Gender differences in sexual attitudes and behaviors are typically believed to be large, yet
recent evidence suggests that some gender differences in sexuality are much smaller than …

Convincing evidence indicates that prenatal exposure to the gonadal hormone,
testosterone, influences the development of children's sex-typical toy and activity interests. In …

What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence
children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and …

This article summarizes and critiques recent trends in research and theory on the role of
gender in adolescent development. First, gender differences in key areas of adolescent …

BACKGROUND: Previous research on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression
Scale (CES-D) has five main limitations. First, no study provided evidence of the factorial …

Attentional biases for negative stimuli have been observed in school-age and adolescent
children of depressed mothers and may reflect a vulnerability to depression. The direction of …

In the past decades considerable evidence has emerged that so-called neuroactive steroids
do not only act as transcriptional factors in the regulation of gene expression but may also …

This 6-year longitudinal study examined stressors (eg, interpersonal, achievement),
negative cognitions (self-worth, attributions), and their interactions in the prediction of (a) the …

BACKGROUND: Adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is a life-threatening brain
disease with limited interventions. Treatment resistance is common, and the illness burden …

Higher rates of major depression (MD) among females, and of alcohol dependence (AD)
among males, are among the most routinely reported findings in psychiatric epidemiology …