Adult Outcomes of Childhood Disruptive Disorders in Offspring of Depressed and Healthy Parents

Disruptive disorders (DD) in childhood are associated with poor mental health and social outcomes in later life (Erskine et al., 2016; Sayal et al., 2015). The most common DDs are attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder (CD), and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Although unique diagnoses (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), they share traits such as irritability and distractibility (Krieger et al., 2013), have quite high comorbidity (Moffitt et al., 2015), and commonly predict adulthood outcomes such as depression (Meinzer et al., 2013; Stringaris et al., 2014) and substance use (Copeland et al., 2009; Ottosen et al., 2016).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - October 9, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Alexandre Paim Diaz, Connie Svob, Ruixin Zhao, Baxter DiFabrizio, Virginia Warner, Marc J. Gameroff, Jamie Skipper, Jay Gingrich, Jonathan Posner, Priya J. Wickramaratne, Myrna M. Weissman, Ardesheer Talati Tags: Research paper Source Type: research