GERMANY - Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: The Central Role of Emotion Processing. (FEMNAT-CD)

Conduct disorder (CD) has a highly negative impact for the affected individual as well as for families and society. Although the number of females exhibiting serious aggressive behaviours is growing, the majority of studies on aetiology and treatment of CD have focused on male subjects only, despite...

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Published inMENA Report
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Camden Disco Digital Media, Inc 18.09.2013
Subjects
Biomarkers
Conduct disorder
Consortia
Females
Neurobiology
Neurosciences
Puberty
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Summary:Conduct disorder (CD) has a highly negative impact for the affected individual as well as for families and society. Although the number of females exhibiting serious aggressive behaviours is growing, the majority of studies on aetiology and treatment of CD have focused on male subjects only, despite strong evidence for a differential neurobiological basis of female CD. The key aims of the FemNAT-CD consortium are to identify biomarkers and to study disease mechanisms from pre- to postpubertal female CD as well as new psychological and pharmacological treatment options for female adolescent CD targeting emotion processing abilities. With the present proposal, we aim at clarifying the phenomenology and neurobiology of female CD from pre-puberty to post-puberty.
ISSN:2219-0112