Behavioral and emotional problems in children with epilepsy.

The principal purpose of this study was to assess behavioral and emotional problems in children with epilepsy to investigate if specific behavioral and emotional problems are associated with specific medical epilepsy-related factors. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was used to assess parent-reported behavioral and emotional problems in 108 5- to 18-year-old children with various epilepsy syndromes. Specific medical epilepsy-related factors, such as etiology, age at onset, seizure symptoms, prognosis, seizure frequency, electroencephalography (EEG), and anticonvulsive therapy, were recorded during a regular follow-up examination in our pediatric outpatient epilepsy clinic, and 22.

Heart rate correlates of attachment status in young mothers and their infants.

Objective: To explore heart rate (HR) correlates of attachment behavior in young mothers and their infants to generate specific hypotheses and to provide pilot data on which studies to test those hypotheses might be based.

Method: Using the strange situation procedure, patterns of attachment were assessed in 41 low-income adolescent mothers and their infants. During the procedure, the HRs of the infants and mothers were recorded.