We explore the associations among EF, ToM, and
symptom domains of ASD and ADHD and address the above challenges in the present study.
Not exact matches
There are cases in which the presentation
of symptoms are broad, across multiple sensory systems impacting every aspect
of daily life to those in which the sensory
symptoms are restricted to a single sensory
domain with less significant interference with daily life.
The idea
of symptom domains rather than disease categories also extends to the neurobiology
of mental illness.
«My co-authors and I developed a method that instead captures
symptom dimensions, or sets
of symptoms, informed by the National Institute
of Mental Health Research
Domain Criteria,» continued Dr. McCoy.
In one
domain, organization and motivation for work, the severity
of reported impairment predicted the degree
of response to LDX treatment such that women with greater severity
of symptoms in this
domain found the greatest improvement with LDX treatment.
Preliminary data show that all executive function
domains, except managing affective interference, showed a significant reduction in severity
of symptoms during active LDX treatment versus treatment with placebo.
«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative
symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness
of novel mechanisms in separate negative
symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance
of success before launching large phase III trials.
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.
Administration
of standardized questionnaires to measure the 3
domains of the 1994 CFS case definition [23]: the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) to measure 5 dimensions
of fatigue [28] the Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form 36 (SF - 36) to evaluate 8 dimensions
of functional impairment [29]; and the CDC
Symptom Inventory to evaluate occurrence / frequency / severity
of the 8 CFS - accompanying
symptoms [30]; 2.
Controlled trials and case studies suggest that consistent yoga practice is associated with improvements across a number
of domains including tremor reduction, improved muscle strength, balance, posture, flexibility, and functional mobility, better cardiac health, and fewer
symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Associations
of these scales with the eight definitional
symptoms of CFS and with eight
domains of functional disability were examined separately in: (1) an overall sample
of individuals with a wide range
of fatigue severity and symptomatology; (2) a subsample
of individuals with CFS - like symptomatology, and, (3) a subsample
of healthy controls.
The primary
domains assessed included (1) depression
symptoms as measuredby the clinician - rated HAMD and self - reported Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) 29; (2) global functioning as measured by the clinician - ratedClinical Global Impressions scale (CGI) 30 andC - GAS; and (3) social functioning as measured by the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (SAS - SR).31 Higher scores on the HAMD and BDIindicate a greater number
of symptoms; on the CGI and C - GAS, better functioning; and on the SAS - SR, worse functioning.
Within the maternal
domain, dominant themes included 1) emotional health: all respondents indicated that a mother's emotional health greatly affects her child's well being; 2) self - efficacy: mothers believed in the importance
of accepting responsibility for monitoring their own well being and that
of their child; and 3) support systems: all mothers expressed the need to share parenting experiences, stressors, and depressive
symptoms with someone (most preferred to speak with family or friends rather than with their child's pediatrician).
A 2 - to 4 - year window may exist between initial presentation
of symptoms and the development
of a disorder, suggesting an opportunity to intervene before problems become more serious in children.6 In recent years, many pediatricians have taken advantage
of more widely disseminated public
domain screening tools and have used emerging computer technology to facilitate behavioral / emotional screening.
There is also inconsistency regarding studying anxiety and depressive
symptoms as a single «internalizing
domain» or as two clinically - distinct presentations.6, 7 Similar issues with how to classify
symptoms are reflected in the lack
of consensus as to whether emotional problems should be conceptualized and studied in a categorical versus dimensional fashion.8 Diagnostic criteria (DSM - IV - TR) 9 are often inappropriate for young children and do not capture developmentally - salient types
of impairment (e.g., disruption in family routine), which make it difficult to apply psychiatric research methods.
An alternative and potentially fruitful strategy would be to assess multiple relevant
domains of externalizing
symptoms in our research and clinical endeavors (e.g., aggression, conduct problems, high risk behaviors, substance use, and risky sexual behaviors).
Principal components analysis
of item - level Q - Sort data yielded two state
of mind (dismissing vs. free to evaluate and preoccupied vs. not) and two inferred experience (maternal and paternal) components that were associated with two
domains of theoretical significance to attachment theory: interpersonal functioning in a romantic context and
symptoms of psychopathology.
This initial assessment
of skills training plus exposure therapy found benefits in many
symptom domains.
The pacing and ordering
of RRFT components are flexible and determined by the needs
of each family and
symptom severity in each
domain.
2 Throughout this report, to avoid over-repetition, the four difficulty sub-scales
of the SDQ - conduct problems, emotional
symptoms, hyperactivity / inattention and peer problems - will be referred to variously as sub-scales or behavioural
domains.
