Abstract Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorders among school-age children worldwide. In a more recent follow-up study, Biederman et al. found that 78% of children diagnosed with ADHD between the ages of 6-17 years continued to have a full (35%) or a partial persistence after eleven years. Objective: In this study, it was aimed to identify the factors contributing to the persistence of ADHD symptoms in ele

Abstract: Grief and dissociation after traumatic exposures are among the most important predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This article introduces the Traumatic Dissociation and Grief Scale (TDGS), a 23-item measure easily adminis- tered. The TDGS, the Child PTSD-Reaction Index (CPTSD-RI), and a questionnaire concerning risk factors related to the event (losses, injury, and witnessing death and injuries) were administered to school-aged children who had been

*Written by Idil Yazgan, Yale Med., Class of 2024 There is a Turkish saying: “The healthy forget about the gift of health”. You don’t anticipate anything in your life to change, until you become sick. This is exactly how my father felt during his hospitalization due to COVID-19. Just talking to him, I could sense the PTSD and feelings of sadness, fear, and shame rise up inside him. He got sick with COVID-19 right after my brother was hospitalized, again, due to COVID-19.

(1991) I was an adult psychiatry resident at the time of this writing, about 25 years ago. Later on, I moved to the US where I finished my fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry along with a research training. I was fortunate to work with pioneers in the field who could bring together both ends of the field, neuroscience and developmental psychoanalytic thinking (namely, Donald Cohen, James Leckman among many others) Until recent years, whenever a resident or a candid

Commentary on: “ CHILD PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICATION: CONCEPTS, FINDINGS, CHALLENGES & POTENTIAL ” by Sir Michael Rutter Mothers may be among the best diagnosticians of developmental and behavioral problems in young children. If not for the positive predictive power of the mother’s diagnostic ability, few kids would make it to the child and adolescent psychiatrist (“help-seeking”) unless they really get into trouble. Mothers can sense that there is something wrong

Some highlights from the speech; Earlier and repeated exposure to words in familiar contexts increases vocabulary. Words are the tools for faster and elaborate processing of the internal and external world. The initial steps for expanding vocabulary requires a lot of effort. It is simply difficult and boring in the beginning. Reading requires a tansition from resting state to task related activation state. The neural tissue in human brain develops in response to repeated

You know how when you give your order at a stand-up-coffeehouse , where quick service is given to customers on foot, they ask for your name and write it on the coffee container, so as not to mix it up with someone else’s order… At first I used to innocently give my name. Then it suddenly occurred to me to use some other name. A childish game, but I’ve been playing it ever since. Sometimes I pick the most outlandish names; it’s not enough to choose names I like or names th

A rise in inflation is expected... Though it may seem old news, like “Snow is expected this weekend,” or “Communism is on the way this winter,” (as in the discourse of the cold war political leaders who wanted to intimidate people) most people are not surprised. Having lived and grown in the embrace of inflation for forty years, our society seems to think “We’re used to inflation,” as much as “It was obviously going to be that way.” So what does it mean to be used to inflati

In November of 1970 I called out to our English teacher John Young as he was leaving the classroom. Actually I didn’t call out, I shouted: “Yankee go home!” He blushed red and turned back; “Who was it who shouted?” he asked the class. Your humble servant had barely heard what came out of his own mouth and, beginning to feel frightened but trying not to lose courage, I admitted it had been me. He called me over to him; the other students in the class looked at me sideways and

It is no accident that books and DVDs claiming to offer the solution to the mystery of life and the key to happiness/wealth (how to become the owner of a new home/car or heaps of cash) come from America (and their bad Turkish copies from related sources). I am not about to try to solve the mystery of this country. It is anyway years since I shed the “doctor from America” costume and my image has long since become more local. But this country does have something like a mystery