A controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a prevention program aimed at reducing depressive and anxious symptoms in rural school children. Seventh-grade children with elevated depression were selected. Nine primary schools (n = 90) were randomly assigned to receive the program, and 9 control schools (n = 99) received their usual health education classes. Children completed questionnaires on ...

This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1;6 to 2;11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). V...

Frequently, depression is a concomitant pathology in anorexia nervosa. To verify this, we carried out a comparative case/control study with 50 anorexic patients, restricting-type (ANP), 50 depressed patients (DP) and 50 non-patients (NP), aged between 13 and 16. We used the Rorschach Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and compared the results to parent's observation...

To contribute to the case for a dimensional conceptualization of psychopathology in general and maladaptive personality or personality disorders in particular, the present paper reviews the evidence for a dimensional representation of childhood temperament and personality. The review of temperament and variable-centered as well as person-centered approaches to childhood personality leads us to ...

Todd C. Villines, MD,* Edward A. Hulten, MD, MPH,* Leslee J. Shaw, PHD,† Manju Goyal, MD,* Allison Dunning, MS,‡ Stephan Achenbach, MD,§ Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD, MSC, Daniel S. Berman, MD,¶ Matthew J. Budoff, MD,# Filippo Cademartiri, MD, PHD,** Tracy Q. Callister, MD,†† Hyuk-Jae Chang, MD, PHD,‡‡ Victor Y. Cheng, MD,¶ Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD,§§ Benjamin J. W. Chow, MD, Augustin Delago, MD,¶¶ Martin...

The objective was to follow up a cohort of acidotic full-term infants with or without hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and determine if at 7 years they displayed any neurodevelopmental delays. Children (n=44) were divided according to those with mild (n=25) or severe (n=19) acidosis and were then further subdivided into those with or without HIE. Participants were assessed using the Wechsl...

Although symptom checklists are commonly used to assess child psychopathology, confusion arises due to differences between empirically derived checklist syndromes and rationally derived DSM-IV diagnostic categories. This paper explores analogue measures of DSM-IV mood and anxiety disorders created using items from the Youth Self-Report and Child Behavior Checklist (T. M. Achenbach, 1991a, 1991b...

An efficient design of control strategies for smart structures is based on a reliable simulation of the structural behavior. Due to its general applicability, the finite element method has become the most widely used simulation tool, and it is thus desirable to implement constitutive models for actuators into such a frame. The first part of the paper presents a finite element formulation for a ...

calcium scoring in symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease? Results from the prospective multicenter international CONFIRM registry. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2013. doi:10.1093/ehjci/jet148. First Published online ahead of print August 21, 2013. 2. Budoff MJ, Shaw LJ, Liu ST, Weinstein SR, Mosler TP, Tseng PH et al. Long-term prognosis associated with coronary calcifica...

Mothers and primary professional caregivers of 186 children, aged 6–30 months, participated in this study in which a new measure for daily stability in center day care was developed, describing staffing, grouping, and program features. Relative contributions of infants’ daily experiences of care stability, quality of care, and mother’s daily stress to the child’s adjustment to day care were ana...