Conduct Disorder
“Conduct disorder” refers to a group of repetitive and persistent behavioral and emotional problems in youngsters. Children and adolescents with this disorder have great difficulty following rules, respecting the rights of others, showing empathy, and behaving in a socially acceptable way.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W048
Diagnosis: Conduct Disorder
US Patients: 1-10% of children
World Patients: 51Mil
Sex Ratio: 3-4M;1F
Age Onset: Before 10
Brain Area: lower responses to social behavior:amygdala, insula, orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial-pfc; less gray matter
Symptoms: lower-level appropriateness to child’s age; anti-social or violent, biting and hitting, later delinquency & truancy, defiance
Progression: IQ-1SD below Mean; defective veral rasoning and executive function;lower serotonin & cortisol-less regulation
Causes: child abuse; alcohol abuse, maternal smoking during pregnancy;leads to earlier substance abuse; 25% learning disability
Medications: 53% heritability;
Therapies: reduced substance abuse helps 1/2
Youtube Video: This is Conduct Disorder
Amazon or Library Book: Anti-Social Youth and Conduct Disorders
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: mhanational.org;
(Parents of Children with Conduct Disorder)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Testing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Potential Efficacy of an Innovative Digital Mental Health Care Delivery Model Designed to Increase Access to Care: Open Trial of the Digital Clinicby Natalia Macrynikola on January 29, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that the Digital Clinic model is feasible, acceptable, and potentially efficacious, warranting a future randomized controlled trial to establish the efficacy of this innovative model of care.
- Neurocognitive performance in obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after treatment with cognitive behavioral therapyby Michael G Wheaton on January 29, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that task control deficits in OCD may be sensitive to symptom state. The possibility that improving task control represents a neurocognitive mechanism of successful CBT represents an important direction for future research.
- Insights into prescribing patterns for antidepressants: an evidence-based analysisby Hua Min on January 28, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide valuable insights into the nuanced factors that shape evidence-based antidepressant prescribing practices, offering a foundation for more personalized, effective depression treatment. Further research is needed to validate these models in other extant databases. These findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of antidepressant prescribing practices and have the potential to improve patient outcomes in the management of depression.
- Mental Health Assessment of the Population: Study Protocol of the MAP Research Program in Ukraine (MAP-U) and in Zurich (MAP-Z)by Viktoriia Yasenok on January 28, 2025
CONCLUSION: MAP will generate reliable, comparable, and high-quality epidemiological data to inform public mental health and healthcare policies in the Ukrainian population.