Risk of having a psychiatric disorder 4 years later in children with hemiplegia and
psychiatric problems at baseline *
Psychiatric problems at baseline in children with hemiplegia predicted
psychiatric problems at 4 years
The presence of
psychiatric problems at baseline was associated with a 2.6-fold and 2.8-fold increased risk of psychiatric problems in preschool and schoolchildren, respectively, at 4 years.
Those who had addiction or other
psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking.
And those who hadn't had
psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit.
Not exact matches
For our purposes, the medical and
psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim
at lessening the alcoholic's personality
problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.
Every year more and more students approach me
at the end of the semester to confess that they have one or an - other
psychiatric problem that is beyond their control, and to insist that because they are clinically depressed, bipolar or have attention deficit disorder they must be given extra weeks to hand in their work.
You also might realize that the vast majority of those of us with «deep
psychiatric issues» (your words) have no
problem at all with atheistic beliefs (and they are beliefs — you are choosing to believe the universe sprang from nothingness, which is no less absurd than a benevolent creator).
A research team, led by Brendan Depue, a doctoral candidate in psychology
at the University of Colorado
at Boulder's Center for Neuroscience, trained 16 subjects — none of whom were previously diagnosed with any
psychiatric problems — to recognize 40 pairs of visual stimuli.
«Since
psychiatric illness is a serious and growing public health
problem, it's important that we take early signs of
psychiatric illness and suicidal behaviour into consideration in suicide prevention,» says Jussi Jokinen, professor in psychiatry
at Umeå University who led the current study.
«There is hope, that even people who have been traumatized during childhood and have severe symptoms,
psychiatric symptoms or other metabolic symptoms or other
problems with the body that this can be reversed
at some point.
It is perhaps thus likely that that these damaged genes coding for
psychiatric diseases are overrepresented in women with fertility
problems, and, if transferred to their offspring, this may
at least partly explain the increased risk of
psychiatric diseases.»
Knowing this, he says, may help clinicians treating adults identify children
at risk for
psychiatric and behavioral
problems.
In part, these
problems arise because the amount of
psychiatric training that GPs receive in France is so inadequate as to be «catastrophic», says Jean - Claude Bisserbe, who studies
psychiatric disorders
at the Pitié - Salpetrière Hospital in Paris.
A team led by David Abramson of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)
at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Children's Health Fund, surveyed residents of FEMA - provided trailers and hotels in Louisiana and reported widespread clinically diagnosed
psychiatric problems.
This study also goes above and beyond prior research as it shows that gambling youth are not only
at risk of gambling
problems, which are associated with numerous adverse interpersonal, financial, criminal, and
psychiatric consequences, but also
at risk for sex - related behaviors such as adolescent pregnancy / impregnation.»
Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many
psychiatric disorders for which self - control
problems figure prominently.»
Josep Dalmau, a neurologist then
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, was studying several women who suddenly began experiencing a syndrome that included
psychiatric symptoms, memory
problems, seizures and abnormal movements.
Born in 1926, Mauri came of age in the context of Fascist Italy and Europe
at war and was so profoundly affected by the events he witnessed first - hand and through the media that he suffered severe
psychiatric problems.
From our friends over
at RealScience: California plans to confiscate guns from 20,000 people who bought them legally but have since been disqualified because of criminal or
psychiatric problems, boosting the state's relatively tough approach to gun control.
Number of
psychiatric cases
at 4 years of follow up and associations between
problems at baseline and
problems 4 years later.
We can conclude that obese children are more likely to experience psychological or
psychiatric problems than non-obese children, that girls are
at greater risk than boys, and that risk of psychological morbidity increases with age.
Fewer DBT subjects went to the emergency department
at least once for any
psychiatric reason, including drug or alcohol
problems (year 1: 43.1 % of DBT subjects vs 57.8 % of CTBE subjects, and year 2: 23.4 % of DBT subjects vs 28.9 % of CTBE subjects; F1, 92 = 2.9, P =.04; NNT, 9.09 [95 % CI, 3.30 - 12.04]-RRB-, or for suicide ideation specifically (year 1: 15.7 % of DBT subjects had
at least 1 visit vs 33.3 % of CTBE subjects, and year 2: 10.6 % of DBT subjects vs 18.4 % of CTBE subjects; F1, 92 = 4.3, P =.02; NNT, 4.42 [95 % CI, 2.49 - 19.76]-RRB-.
Children of mothers who have recurrent depression in addition to anxiety, antisocial behaviour or
problem alcohol use, are
at increased risk of developing a new
psychiatric condition
While there are few empirical studies investigating unaccompanied children and adolescents and those separated from family members, these populations are consistently argued to be
at greater risk for
psychiatric and mental health
problems than their accompanied peers (Ajdukovic & Ajdukovic, 1993, 1998; Hicks et al., 1993; Kinzie et al., 1986; McCloskey, Southwick, Fernandez - Esquer & Locke, 1996; Rumbaut, 1991; Servan - Schreiber, Le Lin & Birmaher, 1998; Sourander, 1998).
Children who do not meet the definition of special needs but are
at high risk of developing severe medical or psychological /
psychiatric problems in the future are eligible for deferred adoption assistance.
Children with of - concern scores on the
problem scale of the Brief Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment were
at increased risk for parent - reported subclinical / clinical levels of
problems and for
psychiatric disorders.
Children with early - onset conduct
problems (CPs) are
at high risk for chronic antisocial and aggressive behaviour, and a variety of social and mental health
problems in adolescence and adulthood (e.g. delinquency,
psychiatric disorders, substance use, school dropout; Fergusson et al. 2005; Kratzer and Hodgins 1997).
The adolescent and young adult with ADHD is
at risk for school failure, emotional difficulties, poor peer relationships, and trouble with the law.29, 30 Factors identifiable in younger youth that predict the persistence of ADHD into adulthood include familiality with ADHD and
psychiatric comorbidity — particularly aggression or delinquency
problems.28,, 29,31,32
In fact, the criteria for many child and adolescent
psychiatric disorders require
problem behaviors or feelings to be present for
at least a period of weeks or months.
Adolescents or parents who (a) had prior
psychiatric hospitalizations; (b) were planning to move out of the catchment areas of one of the three target middle schools during year 1 of the study; (c) were planning to move outside of the South Florida area
at any time during the study; or (d) had scheduling
problems that prevented them from participating in the intervention were excluded from the study.
Externalizing
problems were predicted by
psychiatric problems of the mother before pregnancy and child's externalizing
problems at 2 years of age.