OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to determine the rate of psychopathology in the children of parents with bipolar disorder and to examine the relationship between the psychopathology in these children and the characteristics of bipolar disorder in their parents. METHOD The study included 36 children of 28 bipolar I parents and 33 children of 28 control parents, all between the ages of 6 ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the predictive validity and clinical significance of chronic irritability during early childhood. This prospective, longitudinal study examined associations of preschool chronic irritability with psychiatric disorders, functional impairment, and service use at age nine in a large community sample. METHODS Four hundred and forty-six children were assessed at ag...

BACKGROUND Supraglottic airway devices (SADs) play an increasing role in airway management in clinical anaesthesia and emergency medicine. Until now, no data exist concerning the extent of oesophageal insufflation when oropharyngeal leak pressures are exceeded. METHODS Laryngeal masks LMA-Supreme™ and LMA-ProSeal™, laryngeal tubes LTS-D and LTS II, Combitube™, and I-Gel were inserted into unf...

Competition is the main driver of population dynamics, which shapes the genetic composition of populations and the assembly of ecological communities. Neutral models neglect the effects of selection and niche partitioning, such that all individuals are equivalent and the dynamics is governed by demographic (shot) noise. Despite their great success in explaining static properties of communities,...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) are increasingly used to investigate how species community structure changes in response environmental variations. SAD models depict the relative of recorded a and express fundamental aspects structure, namely patterns commonness rarity. However, influence differences conditions on characteristics is still poorly understood. In this study we carabid beetle...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that it is important to have well-standardized procedures for identifying the mental health needs of youths in welfare and juvenile justice institutions. One of the most widely used tools for mental health screening in the juvenile justice system is the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-second version (MAYSI-2). To contribute to the body of research e...

the aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction between parents of children with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (adhd) and parents of normal children.in this study we have selected 400 parents (200 parents of children with adhd and 200 parents of normal children), whose children age range was 6-18 years. data were collected using enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire, k...