This study investigates the influence of infant irritability, maternal responsiveness, and social
support on the development of secure and anxious infant-mother attachments at 1 year.
Infant irritability was assessed during the neonatal period using the Neonatal Behavioral ...

Background—Patients with heart failure and systolic dysfunction may develop disordered
breathing during sleep. Repeated episodes of apnea and hypopnea may result in
desaturation and arousals, which could adversely affect left ventricular function. The ...

Abstract Maternal depression is associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes for
children, including poor mother-infant interactions at 3 months post-partum. The aim of this
study is to determine whether maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy are ...

Abstract To date there has been no suitable scale for the self-assessment of irritability in the
clinical situation. Existing scales have either included aspects of personality trait together
with present state or they have been constructed on non-clinical populations. A self- ...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate short-term efficacy and safety of
aripiprazole in the treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autistic disorder
who were manifesting behaviors such as tantrums, aggression, self-injurious behavior, or ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short-term efficacy and safety of aripiprazole in the treatment of
irritability in children and adolescents with autistic disorder. METHOD: Two hundred
eighteen children and adolescents (aged 6–17 years) with a diagnosis of autistic disorder, ...

Abstract Thirty-one patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and 26 patients with Huntington
disease (HD) were assessed using new scales to measure apathy and irritability. An existing
scale was used to assess aggression. A similar prevalence of apathy and irritability was ...

To determine the degree of genetic and environmental influences on assessments of
aggression and irritability in male subjects, the “Motor Aggression” subscales of the Buss—
Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI) were mailed to 1208 male twins in the Vietnam Era Twin ...

This research investigated the relationship of infant and mother characteristics to the
development of infant temperament and mother-infantlnteraction during the first three
months of life. Fifty-six mothers and their low-risk newborn infants participated in the ...

Abstract 1. To further understanding of temperament–interaction relationships, patterns of
interactive behavior were observed longitudinally (at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 mo) in 30 lower-
class dyads (15 irritable, 15 nonirritable). Frequency data were analyzed by using ...