OBJECTIVE To examine current training in developmental disabilities in Canadian psychiatry residency programs and to determine, from the programs' perspectives, how provinces across Canada are responding to the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and comorbid mental health disturbances (persons with a "dual diagnosis"). METHOD A survey was completed by residency directors, or the...

Family plays a role in supporting child development, by facilitating caregiving and other parental practices. Low- middle-income families typically have complex structure with many relatives living together the same household. The of family complexity children disabilities is still unknown. In this study, we use data from N = 22,405 severe (N 876) mild or no disability 21,529) large dataset col...

Converging evidence from a number of neuroimaging studies, including our own, suggest that fluent word identification in reading is related to the functional integrity of two consolidated left hemisphere (LH) posterior systems: a dorsal (temporo-parietal) circuit and a ventral (occipito-temporal) circuit. This posterior system is functionally disrupted in developmental dyslexia. Reading disable...

Child developmental disability (CDD) is an emerging global health priority. More than 140 million children live with a disability in unfavorable socioeconomic conditions worldwide. A review including 80 papers documented a lack of high-quality research into CDD. Few of these studies were conducted in Latin America, and the only Brazilian epidemiological study was focused on hearing loss. A revi...

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW Persons with intellectual disability come into frequent and underreported contact with the legal system. Advances in forensic psychiatry help better identify persons with intellectual disability in forensic contexts, inform evaluation and treatment, and elucidate unique characteristics of this population. With the release of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diso...

Microdeletions in chromosome 17q22, where the NOG gene resides, have been reported leading to the NOG-related symphalangism spectrum disorder (NOG-SSD), intellectual disability and other developmental abnormalities. In this study we reported a dominant Chinese Han family segregating with typical NOG-SSD symptoms including proximal symphalangism, conductive hearing loss, amblyopia and strabismus...