The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), the K-SADS Mania Rating Scale (KMRS), and the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R) across four age groups (4-7, 8-10, 11-13, and 14-17 years). The interrater reliability of K-SADS diagnoses was also examined. Participants included 1,014 youths (62.1% male) ...

PURPOSE To identify the variables associated with severe action decisions (SADs) (unspecified accreditation term, warning status, probation status) by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) regarding the accreditation status of established MD-granting medical education programs in the United States and Canada. METHOD The authors reviewed all LCME decisions made on full survey repor...

Herein we describe the construction of hexadecameric self-assembled dendrimers (SADs) using a series of dendronized 8-(m-acetylphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine (mAG) subunits. The azido-substituted mAG subunits were covalently linked to alkynyl polyester dendrons using a copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. Discrete SADs are formed with high fidelity and thermal stability even with the...

BACKGROUND Distinguishing pediatric bipolar disorder (BD) from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be challenging. Hyperactivity is a core feature of both disorders, but severely disturbed sleep and circadian dysregulation are more characteristic of BD, at least in adults. We tested the hypothesis that objective measures of activity, sleep, and circadian rhythms would help diffe...

The species abundance distribution (SAD) is one of the most intensively studied distributions in ecology and its hollow-curve shape is one of ecology's most general patterns. We examine the SAD in the context of all possible forms having the same richness (S) and total abundance (N), i.e. the feasible set. We find that feasible sets are dominated by similarly shaped hollow curves, most of which...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) have played a historical role in the development of community ecology. They summarize information about the number and the relative abundance of the species encountered in a sample from a given community. For years ecologists have developed theory to characterize species abundance patterns, and the study of these patterns has received special attention in ...

BACKGROUND The knowledge and attitude of parents about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a public health issue in which management and rehabilitation approaches may be influenced. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of the parents of children with ADHD towards this disorder in Tabriz, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current cross-sectio...

This article represents the French translation of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), developed by researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University (New York) to permit the selection of homogeneous samples of patients presenting with a defined psychiatric illness. The SADS was developed in the mid-1970s in an effort to provide research i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of paroxetine in adolescents with unipolar major depression. METHOD Two hundred eighty-six (286) adolescents with unipolar major depression were randomly assigned to receive either paroxetine or placebo for 12 weeks. RESULTS The proportion of Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) responders (at...