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. |  |
