Background: In addition to
other symptom domains, Huntington's disease (HD) is also characterized by cognitive disturbances that substantially diminish quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
Not exact matches
Likewise, the two subscales «sadness» (depressive
symptoms) and «worries» (anxiety
symptoms) correlated significantly higher with each
other (r =.48) than with all
other constructs in the
domain (−.40 to.08).
Those who displayed the most problematic behaviour often had higher than average difficulties in several
domains although their core difficulty was different - one being hyperactivity, the
other emotional
symptoms.
The first objective of the present study was therefore to investigate whether being isolated from cliques from age 11 to 13 years predicted an increase in depressive
symptoms at age 14 years, while controlling for
other problems in the peer relations
domain.
While the TD group exhibited a relatively flat EF profile, indicating no particular problems in any
domain, the three
symptom groups differed in several ways, both from each
other and relative to controls.
We hypothesize that clique isolation at age 11 to 13 years would predict self - reported depressive
symptoms at age 14 years, even if initial levels of depressive
symptoms at age 11 years and
other problems in the peer relations
domain (i.e., peer rejection and friendlessness at age 11) would be controlled for.
Peer interventions administered in the short - term are not enough to eradicate the peer problems of externalizing children, whose difficulties typically require longer - term treatments.20 Perhaps the most important conclusion from the MTA for the
domain of peer relations is that peer problems need to be targeted directly and over the long - term; treatments geared primarily at ADHD
symptoms or
other functional deficits associated with ADHD are not likely to eradicate peer problems.