Practitioners frequently use diagnostic criteria to identify children with neurodevelopmental
disorders and to guide intervention decisions. These criteria also provide the organising …

Importance Reported increases in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses
are accompanied by growing debate about the underlying factors. Although overdiagnosis is …

Taxometric procedures have been used extensively to investigate whether individual
differences in personality and psychopathology are latently dimensional or categorical …

Taxometric research methods were developed by Paul Meehl and colleagues to distinguish
between categorical and dimensional models of latent variables. We have conducted a …

The question of whether child and adolescent mental disorders are best classified using
dimensional or categorical approaches is a contentious one that has equally profound …

OBJECTIVE: The role of diet and of food colors in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) or its symptoms warrants updated quantitative meta-analysis, in light of recent …

Although the validity of adult ADHD is well established and research has identified a variety
of impairments associated with the condition in adults, study of how ADHD impacts an …

This review evaluates the diagnostic criteria for three of the most common disorders for
which children and adolescents are referred for mental health treatment: attention deficit …

Current frameworks for understanding the link between early adverse childhood
experiences and later negative life outcomes, including psychopathology, focus on the …

A disorder of impulsive aggression has been included in DSM since the first edition. In DSM-
III, this disorder was codified as intermittent explosive disorder, and it was thought to be rare …