Preschoolers psychiatric disorders

Stimulant treatment of ADHD has generated the largest body of treatment literature of any childhood psychiatric disorder. Between 1962 and 1993, over 250 reviews and over 3000 articles were published on stimulant effects (Swanson, 1993). By 1996, 161 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) had been published, encompassing 5 preschool, 150 school-age, 7 adolescent, and 9 adult studies. Improvement occurred in 65 %-75% of the children randomized to stimulants (meth-ylphenidate) [MPH] n = 133 trials dextroamphetamine [DEX] n = 22 trials pemoline [PEM] n = 6 trials) compared to 5%-30% of those assigned to pla-... 

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Johnson, T.C. (1993) Assessment of sexual behavior problems in preschool-aged and latency-aged children. In A., Yates, ed. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Philidelphia W.B. Saunders, pp. 431-449. 

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