The number of children in the US taking prescription drugs for emotional and behavioral disturbances is growing dramatically. This growth in the use of psychotropic drugs in pediatric populations has given rise to multiple controversies, ranging from concerns over off-label use and long-term safety to debates about the societal value and cultural meaning of pharmacological treatment of childhoo...

This article describes the structural and emotional disturbances in families with one or more members affected by Huntington's disease, according to the different symptoms, the affected member (offspring, parent) and the different stages of the disease. We consider that support services to the family should be made up of professionals who are specialists in the specific needs of the disease and...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is commonly proposed to be characterized by an enhanced sensitivity for emotional stimuli. In the present study, we investigated whether BPD patients show a superior detection of emotional facial expressions relative to healthy controls. The detection of emotional information in the environment represents an important facet of emotional sensitivi...

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Aptitude; Behavior Patterns; *Children; Cognitive Processes; Comprehension; Curriculum Development; Diagnostic Tests; *Educational Diagnosis; Emotional Disturbances; Intelligence; *Intelligence Tests; Learning Disabilities; Measurement Techniques; Measures (Individuals); Perceptual Development; *Performance Tests; Prediction; Scaling; Student Place...

Patients with limbic encephalitis usually present with new onset mesial temporal lobe seizures, progressive memory disturbance, and a variety of other behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes. Autoimmune inflammation of the limbic gray matter structures of the human brain has recently been identified as major cause of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with interictal temporal epileptiform activ...

This article reviews a program of research using a newly developed questionnaire, the Quality of Life Inventory, to describe the effects of liver transplantation. Although recovery does not return to premorbid level, liver transplantation is effective in reversing cognitive, emotional, behavioral and physical capacity disturbances.

Purpose: The Vineland-II is a standardized norm-referenced assessment tool that can be used for: • measuring an individual’s daily functioning • measuring deficits in adaptive behavior • clinical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, genetic disorders, developmental • delays, emotional and behavioral disturbances as well as other mental, physical or • injury related conditions • developmental...

Purpose: The Vineland-II is a standardized norm-referenced assessment tool that can be used for: • measuring an individual’s daily functioning • measuring deficits in adaptive behavior • clinical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, genetic disorders, developmental • delays, emotional and behavioral disturbances as well as other mental, physical or • injury related conditions • developmental...

Objective: The unprecedented nature of Covid pandemic and cessation of full face-to face affiliation along with homebound restrictions have caused a variety of psychological distress among adolescents. Adolescents vary in the way they perceive such stressors and some respond with eating disturbances which could reflect their dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies.  The present research was...

the cerebral cortex can be functionally subdivided into primary sensory-motor, unimodal association, heteromodal association, paralimbic and limbic regions. broca was the first who described limbic lobe in 1874, as a ring of gray matter, lying between the diencephalon and more lateral neocortex on the medial surface of the hemisphers. it locates outside of the corpus callosum and consists of su...