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Commentary: What is the meaning and utility of the psychopathy concept?Michael Rutter
SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:499-503. 2005....
Commentary: Nature-nurture interplay in emotional disordersMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Development Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:934-44. 2003
Is sub-nutrition necessary for a poor outcome following early institutional deprivation?Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke
Social, Genetic, Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, University of London, London, UK
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:664-71. 2008..Further studies of functional and structural neuroanatomy following institutional deprivation are required to delineate the role of brain development in its effects...
The caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial historyJulia Kim-Cohen
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Am J Psychiatry 163:1009-18. 2006..This study compared the developmental outcomes in and caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial history...
Do the effects of early severe deprivation on cognition persist into early adolescence? Findings from the English and Romanian adoptees studyCelia Beckett
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London
Child Dev 77:696-711. 2006..The findings draw attention to the psychological as well as physical risks of institutional deprivation...
Autism: its recognition, early diagnosis, and service implicationsMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
J Dev Behav Pediatr 27:S54-8. 2006
Institutional care: associations between inattention and early reading performancePenny Roy
Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:480-7. 2006..The possibility that biosocial factors extraneous to their experiences in public care may underpin their low attainment has not been investigated to date...
Continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology between childhood and adult lifeMichael Rutter
SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:276-95. 2006..Greater use needs to be made of genetic research strategies and of the testing of possible cognitive processing mediation effects...
Gene-environment interplay and psychopathology: multiple varieties but real effectsMichael Rutter
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:226-61. 2006....
Pre-linguistic Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule adapted for older individuals with severe to profound mental retardation: a pilot studySibel Kazak Berument
Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
J Autism Dev Disord 35:821-9. 2005..Furthermore, the combination of codings into an overall algorithm score on social/communicative behavior resulted in a sensitivity of .82 and a specificity of .85 when using a cut-off score of 15...
Brief report: autism in individuals with Down syndromeElizabeth M Starr
MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, University of London, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 35:665-73. 2005..Of the remaining 8, some showed a few autistic features, and some showed none. The findings raise both methodological and conceptual issues...
Nature X nurture: genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problemsSara R Jaffee
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:67-84. 2005..Certain genotypes may promote resistance to trauma. Physically maltreated children whose first-degree relatives engage in antisocial behavior warrant priority for therapeutic intervention...
Autism research: lessons from the past and prospects for the futureMichael Rutter
SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Box P080, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 35:241-57. 2005..There is great value in broadening the scientific strategies used to investigate a particular condition and much is to be gained by deliberately seeking parallels with other conditions...
Strategy for investigating interactions between measured genes and measured environmentsTerrie E Moffitt
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:473-81. 2005..We suggest that in psychiatric genetics, ignoring nurture handicaps the field's capacity to make new discoveries about nature...
Gene-environment interdependenceMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Dev Sci 10:12-8. 2007..The paper outlines the evidence and considers why it is changing concepts in ways that matter...
Early adolescent outcomes for institutionally-deprived and non-deprived adoptees. I: disinhibited attachmentMichael Rutter
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:17-30. 2007....
Early adolescent outcomes of institutionally-deprived and non-deprived adoptees. II: language as a protective factor and a vulnerable outcomeCarla Croft
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:31-44. 2007..There is uncertainty about the extent to which language skills are part of general intelligence and even more uncertainty on whether deprivation has differential effects on language and non-language skills...
New-onset psychiatric disorders in individuals with autismJane Hutton
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Autism 12:373-90. 2008..There was no case of schizophrenia...
The neurobiology of violence: implications for prevention and treatment. IntroductionMichael Rutter
PO 80, SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2485-9. 2008
Emotional difficulties in early adolescence following severe early deprivation: findings from the English and Romanian adoptees studyEmma Colvert
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, University of London, Denmark Hill, London, SE58AF UK
Dev Psychopathol 20:547-67. 2008..There was some evidence that emotion recognition might play a role in the emergence of these problems, but other measures of social competence and theory of mind showed no associations with the onset of emotional problems...
A replicated molecular genetic basis for subtyping antisocial behavior in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderAvshalom Caspi
Medical Research Council Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:203-10. 2008..Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder that in some cases is accompanied by antisocial behavior...
Nonmaternal care in infancy and emotional/behavioral difficulties at 4 years old: moderation by family risk characteristicsSylvana M Côté
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychol 44:155-68. 2008..The effect size was moderate (d=-0.44; CI=-0.65, -0.23). The study indicates that the effect of child care type in infancy varies by family and child characteristics...
