9 Child and adolescent psychiatry – 5
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1. ADHD is associated with hypofrontality. | ![]() |
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2. Clonidine can be used to treat ADHD. | ![]() |
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3. Autistic children are unable to make eye contact. | ![]() |
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4. Autistic patients have greater difficulty than non-autistic controls in identifying someone’s gender from their eyes. | ![]() |
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5. Siblings of patients with autism have an 8% risk of developing autism. | ![]() |
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6. Aggression is more common in urban teenagers than rural teenagers. | ![]() |
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7. More than 50% of children with conduct disorder have EEG abnormalities. | ![]() |
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8. Irrespective of the child’s aggression, peer rejection on its own increases later antisocial behaviour. | ![]() |
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9. Delinquency is associated with low IQ. | ![]() |
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10. Truancy is commonly associated with antisocial behaviour. | ![]() |
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11. 20% of adolescent males have a criminal record. | ![]() |
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12. The effect of cortisol is more than that of DHEA in adolescent depression. | ![]() |
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13. In dyslexia, automatic lexical recognition is normal. | ![]() |
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14. Encopresis is associated with nocturnal enuresis. | ![]() |
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15. Primary enuresis has genetic heterogeneity. | ![]() |
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16. In high parental discord, child psychiatric illness is high. | ![]() |
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17. Siblings of child and adolescent patients are more reliable historians than parents. | ![]() |
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18. The prevalence of specific reading disorder in schoolchildren in England is 20%. | ![]() |
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19. Severe specific reading disorder is associated with normal digit span. | ![]() |
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20. Reading difficulties are associated with otitis media. | ![]() |
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21. School refusal is associated with reading difficulties. | ![]() |
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22. Girls are more likely than boys to tell someone about childhood sexual abuse. | ![]() |