Like adults, children and adolescents can get depressed, displaying persistent sadness and loss of interest in once pleasurable activities, including a sense of discouragement and feelings of ...

Therapy that involves the parents in the treatment of children with disruptive behavior disorders shows the best results compared to more than 20 other therapeutic approaches, according to a new study ...

Many news outlets have reported an increase—or surge—in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, diagnoses in both children and adults. At the same time ...

Researchers examined clinical outcomes and treatment patterns among youths with ADHD, internalizing disorders, and comorbid disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

Disruptive behaviors fall into three main categories: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and ADHD. A diagnosis of ADHD is made after a six-month duration of symptoms which are expressed ...

Children born to parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology than children born to parents without these conditions. The corresponding study as ...

Roughly every month I receive an e-mail from a parent somewhere in the world asking for help with a child who is violent, angry or aggressive. Some people describe being physically beaten or having ...

Where mood disorders can cause temporary or fluctuating changes in mood, personality disorders cause symptoms that remain consistent over time and across a range of situations. For example, bipolar ...

Findings from a recent study suggest iron deficiency anemia (IDA) independently and significantly increases the odds of ischemic stroke in young adults. The research is published in the journal eJHaem ...