The open parent, teacher, and child ratings for
domains 1 through 5 were augmented by blinded ratings
of school - based ADHD and oppositional / aggressive
symptoms using the Abikoff Classroom Observational System35 and social skills and peer relations using peer sociometric procedures.
Children completed a measure
of their generalized conceptions
of relationships in the peer
domain and their level
of depressive
symptoms.
This study examined the differential developmental significance
of multiple
domains of peer reputation in childhood for current and future competence and
symptoms.
The severity
of subclinical positive and negative
symptoms was calculated by summing the individual severity subscales within each
symptom domain.
Indicators
of growth in externalizing and internalizing
symptoms were derived from multiple
domain growth models and used in person - centered growth mixture analyses.
For internalizing
symptoms, the relatively greater improvements for subjects given combined treatment are particularly noteworthy, as none
of our treatments were designed to address this
domain specifically.
Subclinical
symptoms were measured with the Comprehensive Assessment
of At - Risk Mental States (CAARMS)[37], which includes subscales assessing seven
domains of the psychosis prodrome.
The self - efficacy
domains did not predict subsequent levels
of depressive
symptoms.
We used a 3 - year cross-sequential longitudinal design to examine the relations between self - efficacy judgments in three different
domains (academic, social, resisting negative peer influences), cultural identity, theories
of intelligence, and depressive
symptoms.
This research adds to the current literature and advances our knowledge
of adolescent peer influence by highlighting the
domain specificity (e.g. substance use versus internalizing problems / depressive
symptoms)
of peer socialization, and the crucial role
of the friendship context.
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.
Finally, examining
domain specificity
of NCS in youth is a new important avenue
of research which can shed more light on the development
of the gender difference in depressive
symptoms.
Although internalizing
symptoms are frequently discussed as being involved in the etiology
of adolescent SU often through a self - medication mechanism (Khantzian 1997), the association between this
domain of symptoms and adolescent SU has been equivocal (Colder et al. 2010; Hussong et al. 2011).
In contrast, ODD and depressive
symptoms were the only
domains significantly positively associated with social problems when all
of the psychopathology variables were included in the path model.
Peer Influence and Friendship Contexts: The
Domain Specificity Hypothesis
of Alcohol Misuse and Depressive
Symptoms
Regarding the
domain specificity
of NCS, 1 results showed a significant four - way interaction between stressors, NCS - achievement, age, and gender (β = −.11, p =.02) in a similar way as with the aggregate NCS: NCS - achievement and depressive
symptoms were significantly related in middle to late adolescent boys reporting many stressors (β =.99, p =.001), but not in those reporting few stressors (β =.02, p =.95).
Negative cognitive style (i.e., tendency to make negative inferences) in the
domains of achievement and appearance was more strongly and consistently related to depressive
symptoms in girls compared to boys.
There has been little work examining both positive (e.g., acceptance) and negative (e.g., conflict) aspects
of parent — adolescent relationship quality in a single study, so this study contributes to our understanding
of how these processes affect adolescent diabetes management and depressive
symptoms across different
domains of the relationship with both mothers and fathers.
To investigate the comparative efficacy
of these agents on cognition and
symptoms in schizophrenia, and to identify promising cognitive
domains and candidate medications that can be incorporated in treatment trials combined with cognitive remediation to maximise treatment effects.
Third, internalizing and externalizing
symptoms are higher - order
symptom domains composed
of multiple
symptom clusters.
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.
Findings suggest that experiences with racism can have long lasting effects for African American youth's depressive
symptoms, and highlight the detrimental effects
of experiences with racism for perceptions
of control in the academic
domain.
In our young preschool sample, we expected
symptoms of ADHD to be related primarily to the two basic EF
domains inhibition and WM. Secondly, we investigated our hypothesis that the BRIEF - P Inhibit and Working Memory subscales would discriminate accurately between children in our sample who met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, and typically developing controls.
Antecedent correlational and regression analyses revealed significant links between borderline
symptoms in adulthood and endogenous (i.e., temperament) and environmental (e.g., attachment disorganization, parental hostility) history in early childhood and disturbance across
domains of child functioning (e.g., attention, emotion, behavior, relationship, self - representation) in middle childhood / early adolescence.
Initial levels
of stressors and depressive
symptoms predicted an increase in negative inferential style and maladaptive schema
domains over time.
Inferential style and schemas
of the disconnection and rejection
domain predicted prospective increases in depressive
symptoms.
ASD
symptom severity was the strongest predictor
of parental stress across all
domains.
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.
In our analyses we found that keeping anxiety
symptoms, depressive
symptoms and FSS in separate
domains showed better psychometric properties than a combination
of two or three
of them.
The findings suggest that women with ADHD
symptoms may face a number
of difficulties within the parenting
domain.