The use of psychotropic medications in children: an American view

Article Abstract:

Some psychotropic drugs have provided consistently positive results in treating various childhood mental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety and depression disorders. However, the specificity, efficacy, and number of these interventions for children remains less understood than those for adults.

Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Psychotherapeutic Preparations, Usage, Drug therapy, Childhood mental disorders, Psychotropic drugs, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Child psychopathology, Anxiety in children, Childhood anxiety

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Normal variation and abnormality: an empirical study of the liability distributions underlying depression and delinquency

Article Abstract:

Scale scores used in behavioral and emotional problems often use highly skewed distributions. Creating quantitative assessment scales can simplify psychiatric research by directly testing whether processes leading to extreme levels of symptomatology are or are not common to those generating variation at less severe levels.

Public affairs, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Juvenile Delinquency, Social aspects, Care and treatment

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Do children with autism fail to process information in context?

Article Abstract:

Autistic children do not, as is often thought, have difficulty in connecting context and item information. Research instead suggests such children cannot readily use sentence context to determine meaning for complex verbal stimuli.

Cognition, Autistic children

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