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Management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the importance of psychosocial and medication treatmentsAlasdair Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 48:E33-7. 2012..This annotation briefly outlines the emerging evidence that supports the role of psychosocial treatment alongside medication treatment in the management of ADHD. Future significant clinical directions are noted...
Right parietal dysfunction in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type: a functional MRI studyA Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 12:826-32, 793. 2007..Our findings with a child cohort confirm previous reports of right striatal-parietal dysfunction in adolescents with ADHD-CT. This dysfunction suggests a widespread maturational deficit that may be developmental stage independent...- Visuospatial memory deficits in adolescent onset schizophreniaA Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia
Schizophr Res 93:345-9. 2007..The impaired encoding phase of visuospatial memory in the adolescent-onset schizophrenia group is consistent with findings in adult onset schizophrenia samples, suggesting a developmental stage-independent deficit... - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type, dysthymic disorder and anxiety disorders: differential patterns of neurodevelopmental deficitsAlasdair Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia
Psychiatry Res 143:213-22. 2006..Future studies will explore whether the above more specific neurological subtle signs are developmental phase specific or independent associations... - Visuospatial working memory deficits in adolescent onset schizophreniaA Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Royal Children s Hospital and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia
Schizophr Res 87:223-7. 2006.... - Dysthymic disorder contributes to oppositional defiant behaviour in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, combined type (ADHD-CT)Alasdair Vance
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
J Affect Disord 86:329-33. 2005.... - The association of visuospatial working memory with dysthymic disorder in pre-pubertal childrenT Franklin
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Royal Children s Hospital and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 40:253-61. 2010..This study investigates VSWM impairment in children with DD... - Contextual abnormalities of saccadic inhibition in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorderS Cairney
The Neurophysiology nd Neurovisual Research Unit, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052
Exp Brain Res 141:507-18. 2001..Furthermore, deficits in executive function and inhibitory control appear independent in children with ADHD... - Abnormal executive function in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the effect of stimulant medication and age on spatial working memoryR Barnett
Maroondah Hospital Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 31:1107-15. 2001..These deficits were not present in the current sample of children who were receiving psychostimulant medication... - Fronto-parietal activation in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type: functional magnetic resonance imaging studyT Silk
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 187:282-3. 2005..These different neuroactivation patterns indicate widespread frontal, striatal and parietal dysfunction in adolescents with ADHD-CT... - Characteristics of internalizing and externalizing disorders in medication-naive, clinically referred children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type and dysthymic disorderMichelle Sanders
University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne Victoria 3052, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:359-65. 2005..From a research perspective, it is important to confirm these found associations in larger samples derived from epidemiological populations... - Lateralized deficit of response inhibition in early-onset schizophreniaMark A Bellgrove
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 36:495-505. 2006..Relatively few studies have examined response inhibition in schizophrenia, and none in adolescent patients with early-onset schizophrenia (EOS)... - Which anxiety disorders may differentiate attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type with dysthymic disorder from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type alone?Alasdair Vance
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:563-9. 2003..We investigated the association of anxiety, defined from a parent or child perspective, with primary school-age children with ADHD-CT with and without dysthymic disorder... - Neurocognitive function in attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder with and without comorbid disruptive behaviour disordersRebecca Barnett
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:722-30. 2009.... - Comparison of psychosocial correlates in primary school age children with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder- combined type, with and without dysthymic disorderKatrina Harris
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Melbourne, Vic, 3052, Australia
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 36:419-26. 2006.... - Repeated assessment of cognition in children and the measurement of performance changeCatherine M Mollica
School of Psychological Science, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Child Neuropsychol 11:303-10. 2005..An estimate of the measurement error within each of the tests is provided, and recommendations are made regarding the application of this assessment battery for measuring cognitive change in children... - Measuring psychosocial risk in families caring for a child with cancer: the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT2.0)Maria C McCarthy
Children s Cancer Centre, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Pediatr Blood Cancer 53:78-83. 2009..0 in an Australian pediatric oncology sample. Further aims included examining mothers' and fathers' PAT2.0 scores, change in psychosocial risk over time, and the relationship between treatment intensity and psychosocial risk... - Local-global processing in early-onset schizophrenia: evidence for an impairment in shifting the spatial scale of attentionMark A Bellgrove
Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia
Brain Cogn 51:48-65. 2003..These findings suggest an impaired ability to shift the spatial scale of attention from a global to a local spatial scale in early-onset schizophrenia... - Olfactory impairments in child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderFelicity R Karsz
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1462-8. 2008.... - Development of a statistical approach to classifying treatment response in individual children with ADHDCatherine M Mollica
School of Psychological Science, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Hum Psychopharmacol 19:445-56. 2004..This study demonstrates an evidence-based approach to evaluating concurrent cognitive and behavioural improvement in individual children with ADHD following treatment with stimulant medication... - Differences in motor imagery between children with developmental coordination disorder with and without the combined type of ADHDMatthew Lewis
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:608-12. 2008..These findings add to the emerging literature characterizing intended and actual motor impairments associated with DCD alone... - Psychosocial factors associated with parent and teacher reports of aggression in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorderAmanda Connolly
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 44:667-75. 2010..It was hypothesized that greater impairment in each would be associated with higher levels of both parent-rated and teacher-rated aggression... - Developing the 'youth model' in mental health servicesPeter Birleson
Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 16:22-6. 2008..Health service planning must pay attention to developmental differences. Several suggestions are proposed for addressing the mental health needs of young adults... - A possible behavioural and cognitive phenotype for the 47,XYY karyotype in a pre-pubertal childChris Davey
Academic Child Psychiatry Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 15:72-4. 2007..CONCLUSIONS: Longitudinal study of 47,XYY cases recognized prenatally are needed to confirm the preliminary findings described in this report... - Characteristics of parent- and child-reported anxiety in psychostimulant medication naïve, clinically referred children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type (ADHD-CT)Alasdair Vance
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:234-9. 2002..We describe the characteristics of parent-reported child anxiety disorders and child-reported anxiety disorders in primary school-age children with ADHD-CT... - Randomized double-blind multicentre placebo-controlled clinical trial of the clonidine adhesive patch for the treatment of tic disordersYa song Du
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:807-13. 2008..The aim of the present study was to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness and safety of the clonidine adhesive patch in treating tic disorders... - Genetics of cognitive deficits in ADHD: clues for novel treatment methodsMark A Bellgrove
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology and the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Queensland, Australia
Expert Rev Neurother 8:553-61. 2008....