If children with autism can’t see the forest for the trees, that may be partly because the burden of processing all those…

Adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) respond well to treatment with Concerta, a once-daily extended-release form of the stimulant methylphenidate, researchers report.

“ADHD is an important disorder that affects approximately 6 percent…

Drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are generally safe, some doctors said on Thursday after U.S. health officials announced a meeting to discuss possible heart…

New imaging research at UCLA detailed Dec. 4 as an advance online publication of the journal Nature Neuroscience shows children with autism have virtually no activity…

Tourette’s disorder is a rare disorder in which the child demonstrates multiple involuntary motor and vocal tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.

Epidemiology
Tourette’s…

Conduct disorder is defined as a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or important age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated. Disordered behaviors include…

ADHD is characterized by a persistent and dysfunctional pattern of overactivity, impulsiveness, inattention, and distractibility.

Etiology
The disorder runs in families and cosegregates with mood disorders, substance use disorders, learning…

Autistic disorder is the most common of the pervasive developmental disorders of childhood onset.
It is characterized by the triad of impaired social interactions, impaired ability to communicate, and restricted repertoire of activities…

Learning disorders are characterized by performance in a specific area of learning (e.g., reading, writing, arithmetic) substantially below the expectation of a child’s chronologic age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education. The (DSM-IV) identifies three learning…

Patients with mental retardation have subnormal intelligence (as measured by IQ) combined with deficits in adaptive functioning. IQ is defined as the mental age (as assessed using a WISC-R) divided by the chronologic age and…