9 Child and adolescent psychiatry – 5
| T | F | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. ADHD is associated with hypofrontality. |  |  |
| 2. Clonidine can be used to treat ADHD. |  |  |
| 3. Autistic children are unable to make eye contact. |  |  |
| 4. Autistic patients have greater difficulty than non-autistic controls in identifying someone’s gender from their eyes. |  |  |
| 5. Siblings of patients with autism have an 8% risk of developing autism. |  |  |
| 6. Aggression is more common in urban teenagers than rural teenagers. |  |  |
| 7. More than 50% of children with conduct disorder have EEG abnormalities. |  |  |
| 8. Irrespective of the child’s aggression, peer rejection on its own increases later antisocial behaviour. |  |  |
| 9. Delinquency is associated with low IQ. |  |  |
| 10. Truancy is commonly associated with antisocial behaviour. |  |  |
| 11. 20% of adolescent males have a criminal record. |  |  |
| 12. The effect of cortisol is more than that of DHEA in adolescent depression. |  |  |
| 13. In dyslexia, automatic lexical recognition is normal. |  |  |
| 14. Encopresis is associated with nocturnal enuresis. |  |  |
| 15. Primary enuresis has genetic heterogeneity. |  |  |
| 16. In high parental discord, child psychiatric illness is high. |  |  |
| 17. Siblings of child and adolescent patients are more reliable historians than parents. |  |  |
| 18. The prevalence of specific reading disorder in schoolchildren in England is 20%. |  |  |
| 19. Severe specific reading disorder is associated with normal digit span. |  |  |
| 20. Reading difficulties are associated with otitis media. |  |  |
| 21. School refusal is associated with reading difficulties. |  |  |
| 22. Girls are more likely than boys to tell someone about childhood sexual abuse. |
