Michel A. Woodbury

TL;DR: A two-stage epidemiologic survey was carried out on a probability sample of the population aged 4 through 16 years in Puerto Rico, and data were provided on the demographic correlates of maladjustment and on the comorbidity of DSM-III diagnostic domains.

TL;DR: Neuroleptic-induced catatonia is reported in an adolescent patient who responded successfully to lorazepam, and five discrete stages toward the progression of neuroleptic malignant syndrome are proposed.

TL;DR: Parents' reports tended to be more reliable than those of their children, although the difference was less obvious with older children, and reliability was generally higher for the externalizing disorders and when the second interviewer was a psychiatrist rather than a lay interviewer.

TL;DR: Reliability was better at the higher rank of major categories than at the level of specific diagnoses, and agreement was significantly better on either the referred severe cases or the nonreferred, noncases.

TL;DR: In this article, the frequency of abnormal blood pressure, respiration and heart rate, symptoms such as Dysarthria, Dysphagia, Rigidity, Focal Dystonia, Waxy Flexibility, Myoclonus, Masked Facies, Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Cogwheeling, Stupor, Coma, Obtundation, Mutism, Decrease in Consciousness, Disorientation, Diaphoresis, Sialorrhea, and Seizures.