European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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Nutrition, immunological mechanisms and dietary immunomodulation in ADHD

Annelies A. J. Verlaet, Daniela Briceno Noriega, Nina Hermans, Huub F. J. Savelkoul

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 519-529

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) etiology is not completely understood, but common comorbid dysfunction of the gastrointestinal and immune system suggests that these systems may be affected by a common genetic background and molecular mechanisms. For example, increased levels of specific cytokines were observed in ADHD. Moreover, ADHD has a high comorbidity with both Th1- and Th2-mediated...

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Risk-behaviour screening for identifying adolescents with mental health problems in Europe

Michael Kaess, Romuald Brunner, Peter Parzer, Vladimir Carli, more

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 611-620

Indicated prevention of mental illness is an important public health concern among youth. The aim of this study was to establish a European school-based professional screening among adolescents, which included variables on both a broad range of risk-behaviours and psychopathology; and to investigate the indicative value of adolescent risk-behaviour and self-reported psychopathology on help-seeking...

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Psychiatric disorders in preschoolers: the structure of DSM-IV symptoms and profiles of comorbidity

Lars Wichstrøm, Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 551-562

Psychiatric disorders have been increasingly recognized in preschool children; at present, however, we know comparatively less about how well current diagnostic manuals capture the symptoms described in this age group and how comorbidity is patterned. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether the symptoms defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition...

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Facial emotion recognition in adolescents with personality pathology

Fleur Berenschot, Marcel A. G. Aken, Christel Hessels, Bram Orobio Castro, more

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 563-570

It has been argued that a heightened emotional sensitivity interferes with the cognitive processing of facial emotion recognition and may explain the intensified emotional reactions to external emotional stimuli of adults with personality pathology, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study examines if and how deviations in facial emotion recognition also occur in adolescents with...

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Anhedonia and depressed mood in adolescence: course, stability, and reciprocal relation in the TRAILS study

Elise C. Bennik, Esther Nederhof, Johan Ormel, Albertine J. Oldehinkel

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 579-586

Adolescence is marked by increases in the incidence of major depression (MDD), a disorder recognized as one of the leading causes of disability. Anhedonia and depressed mood predict both onset and chronicity of major depression (MDD), but have never been studied together longitudinally in the general adolescent population. The present study examined (1) the course and the stability of anhedonia and...

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Outcomes of childhood conduct problem trajectories in early adulthood: findings from the ALSPAC study

Tina Kretschmer, Matthew Hickman, Rita Doerner, Alan Emond, more

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 539-549

Although conduct problems in childhood are stably associated with problem outcomes, not every child who presents with conduct problems is at risk. This study extends previous studies by testing whether childhood conduct problem trajectories are predictive of a wide range of other health and behavior problems in early adulthood using a general population sample. Based on 7,218 individuals from the...

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Child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 621-622

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Change in psychological problems of adolescents with and without visual impairment

Martin Pinquart, Jens P. Pfeiffer

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 571-578

The present study analyzed change in psychological problems of German adolescents with and without visual impairment across a 2-year interval. A total of 182 adolescents with severe visual impairment and 560 sighted adolescents provided longitudinal data. At the start of the study, adolescents with visual impairment had, on average, elevated scores on all difficulties scales of the Strengths and Difficulties...

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Deficits in motor abilities and developmental fractionation of imitation performance in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders

Monica Biscaldi, Reinhold Rauh, Lisa Irion, Nikolai H. Jung, more

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 599-610

The co-occurrence of motor and imitation disabilities often characterises the spectrum of deficits seen in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Whether these seemingly separate deficits are inter-related and whether, in particular, motor deficits contribute to the expression of imitation deficits is the topic of the present study and was investigated by comparing these deficits’ cross-sectional...

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Economic impact of childhood/adolescent ADHD in a European setting: the Netherlands as a reference case

Hoa H. Le, Paul Hodgkins, Maarten J. Postma, Jennifer Kahle, more

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 587-598

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder in children/adolescents. This study reviews available European-based studies of ADHD-related costs and applies the findings to the Netherlands to estimate annual national costs for children/adolescents from a societal perspective. A systematic literature search was conducted for primary studies in Europe, published...

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On the link between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and obesity: do comorbid oppositional defiant and conduct disorder matter?

Ursula Pauli-Pott, John Neidhard, Monika Heinzel-Gutenbrunner, Katja Becker

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2014 > 23 > 7 > 531-537

The link between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and elevated body weight/obesity can be regarded as well established. Because oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)/conduct disorder (CD) has also been found to be associated with these characteristics and ADHD and ODD/CD often occur comorbidly, we investigated whether ODD/CD and ADHD are independently linked with body weight and obesity...