Epidemiology of Childhood Depressive Disorders: A Critical Review

Fleming, Jan E.; Offord, David R.

doi:10.1097/00004583-199007000-00010

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“…Adolescents have a high risk of recurrence, with a 40% cumulative probability after two years and a 70% recurrence probability after five years (Thorpe et a1 2001). There is no gender difference in prevalence rates prior to puberty, but MDD is more frequent in females than in males postpubertally (Fleming and Offord 1990). Early-onset MDD is similar in many ways to MDD in adults, but early-onset major depression is a particularly serious form of affective disorder due to the high recurrence rate present at a critical developmental period.…”

Section: Epidemiolow Clinicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Acute and Continuation Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

Bauer

Whybrow²,

Angst

et al. 2002

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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Section: Epidemiolow Clinicalmentioning

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World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Acute and Continuation Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

Bauer

Whybrow²,

Angst

et al. 2002

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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“…56 In terms of phenomenology, the symptoms of depressed mood, diminished concentration, insomnia, and suicidal ideation occur with similar frequencies across the developmental span, but psychomotor retardation as well as anhedonia, diurnal variation, hopelessness, and delusions increase with age. 57 Table 3 indicates that five of 21 individuals with mood disorder exhibited other previous or comorbid disorders such as drug abuse, conduct disorder or autism.…”

Section: Mood Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

Takaoka

Takata

2003

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Child and adolescent catatonia has been poorly investigated. A literature review was undertaken to clarify phenomenology, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment as well as ethical problems of catatonia in childhood and adolescence. Although there are no accepted standardized criteria for catatonia in childhood and adolescence, catatonic features described by child psychiatrists are similar to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn; DSM-IV) criteria for catatonia. With respect to etiology, the motor and behavioral symptoms that are part of catatonia bear some similarities with those seen in autism. Several case reports suggest an association between catatonia and general medical conditions. Certain drugs abused by youngsters as well as prescribed medicine can induce catatonia. Regarding catatonic cases originally diagnosed as schizophrenia, it is unclear whether all of these cases should be identified as schizophrenia or whether some of them are pervasive developmental disorders that develop psychic features in adolescence. Environmental changes preceding the onset of catatonia in patients with mood disorder play a possibly important role. Examples that suggest stress-induced catatonia, although rare, also exist. A few patients exhibit features of malignant catatonia, some without taking neuroleptics and others having taken them. Benzodiazepines and electroconvulsive therapy are considered to be effective treatments for catatonic youngsters.

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“…Although depression is undoubtedly associated with some adverse effects on school performance (Kovacs & Goldston, 1991), the epidemiological evidence argues against this as a major contributor to wider patterns of comorbidity. Fleming and Offord (1990), in a review of rates and correlates of child and adolescent depression, found only inconsistent links with school performance, and neither the Isle of Wight (Rutter et al, 1970) nor the Dunedin studies (Anderson, Williams, McGee, & Silva, 1989) found any increased rates of reading or spelling difficulties among young people with emotional disorders. A pathway from reading difficulties to anxiety or depression seems more plausible, possibly mediated by poor readers' well-established vulnerability to problems in academic (and possibly more global) self-esteem (Chapman, 1988).…”

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Rowe

Loeber

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Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

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Although reading difficulties show well-established overlaps with disruptive behavior disorders in childhood, much less is known about reading-disabled children's vulnerability to emotional difficulties. Using longitudinal data from 6 assessments of boys in the Pittsburgh Youth Study, we found robust links between severe, persistent reading problems and increased risk for depressed mood in a community sample of boys aged 7 and 10 years at initial assessment, though not in those who had already entered their teens. These associations could not be accounted for in terms of selected family risks or comorbid disruptive behaviors; instead, the pattern of the findings pointed to the existence of more direct causal processes whereby reading problems influence younger boys' risk of depressed mood.

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Epidemiology of Childhood Depressive Disorders: A Critical Review

Cited by 599 publications

References 55 publications

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Acute and Continuation Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Acute and Continuation Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

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