Michael Rutter

TL;DR: Advances in genetics will make a major impact on clinical psychiatry, and should bring practical benefits for both prevention and treatment.

TL;DR: A wide range of measures of childhood psychopathology, adverse experiences and interpersonal difficulties were associated with adult suicidality; associations were particularly strong for adolescent irritability, worry and depression.

TL;DR: This article addresses several strategies needed in using longitudinal data to test cause-and-effect relationships, including natural experiments, testing of competing hypotheses on mechanisms, study of reversal effects, multiple replications in different circumstances, use of designs to dissociate possible mechanisms, testing for dose-response relationships, examination of effect-specificity, considering biological plausibility, and assessing the strength of effects.

TL;DR: Emotional difficulties in the Romanian adoptee group were found to be significantly and strongly related to previous deprivation-specific problems (disinhibited attachment, cognitive impairment, inattention/overactivity and quasi-autism), but the presence of such early problems did not account fully for the onset of later emotional problems.

TL;DR: There is a significant departure from normality at the extreme lower end of the curve such that gross under-achievement in reading occurs at well above the expected frequency, suggesting that there is a meaningful group of children with specific reading retardation which is not explicable simply in terms of the bottom of a continuum.