Childhood-versus adolescent-onset antisocial youth with conduct disorder: Psychiatric illness, neuropsychological and psychosocial function

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Johnson, Vicki A ^a   Kemp, Andrew H ^a,b   Heard, Robert ^a   Lennings, Christopher J ^c,d   Hickie, Ian B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Lennings Seidler Collins Psychology: Clinical and Forensic Psychology Services   (Australia)

^d CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CAMBRIDGE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST AUTOMATED BATTERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MEASURE OF AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY; COMPOSITE MEASURE OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED ORAL WORD ASSOCIATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE 21; EFFECT SIZE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FAMILY DYSFUNCTION MEASURES; FEMALE; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; KESSLER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS SCALE 10; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSIS; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; REY COMPLEX FIGURE TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF CONDUCT DISORDER; SEVERITY OF DEPENDENCE SCALE; SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTIONING ASSESSMENT SCALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE III; WECHSLER TEST OF ADULT READING; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE OF ONSET; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDUCT DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926660311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121627     Document Type: Article

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