... in proneness to these phenomena. We aimed to examine the influence of schizotypal personality traits on proneness to experiencing induced ASEs from a developmental perspective, from childhood to adulthood. Methods: Two hundred and sixteen children, adolescents, and young adults participated in the MGT...

... affect further brain and behavioural development. Early intensive interventions can help to attenuate social-development and other risk factors and, thus, to ameliorate the deficits associated with ASDs. We present FIAS, an intensive early intervention approach for young children with ASD, which aims...

...-age children (fourth grade elementary school in Cologne, Germany). Method: A sample of 1,490 children (age range: 8-11 years) and their parents each completed a sleep questionnaire and the School Refusal Assessment Scale. Results: The results indicate that sleep problems in childhood are frequent...

... sensitivity in offspring of patients with PD. Sampling and Methods: Thirty-four children of patients with PD with/without agoraphobia and 30 children of healthy subjects were compared. Temperament and character dimensions and anxiety sensitivity levels of children were obtained by the Junior Temperament...

...Gal Shoval; Iris Manor; Eitan Nahshoni; Abraham Weizman; Gil Zalsman Background: The role of the meaning of given names has been noted in psychotherapy as well as in everyday life. This study aimed to investigate the possible association between the nature of given names of children and attention...

...Martin Holtmann; Andreas Becker; Tobias Banaschewski; Aribert Rothenberger; Veit Roessner Background: In many severely mentally disordered children, the clinical presentation is complicated by comorbid affective and behavioral dysregulation. Recently, a highly heritable behavioral phenotype...

... met the DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) and 34 families with no mentally ill children (mean age ± SD = 12.6 ± 2.9 years) or parents. Children and their parents were assessed with the K-SADS-PL (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia – Present and Lifetime Version...

...Magda Liakopoulou; Sofia Korlou; Katerina Sakellariou; Vassiliki Kondyli; Efi Kapsimali; Jasmin Sarafidou; Dimitris Anagnostopoulos Objective: Our purpose was to determine the rates of psychopathology in parents of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and compare...

...Ingo Schäfer; Claus Barkmann; Peter Riedesser; Michael Schulte-Markwort Background: The impact of road traffic accidents (RTAs) on the physical health of children is well recognized, but their psychological consequences have only recently become a topic of research. While other traumatic...

...Anupam Thakur; K. Jagadheesan; Vinod K. Sinha The present study explored psychopathological dimensions in psychoses of children and adolescents and the distribution of demographic and clinical variables across different psychopathological domains. This study included 101 consecutive patients aged 6...

... referred sample of children and adolescents. After psychiatric evaluation, including a diagnostic clinical interview (DICA-R), 51 patients (25 males and 26 females, mean age 13.1 years) with an index diagnosis of DD associated with GAD were compared with 22 patients (13 males and 9 females, mean age 12.9...

...Sonja Ruppert; Margaretha Bågedahl-Strindlund A 2-year cohort of children (n = 75) of hospitalised first-episode parapartum mentally ill mothers in the mid-1970s in Stockholm were studied. The children were followed up during the school-age period from 1982 through 1992, and they were studied...