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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) in children can predict later anxiety disorders and depression in young adulthood, according to a new study in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. The study also found that adolescent depression predicts young adult depression.

• Researchers studied data from the Great Smoky Mountains study, a longitudinal study of the development of psychiatric disorders in rural and urban youth.
• Participants were assessed at age 9 to 12 years old, again at ages 13 to 16 years old, and still again at ages 19 to 21 years old.
• Substance use disorders, antisocial personality disorders, and anxiety disorders predicted similar problems in adulthood.

This study was conducted by researchers with Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina.

Labels: depresion, anxiety, oopositional defiant disorder

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