Male teens with conduct disorder may have a dampened physical response to stress , and that finding may eventually lead to new treatments. That's according to Graeme Fairchild, PhD, of the psychiatry ...

An international study—the largest of its kind—has uncovered similar structural changes in the brains of young people diagnosed with anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD and conduct disorder, offering ...

Defiance, tantrums, aggression: All signs of a condition called conduct disorder, which Mental Health America says affects up to 16% of boys and 9% of girls. Now, research is revealing real ...

Notorious criminals, such as serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, would certainly have been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. The disorder is marked by a profound lack of empathy ...

October 11, 2010 — Conduct disorder (CD) in adolescence predicts substance use disorders (SUDs) in adulthood, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the October issue of the ...

The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the ...

Teenagers and young adults with conduct and substance use disorders and their siblings were at almost five times higher risk for premature death than community controls, according to study findings ...

Conduct disorder involves a pattern of antisocial, defiant, aggressive behavior in childhood and teenage years. If it continues into adulthood, a person may have antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) ...

This was more than the notorious terrible twos and threes so many parents complain about, those turbulent years of full of outbursts and mood swings. Immeasurably, indescribably worse. Amy Cluley’s ...

Youth with conduct disorder (CD) have extensive brain structure differences, new research showed. In findings that illuminate the differences in areas of the brain critical for emotional processing ...

The prevalence rate of some behavioral disorders in the United States is growing. Most concerning is that many of these conditions appear in early childhood and are linked with at-risk behaviors ...

A 12-year-old went into an abandoned home and raped a 10-year-old girl, according to a Boynton Beach Police report. He was arrested and placed on an ankle monitor but was found to have violated it ...