tens of thousands of children, it is easy for some to dismiss ADHD as jus a term used by...
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Child Psychopaths? Poor eye contact and thoughts on psychiatric disorders.
Psychiatric disorders are diagnosed by determining the presence of specific symptoms, mostly without regards for what caused the symptoms. That is, if you have a specific number of symptoms and meet...
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Fifty percent (50%) of teens have experienced a psychiatric condition by...
Monday’s BRIEFS: Quick musings in child related research. Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents I: Prevalence and sex differences Today is the first of a series of Brief posts about the...
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Storm and Stress? Many psychiatric disorders increase during adolescence.
Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents III: Increases in psychiatric disorders during adolescence. Today is the third of a series of brief posts about the recent results of the latest...
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“Kids nowadays get away with everything!” Has parenting really changed?
I always find it amusing when people talk nostalgically about “the good old days” when arguing that today’s generation is “out of control.” ”Today’s kids are so violent… When I was a kid I would have...
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