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Tourette's and tics
Summary: Tourette syndrome is now recognised as affecting 1% of school-age children and covers a wide range of severity ranging from a diagnostic combination of mild and simple motor and vocal tics to...
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Jeremy S. Stern
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459-463
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When is counselling indicated after a major traumatic life event?
Summary: Children and adolescents are more prone to developing psychological reactions to major adverse life events such as serious accidents, natural and man-made disasters and abduction. Post-trauma...
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Dora Black,
Guinevere Tufnell
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464-471
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Understanding violent and antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents
Summary: Antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents is a common problem presented to professional involved with child health. This paper describes recent advances in the understanding of its aet...
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Karen Baker
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472-477
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Treatment and management of depression in children
Summary: There have been a number of significant recent developments in the recognition and management of depression in children. This paper draws on the 2004 National Institute for Health and Clinica...
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Karen Baker
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478-483
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| Symposium: Special Needs |
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The diagnosis of hearing loss in children: Common presentations and investigations
Summary: Hearing loss is a common disorder in the paediatric community, with between 1 and 3 per 1000 live births being affected with severe-to-profound loss. Without early diagnosis, the sequelae of ...
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Angeles Espeso,
David Owens,
Gareth Williams
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484-488
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Management of epilepsy in children with autism
Summary: Epilepsy is a major cause of morbidity in autism. The diagnosis and management of epilepsy in autism is complicated by a high prevalence of co-morbid neurodevelopmental disorders and co-medic...
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Deirdre Peake,
Lesley M. Notghi,
Sunny Philip
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489-494
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Promoting language development for children with Down's syndrome
Summary: Children with Down's syndrome present with more speech and language impairments then their typically developing peers, but impairments specific to the syndrome have yet to be identified. The ...
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Liz Marder,
Clothra Ní Cholmáin
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495-500
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What are we trying to do for disabled children?
Summary: The social model of disability and the new sociology of childhood emphasise, respectively, the relevance of the environment to participation and the importance of quality of life. Such ideas ...
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Allan Colver
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501-505
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The role of the National Clinical Director for children, young people and maternity
Summary: The Role of the National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Maternity for England is described and is compared with the role of the Children's Commissioner. The policy context f...
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Sheila Shribman
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506-511
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The role of a paediatrician in a war zone
Summary: Today, armed conflict affects predominantly civilians, especially women and children, often through the disruption of food supplies and public health services created by complex emergencies. ...
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D.R. Heller
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512-516
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517-519
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Book review
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is supposed to be the way we now all practise. It is no longer acceptable solely to use the reason ‘because we always have’ when asked why we do something. Finding and in...
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Tabitha Randell
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520-521
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Book review
Of all rotations facing the medical student, perhaps none is as daunting in scope as paediatrics. ‘You thought you knew some medicine—think again,’ seems to be the take-home message from early encount...
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Benjamin Moor
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521-522
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Book review
Much as we all hate them, multiple choice questions seem to have become the standard method of assessment, and by far the best way of preparing for them is practice. Although there are a plethora of M...
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Robin Marlow
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522
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