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‘To strive, to seek, to find’: A call for RCTs
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is widely held as the gold standard for clinical trials.
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PTSD Edition
Trauma can occur in many forms from single exposure to a life-threatening or fear-inducing event, to sustained trauma ranging from neglect, other abuses, famine or war. All of which can present in clinical practice.
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Professor Maggie Snowling – Reading and language – ‘Future challenges for the science of child psychology and psychiatry’
Recorded lecture from Professor Maggie Snowling, at the Wellcome Collection, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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ACAMH at 60 – Time to Make Use of All That Wisdom
ACAMH is 60 years old this year, and we are celebrating. But we are not standing still. Looking forward we noticed gaps in our offering. Gaps that we now intend to fill in the quest of better bridging the translation gaps from ‘lab to bedside’.
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‘Myth-busting around attachment theory’ Professor Pasco Fearon
Professor Pasco Fearon on ‘Myth-busting around attachment theory’. Recorded on Friday 8 March 2019 at the Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture & National Conference ‘Attachment & early intervention: Improving emotional wellbeing and relationships in the family, and at school’ ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Abnormal visual fixation does not mediate deficits in emotion recognition in conduct disorder
Studies have shown that conduct disorder (CD) is associated with impaired recognition of facial emotions1, but whether the cause of this deficit is due to difficulties with attention, interpretation and/or appraisal is unclear. Now, researchers at the Universities of Southampton and Bath have addressed this question.
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Aggression toward siblings during the preschool years: When does it become atypical?
Most children grow up with siblings. During early childhood, siblings spend a great deal of time together and must navigate challenging situations such as sharing toys and parental attention, features that make conflict inevitable and often emotionally intense.
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Comorbid anxiety disorder has a protective effect in conduct disorder
The presence of comorbid anxiety disorders (ADs) counteracts the effects of conduct disorder (CD) on facial emotion recognition, according to new research by Roxana Short and colleagues.
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Cortical thickness can differentiate conduct disorder subtypes
A study by Graeme Fairchild and colleagues has used a neuroimaging approach to compare the structural organization (or “covariance”) of brain regions between youths with different subtypes of conduct disorder (CD) and healthy controls (HC).
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Psychological interventions have a small but significant effect in young children with conduct disorder
In 2017, Mireille Bakker and colleagues performed a systematic review and meta-analysis for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, of the currently available psychological treatments for children and adolescents with conduct disorder problems. Here, we summarise the researcher’s key findings and the potential clinical implications for this field.
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