Therapy that involves the parents in the treatment of children with disruptive behavior disorders shows the best results compared to more than 20 other therapeutic approaches, according to a new study ...

Tweens who spend more time on screens have a higher likelihood of developing disruptive behavior disorders, with social media having an especially strong influence, a new UC San Francisco-led study ...

In preschool and school-aged children with disruptive behavior disorders, programs involving parents — either alone or with the child and a caregiver or teacher — were associated with reductions in ...

Disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs) encompass a spectrum of persistent patterns of antisocial, defiant or aggressive conduct emerging in childhood and adolescence. The two principal diagnoses, ...

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from Yale Child Study Center. Their brains appear to get stuck in states with ...

Children exposed to cannabis in the womb are over three times more likely to develop behavioral problems than non-exposed peers, found a new study published in Psychiatry Research. The findings ...

Findings from a recent study suggest iron deficiency anemia (IDA) independently and significantly increases the odds of ischemic stroke in young adults. The research is published in the journal eJHaem ...

In the wake of the collapse of defiant misbehaviors as childhood precursors or expressions of bipolar disorder, psychiatrists must again decide how to organize and understand irritable and willful ...

Black children with vitiligo are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, including depression, suicidal ideation, and disruptive behavior disorders, than matched controls ...

Before Oscar* got kicked out of his first preschool, he was upset about lunch. Not long into the school year, the 4-year-old expressed his displeasure with the midday meal by dousing his tray with ...

Kids often squirm, fidget, talk too much, or don’t want to take turns. It’s not unusual for any kid to have trouble paying attention sometimes. But for almost 10% of kids with ADHD (attention deficit ...