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Lawrence Scahill
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 35
Citations - 6845
Lawrence Scahill is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Tourette syndrome. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 35 publications receiving 6063 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Scahill include Yale University & The Advisory Board Company.
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Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Reliability and Validity
Lawrence Scahill,Mark A. Riddle,Maureen McSwiggin-Hardin,Sharon I. Ort,Robert A. King,Wayne K. Goodman,Domenic V. Cicchetti,James F. Leckman +7 more
TL;DR: The CY-BOCS yields reliable and valid subscale and total scores for obsessive-compulsive symptom severity in children and adolescents with OCD and may be influenced by age of the child and the hazards associated with integrating data from parental and patient sources.
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Risperidone in Children with Autism and Serious Behavioral Problems
James T. McCracken,James J. McGough,Bhavik Shah,Pegeen Cronin,Daniel Hong,Michael G. Aman,L. Eugene Arnold,Ronald L. Lindsay,Patricia L. Nash,Jill A. Hollway,Christopher J. McDougle,David J. Posey,Naomi B. Swiezy,Arlene E. Kohn,Lawrence Scahill,Andrés Martin,Kathleen Koenig,Fred R. Volkmar,Deirdre H. Carroll,Allison Lancor,Allison Lancor,Elaine Tierney,Jaswinder K. Ghuman,N. González,Marco A. Grados,Benedetto Vitiello,Louise Ritz,Mark Davies,James Robinson,Donald J. McMahon +29 more
TL;DR: Risperidone was effective and well tolerated for the treatment of tantrums, aggression, or self-injurious behavior in children with autistic disorder and the benefit was maintained at six months.
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Behavior Therapy for Children With Tourette Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
John Piacentini,Douglas W. Woods,Lawrence Scahill,Sabine Wilhelm,Alan L. Peterson,Susanna Chang,Golda S. Ginsburg,Thilo Deckersbach,James Dziura,Sue Levi-Pearl,John T. Walkup,John T. Walkup +11 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive behavioral intervention, compared with supportive therapy and education, resulted in greater improvement in symptom severity among children with Tourette and chronic tic disorder.
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Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
Aaron Stabel,Kimberly Kroeger-Geoppinger,Jennifer McCullagh,Deborah Weiss,Naomi Schneider,Diana B. Newman,Winifred Schultz-Krohn,Fred R. Volkmar,Tara J. Glennon,Sarita Austin,Vince Winterling,Elizabeth Spencer,Claudia Califano,Robin Hansen,Paul El-Fishawy,Lawrence Scahill,Oren Shtayermman,Betsey A. Benson,Whitney T. Brooks,Jessica L. Roesser,John T. Danial,C. Enjey Lin,Jeffrey J. Wood,Dawn Wimpory,Susan Latham,Annette Karmiloff-Smith,Joyce Lum,Kristin Hodgson,Michelle Lestrud,Isabelle Rapin,Amanda C. Gulsrud,Connie Kasari,Jennifer S. Beighley,Johnny L. Matson,Serena Wieder,Ilene Sharon Schwartz,Bonnie McBride,Sima Gerber,Evdokia Anagnostou,Deepali Mankad,Christina Corsello,Susan Leekam,Ann S. LeCouteur,Thomas P. Berney,Steve Kanne,Johnny Matson,Julie Worley,Paul Shattuck,Rizwan Parvez,Celine A. Saulnier,Thomas Zane,Cheryl Davis,Roger J. Jou,Lawrence H. Staib,Andrew Pickles,Robert LaRue,Marc Woodbury-Smith,Alvi Azad,Rebecca DeAquair,Anne Holmes,Tina Newman,Michael Miklos,Tobi Gilbert,Jonathan Sliva,Rebecca Munday,Kevin A. Pelphrey,Carolyn A. Doyle,Christopher J. McDougle,Lara Delmolino,Sandra Harris,Kristin Ruedel,Amy Donaldson,Allison Bean,Moira Lewis,Micaela Violette +74 more
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Regional Brain and Ventricular Volumes in Tourette Syndrome
Bradley S. Peterson,Lawrence H. Staib,Lawrence Scahill,Heping Zhang,Carol M. Anderson,James F. Leckman,Donald J. Cohen,John C. Gore,John Albert,Rebecca Webster +9 more
TL;DR: Broadly distributed cortical systems are involved in the pathophysiology of Tourette syndrome and developmental processes, sexual dimorphisms, and compensatory responses in these cortical regions may help to modulate the course and severity of tic symptoms.