Abstract Background:Drug abuse is usually associated with behavioral disorders in children especially conduct disorder. This study investigated the behavioral disorders of children whose parents were opium or heroin dependent in compare with children whose parents were non-addicts to find the effects of drug abuse on offspring's behavior disorders by adjusting intervening factors. Met...

objective: an important concept for understanding emotional disorders is emotion regulation. the present study focuses on effectiveness of transdiagnostic therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy. methods: this study was a pretest/posttest randomized control trial. a diagnostically heterogeneous clinical sample o...

Introduction: Adenoid hypertrophy is the most common cause of chronic airway obstruction in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adenotonsillectomy on sleep and behavioral disorders in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy.   Materials and Methods: In a prospective observational study, all children with an indication of adenotonsillectomy based on American Academy of...

OBJECTIVE To introduce pediatricians to the psychiatric and behavioral disorders that most frequently affect children with epilepsy, qualifying them to diagnose, evaluate risk factors and guide the treatment of these children. SOURCES OF DATA MEDLINE (1979 to 2003) and epilepsy clinic at the Neuropediatrics Center, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Children wit...