Topics: Child Psychiatry | Personality Disorders

Recently, researchers in the field of conduct disorder (CD) have proposed including a specifier to the diagnosis of CD in DSM-5 based on the presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Free Articles | Personality Disorders

Four new antipsychotics are beginning to gain some traction in the adult market. Here is a quick low down on paliperidone, iloperidone (Fanapt), lurasidone (Latuda), and asenapine (Saphris).

We really do not know the etiology of what makes a child violent or antisocial. But there are so many successes in medicine—leukemia, many of the cancers—where we do not know etiology yet, but we still have effective treatments.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Personality Disorders

Stealing is a criterion of conduct disorder in DSM-IV. But we can probably all agree that stealing alone is not necessarily a sign of mental illness—sometimes it’s just bad behavior.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Personality Disorders

Many parents are justifiably worried about the effects of medication on their children, including the cardiac effects of stimulants.