OBJECTIVES To examine very long term psychosocial outcome following severe brain injury in a large cohort, with the aim of evaluating Thomsen's observation that even after very serious head trauma the long term outcome in some patients is reasonably good. METHODS The cohort consisted of 80 patients who had suffered severe brain injury evaluated at a mean time of 17 years post injury (range 10...

BACKGROUND Experience in institutional/orphanage care has been linked to increased mental health problems. Research suggests that children adopted from institutions experience specific difficulties related to inattention/overactivity. Evidence of internalizing and conduct problems relative to non-adopted peers has been found in early childhood and early adolescence, but problems may not differ ...

CONTEXT To our knowledge, no population study examining psychosocial and psychiatric risk factors associated with cyberbullying among adolescents exists. OBJECTIVE To study cross-sectional associations between cyberbullying and psychiatric and psychosomatic problems among adolescents. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS The sample consists of 221...

The goal was to examine processes in socialization that might account for an observed relation between early socioeconomic status and later child behavior problems. A representative sample of 585 children (n = 51 from the lowest socioeconomic class) was followed from preschool to grade 3. Socioeconomic status assessed in preschool significantly predicted teacher-rated externalizing problems and...

Despite knowledge of early pathways to conduct problems, few preventive interventions are specifically designed to modify disruptive behavior in toddlerhood. One potential prevention target is proactive and positive parenting, which is associated with reduced risk of conduct problems in preschoolers. This randomized trial with 120 low-income 2-year-old boys examined whether a brief family-cente...

OBJECTIVE To compare the official arrest records for a large number of hyperactive boys (N = 179), most with conduct problems, and 75 control boys; to examine childhood IQ, socioeconomic status, and parent reports of childhood hyperactivity and conduct problems for their contribution to criminal behavior in adulthood; and to compare adult outcome for multimodality-treated (MMT) and drug-treated...

We extend the DuBois-Reymond necessary optimality condition and Noether’s symmetry theorem to the scale relativity theory setting. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian versions of Noether’s theorem are proved, covering problems of the calculus of variations with functionals defined on sets of non-differentiable functions, as well as more general non-differentiable problems of optimal control. As an ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine whether there was an association between mothers' light drinking during pregnancy and risk of behavioural problems, and cognitive deficits in their children at age 3 years. METHODS Data from the first two sweeps of the nationally representative prospective UK Millennium Cohort study were used. Drinking patterns during pregnancy and behav...

ED FROM Furlong M, McGilloway S, Bywater T, et al. Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural group-based parenting programmes for early-onset conduct problems in children aged 3 to 12 years. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;2:CD008225. Correspondence to: Mairead Furlong, Department of Psychology, John Hume Building, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland; mairead.m.fu...

Previous studies have documented that smoking during pregnancy (SDP) is associated with offspring externalizing problems, even when measured covariates were used to control for possible confounds. However, the association may be because of nonmeasured environmental and genetic factors that increase risk for offspring externalizing problems. The current project used the National Longitudinal Sur...