Jon Heron

..Implications of the findings for the use of the AMT measure in different samples are discussed...

..Teenagers in the UK report some of the highest rates of alcohol use in Europe. We identify patterns of alcohol use in early adolescence and relate these to hazardous and harmful alcohol use at age 16...

..This longitudinal, population based study describes trajectories of daytime wetting and soiling in children 4.5 to 9.5 years old...

..Tobacco use is common and remains one of the leading causes of preventable death in developed countries. Smoking commonly begins in adolescence, and hence, it is important to understand how smoking behavior develops during this period...

..The aim of this research was to test in a large United Kingdom population-based cohort whether there is any evidence to justify such concerns...

..Although some studies indicate a role for COMT in emotionality, anxiety, and depression in adults, no direct effect or interaction of COMT genotype was observed in this large sample of young children...

..The objective of this study was to examine differences in intellectual capacities between children with and without soiling, daytime wetting, and bed-wetting...

..We aimed to examine the association between childhood facial emotion recognition and PLIKS in adolescents...

..To examine the association between use of alcohol and cigarettes among adolescents and their early socioeconomic background...

..Further investigation of the role of attributional styles, such as LOC, in increasing the risk for psychotic disorders, is warranted...

..To examine the impact of a range of early childhood factors on the risk for daytime wetting and soiling...

..Maternal depression is known to be associated with impairments in child cognitive development, although the effect of timing of exposure to maternal depression is unclear...

..Young cohorts are essential to improve our understanding of the impact of development on gene and environment interactions...

..The prevalence of suicidal thoughts and plans at this age, and the inter-relationships between suicidal thoughts, plans and self-harm remain largely unexplored...

..The main aim is to examine whether initiation of toilet training after 24 months is associated with increased odds of daytime wetting in school-age children...

..We expected that only higher levels of alcohol consumption would be associated with later mental health problems and that any associations might be more readily detectable in boys...

..Parental attitudes towards the child may be more significant than the actual characteristics of the child...

..A growing number of studies suggest a link between timing of menarche and risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence, but few have prospectively examined the emergence of depressive symptoms from late childhood into adolescence...

..To investigate associations between socio-economic position in early life and later alcohol use and problem use among male and female adolescents...

..When data are missing, such preliminary analyses should be routinely undertaken and reported, regardless of whether multiple imputation is used in the final analysis...

..16-2.40, P<0.01), but this attenuated after adjustment for confounders (OR=1.29,95% CI 0.87-1.91, P=0.210). Hence there is little evidence of an independent association between depressive symptoms during pregnancy and birth weight...

..CONCLUSIONS: Levels of social adversity reported in pregnancy are important predictors of concurrent and future victimization. Screening for social adversity factors could help identify women at high risk for future domestic violence...

..To investigate the psychological problems associated with bedwetting and combined (day and night) wetting in children aged around 7(1/2) years...

..This is an investigation into the longitudinal patterns of bed sharing, the characteristics associated with those patterns, and the relationship with breastfeeding...

..This population-based study investigated the psychological problems associated with daytime wetting in children...

..We explored the interrelationship between trajectories of co-occurring symptoms, and sought evidence for shared prenatal/perinatal risk factors...

..This population-based study investigates the prevalence of psychological problems associated with childhood soiling...

..Future studies should explore this possibility in more detail, including whether these relationships differ in clinical and nonclinical samples...

..However, findings have been inconsistent on the association. The authors tested the hypothesis that there is an independent association between maternal and offspring depressogenic cognitive style...

..Beck's cognitive theory of depression has received little empirical support...

..Future work should focus on elucidating the biologic mechanisms that lead to variations in birth length and underlie this association...

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..Confirmation of its association with established pre-eclampsia risk factors and higher blood pressure in uncomplicated pregnancies would support this concept...

..Pre-school children are frequent users of health services, but little contemporary data are available describing their symptoms or why they consult...

..However by 61 months, previous OME status was not significant. To our knowledge, this is the largest longitudinal study reporting WRT in preschool children with different middle ear status...

..Our aim was to examine the relationships between bitter tasting ability and variation at the TAS2R38 locus and to assess the role of psychosocial factors in explaining residual, within group, variation in tasting ability...

..Interventions at both an individual and a community level are important to support families and reduce the risk of maltreatment...

..This study examined the long-term association between prenatal anxiety and measures of diurnal cortisol at age 10 years...

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..The present study set out to assess the association between depression in men in the postnatal period and later psychiatric disorders in their children and to investigate predisposing factors for depression in men following childbirth...

..This polymorphism affects cognitive function in healthy adults and may contribute to risk for schizophrenia...

..This study reports prevalence rates of both infrequent bedwetting (IB) and nocturnal enuresis (NE) at five time points during childhood with a large cohort of children...