Early adolescent outcomes of institutionally deprived and non-deprived adoptees. III. Quasi-autismMichael Rutter
MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1200-7. 2007..Some young children reared in profoundly depriving institutions have been found to show autistic-like patterns, but the developmental significance of these features is unknown...
Inattention/overactivity following early severe institutional deprivation: presentation and associations in early adolescenceSuzanne E Stevens
Developmental Brain Behaviour Unit, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:385-98. 2008....
Scholastic attainment following severe early institutional deprivation: a study of children adopted from RomaniaCelia Beckett
MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:1063-73. 2007..When these factors were taken into account, only small between-group differences in attainment remained...
Normality and impairment following profound early institutional deprivation: a longitudinal follow-up into early adolescenceJana M Kreppner
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, England
Dev Psychol 43:931-46. 2007..The findings are discussed in terms of the possibility of a sensitive period for development...
Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: evidence from a community sampleStephan Collishaw
King s College London, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Child Abuse Negl 31:211-29. 2007..The aims of the present study were to address the extent of resilience to adult psychopathology in a representative community sample, and to explore predictors of a good prognosis...
Etiological heterogeneity in the development of antisocial behavior: the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development and the Young Adult Follow-UpJudy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Psychol Med 37:1193-202. 2007..Longitudinal, genetically informed, prospective data collected on a large population of male twins (n=1037) were used to examine developmental differences in the etiology of antisocial behavior...
Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understandingMichael Rutter
Developmental Psychopathology, PO 80, MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE 5 8AF, UK
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1094:1-12. 2006....
How the environment affects mental healthMichael Rutter
Br J Psychiatry 186:4-6. 2005
Environmentally mediated risks for psychopathology: research strategies and findingsMichael Rutter
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:3-18. 2005..To consider the research design requirements needed to provide a rigorous test of environmental mediation hypotheses and to summarize the main findings from research using such designs...
Poverty and child mental health: natural experiments and social causationMichael Rutter
JAMA 290:2063-4. 2003
Gene-environment interplay in relation to emotional and behavioral disturbanceMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK
Annu Rev Psychol 53:463-90. 2002..Key conceptual and substantive implications are outlined in relation to both genetic and environmental risk mediation, with a brief note on evolutionary considerations...
Child-parent attachment following early institutional deprivationThomas G O'Connor
Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Dev Psychopathol 15:19-38. 2003..The results raise both theoretical and methodological implications for attachment research on very deprived children...
Genetic and environmental risk factors in adolescent substance useJudy Silberg
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:664-76. 2003..The present study was undertaken with the goal of understanding the causes of association between substance use and both conduct disturbance (CD) and depression in adolescent boys and girls...
Commentary: causal processes leading to antisocial behaviorMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, Demark Hill, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 39:372-8. 2003....
Twins as a natural experiment to study the causes of mild language delay: II: Family interaction risk factorsKaren Thorpe
School of Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:342-55. 2003..The results indicate the value of a natural experiment in testing competing causal hypotheses, and show the role of environmental factors as influences on language variations within the normal range, for both twins and singletons...
Twins as a natural experiment to study the causes of mild language delay: I: Design; twin-singleton differences in language, and obstetric risksMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:326-41. 2003..The present study was designed to pit these alternatives against one another as possible causal influences...
Assessment of the within-family environment in twins: absolute versus differential ratings, and relationship with conduct problemsRene Carbonneau
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:1064-74. 2002..The aim was to compare the psychometric properties of absolute versus differential ratings of the within-family environments and to examine their associations with conduct problems in 8-16-year-old twins...
The interplay of nature, nurture, and developmental influences: the challenge ahead for mental healthMichael Rutter
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:996-1000. 2002....
Behavior patterns associated with institutional deprivation: a study of children adopted from RomaniaCelia Beckett
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, United Kingdom
J Dev Behav Pediatr 23:297-303. 2002..The primary factor affecting the prevalence and persistence of the behaviors was the length of time the children had spent in institutional deprivation...
Families with children conceived by donor insemination: a follow-up at age twelveSusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
Child Dev 73:952-68. 2002..The DI children were well adjusted in terms of their social and emotional development. The findings are discussed with respect to the secrecy surrounding DI and the imbalance in genetic relatedness between the parents and the child...
