Michael Rutter

TL;DR: Maternal smoking during pregnancy was not more strongly associated with offspring ADHD diagnosis than was paternal smoking, grandmother’s smoking when pregnant with mother, or maternal smoking in previous pregnancies, and sibling control analyses showed no association between maternalsmoking in pregnancy and child ADHD symptoms among siblings discordant for maternal smoking.

TL;DR: The results provide evidence for developmental continuities in G x E interaction, explain some of the heterogeneity in ADHD outcomes following institutional deprivation and add to the understanding of environmental determinants of sADHD.

TL;DR: The likely developments over the next 30 years in the understanding of disorders and in patterns of clinical practice in child psychiatry are considered in the light of basic biological principles, the current knowledge base and the prevailing trends of change.

TL;DR: It is suggested that depression in young people resembles depression in adults in two key respects: it tends to run in families, and there are higher rates of depression among the female than among the male first-degree relatives.

TL;DR: An interim follow-up study of a group of “higher functioning” boys with infantile autism and control group of boys with severe (receptive) developmental language disorder (or dysphasia) is reported, finding very few of the autistic boys had good language skills at follow- up, whereas nearly half of the dysphasic group were communicating well.