Objective Research and clinical interest in irritability have been on the rise in recent years.
Yet several questions remain about the status of irritability in psychiatry, including whether …

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) proposed the Research Domain Criteria
(RDoC) initiative as an alternate way to organize research of mental illnesses, by looking at …

Although irritability is among the most common reasons that children and adolescents are
brought for psychiatric care, there are few effective treatments. Developmentally sensitive …

Background Irritability is one of the most common reasons for referral to child and
adolescent mental health services and is the main characteristic of the new diagnosis of …

In recent years, increasing numbers of children have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In some cases, children with unstable mood clearly meet current diagnostic criteria for …

Chronic, severe irritability is common in childhood and is very impairing. Furthermore,
childhood irritability predicts suicidality, social impairment, and depressive and anxiety …

Irritability is a common and impairing clinical presentation in children and adolescents.
Despite its significant public health impact, irritability remains an elusive construct. Chronic …

Family-focused psychoeducational treatment (FFT) is among a very small number of
psychosocial treatments that have been found to be effective in multiple studies to improve …

Objective To understand disorder-unique and common pathophysiology, studies in multiple
patient groups with overlapping symptoms are needed. Deficits in emotion processing and …

Irritability, defined as an increased propensity to exhibit increased anger relative to one's
peers, is a common clinical problem in youth. Irritability can be conceptualized as aberrant …