Using sex differences in psychopathology to study causal mechanisms: unifying issues and research strategiesMichael Rutter
SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:1092-115. 2003..The review seeks to outline what is known, what are the methodological hazards that must be dealt with, and the research strategies that may be employed...
Are there biological programming effects for psychological development? Findings from a study of Romanian adopteesMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 40:81-94. 2004..The pattern of findings suggests some form of early biological programming or neural damage stemming from institutional deprivation, but the heterogeneity in outcome indicates that the effects are not deterministic...
Nature, nurture, and development: from evangelism through science toward policy and practiceMichael Rutter
Institute of Psychiatry, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, London, United Kingdom
Child Dev 73:1-21. 2002..The need to bring about a better interpretation of genetic, psychosocial, and developmental research strategies and theoretical concepts is emphasized...
The Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre: its origins, conception and initial accomplishmentsMichael Rutter
SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
Psychol Med 34:933-47. 2004..The Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre was established by the Medical Research Council, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, in 1994...
Informant disagreement for separation anxiety disorderDebra Foley
Human Genetics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:452-60. 2004..To characterize informant disagreement for separation anxiety disorder (SAD)...
Sex differences in developmental reading disability: new findings from 4 epidemiological studiesMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, Denmark Hill, London, England
JAMA 291:2007-12. 2004..An influential article published in 1990 claimed that the increased rate of reading disability in boys was a consequence of referral bias...
Institutional care: associations between overactivity and lack of selectivity in social relationshipsPenny Roy
Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:866-73. 2004....
Risks for conduct disorder symptoms associated with parental alcoholism in stepfather families versus intact families from a community sampleDebra L Foley
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:687-96. 2004....
Categories, dimensions, and the mental health of children and adolescentsMichael Rutter
Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1008:11-21. 2003..The empirical basis for these changes in concepts is reviewed, and the implications for clinical science and practice are considered...
Maternal expressed emotion predicts children's antisocial behavior problems: using monozygotic-twin differences to identify environmental effects on behavioral developmentAvshalom Caspi
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, England
Dev Psychol 40:149-61. 2004..The results suggest that maternal emotional attitudes toward children may play a causal role in the development of antisocial behavior and illustrate how genetically informative research can inform tests of socialization hypotheses...
Early childcare and physical aggression: differentiating social selection and social causationAnne I H Borge
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:367-76. 2004..Some research findings have suggested that group day-care may be associated with an increased risk for physical aggression...
Adult outcome for children with autismPatricia Howlin
Department of Psychology, St George s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:212-29. 2004..Information on long-term prognosis in autism is limited. Outcome is known to be poor for those with an IQ below 50, but there have been few systematic studies of individuals with an IQ above this...
Predictors of antisocial personality. Continuities from childhood to adult lifeEmily Simonoff
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Guy s, King s and St Thomas Medical School and Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 184:118-27. 2004..Antisocial behaviour in adult life has its roots in childhood...
Determinants of regional cerebral oxygenation in children with sleep-disordered breathingMaha Abou Khadra
Department of Pediatrics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:870-5. 2008....
Mutation screening and association analysis of six candidate genes for autism on chromosome 7qElena Bonora
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
Eur J Hum Genet 13:198-207. 2005..Association was also detected for several polymorphisms in the promoter and untranslated region of NRCAM, suggesting that alterations in expression of this gene may be linked to autism susceptibility...
Clinical and audiological features in auditory neuropathyColm Madden
Center for Hearing and Deafness Research, Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 128:1026-30. 2002..To medically and audiologically characterize a population of children diagnosed as having auditory neuropathy (AN)...
Association between nonmaternal care in the first year of life and children's receptive language skills prior to school entry: the moderating role of socioeconomic statusMarie Claude Geoffroy
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:490-7. 2007..This study investigates the role of the family environment, as reflected in the socioeconomic status (SES), in the association between NMC in the first year of life and children's receptive language skills prior to school entry...
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk to boys' conduct disturbance: an examination of the causal hypothesisJudy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0003, USA
Biol Psychiatry 53:130-5. 2003..Our results challenge previous findings of a direct effect of prenatal smoke exposure on risk to Cd once other etiologic factors are considered...
Resilience, competence, and copingMichael Rutter
PO 80, SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Child Abuse Negl 31:205-9. 2007
Introduction: autism--the challenges aheadMichael Rutter
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Novartis Found Symp 251:1-9; discussion 109-11, 281-97. 2003
