Courts cite teen brain science to soften sentences; experts warn generalized neuroscience overreaches and adult responsibility stabilizes by 18 to 20.
|Articles|April 24, 2013
Slideshow: Developmental Psychopathology Comes of Age
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Key Takeaways
- Developmental psychopathology perspectives can refine differential diagnosis and longitudinal management strategies for mood disorders, ADHD, and psychotic presentations in general psychiatry.
- A streamlined slide set summarizes traumatic brain injury with emphasis on psychiatric sequelae, evaluation considerations, and implications for ongoing clinical monitoring.
Traumatic brain injury, criminal responsibility, traumatic stress, and autism spectrum/neurodevelopmental disorders slideshow
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Child and adolescent psychiatry is in a position to inform the entire practice of general psychiatry in areas such as mood disorders, ADHD, and psychosis. This slideshow (
DSM-IV
DSM-5
• Autistic disorder, Asperger disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder NOS
• Autism spectrum disorder
• No equivalent DSM-IV diagnosis
• Social communication disorder
• Rett disorder
• Not included in DSM-5
• Mental retardation
• Intellectual disability
• Reading disorder
• Dyslexia
• Mathematics disorder
• Dyscalculia
• Disorder of written expression and learning disorder not otherwise specified
• Unspecified learning disorder
• Expressive language disorder
• Language impairment, late language emergence, or specific language impairment
• Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
• No equivalent DSM-5 diagnosis
• Stuttering
• Childhood onset fluency disorder
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