BACKGROUND Children of parents with bipolar disorder are at increased risk of disturbance. AIMS This study examined relationships between parental mood, parenting, household organization and child emotional and behavioural adjustment in families with a parent with bipolar disorder to determine areas of specific need for parenting support. METHOD 48 parents were recruited through advertiseme...

We used Support Vector Machine (SVM) to perform multivariate pattern classification based on brain activation during emotional processing in healthy participants with subclinical depressive symptoms. Six-hundred undergraduate students completed the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). Two groups were subsequently formed: (i) subclinical (mild) mood disturbance (n = 17) and (ii) no mood distur...

Functional neuroimaging techniques enable noninvasive measurements of cognitive functions in humans. We used functional neuroimaging to assess cognitive disturbance in a patient with mild cognitive impairment. The patient was a 58-year-old male with a mild memory disturbance, a mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score of 22 30, and a Clinical Dementia Rating Scale of 0.5. On the Wechsler Adul...

The association between personality disturbance and depression has been noted consistently. Prospective tests of personality's impact on the course of depression, however, are lacking. In a sample of 159 undergraduates who experienced at least one prospective depressive episode, dimensional scores for clusters B and C personality disturbance were examined as prospective predictors of four indic...

The aim of this article is to present a selective review of the research on children's psychological responses to hospitalisation. Children vary in their capacities to cope with the stress of hospitalisation. A significant proportion of them, however, suffer from some degree of emotional disturbance due to the experience. Prolonged and repeated hospitalisation increases the chance of later prob...

BACKGROUND Psychological, social, and extraintestinal (somatic) disturbances are prominent features of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID); little attention, however, has been given to differences in the nature of these disturbances in the various FGID subgroups. AIMS (1) To determine whether psychological, social, and extraintestinal factors are associated with specific FGID, and/or...

One promising avenue toward a better understanding of the pathophysiology of positive emotional disturbances is to examine high-frequency heart rate variability (HRV-HF), which has been implicated as a potential physiological index of disturbances in positive emotional functioning. To date, only a few psychopathology relevant studies have systematically quantified HRV-HF profiles using more eco...

BACKGROUND Young people with intellectual disability exhibit substantial and persistent problem behaviours compared with their non-disabled peers. The aim of this study was to compare changes in emotional and behavioural problems for young people with intellectual disability with and without Down syndrome as they transition into adulthood in two different Australian cohorts. METHODS Emotional...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this prospective study was to identify risk factors for the development of psychological disturbance in sexually abused children, enabling recognition of the need for appropriate psychological intervention and provision. METHOD A city-wide study of children aged 16 or under was carried out, with all cases of CSA requiring investigation within 12 months included. Data were...