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This month, as the Journal celebrates its 50th anniversary, Dr. Eric Taylor, distinguished child and adolescent psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, provides historical perspective regarding classification of psychiatric disorders in the DSM over its most recent revisions (p. 103). He reviews the goals promoted by the president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1963 when the DSM-III was under development. Those goals are, to a large extent, echoed by the current DSM-V committee. In addition, the conundrums that made revision of the DSM-III difficult, such as the tension between research requirements for homogeneity within diagnostic categories and clinicians' need to classify cases with less straightforward presentations, are persistent across time. How to Classify?Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 2PreviewThe question of “why to classify?” is easy to answer: classification is the foundation of our professional language. It allows us to talk to each other intelligibly and helps us to communicate with others. The question of “how to classify” is much more complex. It has rightly been a concern of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and its Journal from the beginning. The Presidential Address in 1963 set an agenda, making good classification a prime objective for the academy's development. Full-Text PDF Patterns and Correlates of Tic Disorder Diagnoses in Privately and Publicly Insured YouthJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 2PreviewThis study examined the prevalence and demographic and clinical correlates of children diagnosed with Tourette disorder, chronic motor or vocal tic disorder, and other tic disorders in public and private insurance plans over the course of a 1-year period. Full-Text PDF Streptococcal Upper Respiratory Tract Infections and Exacerbations of Tic and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Prospective Longitudinal StudyJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 2PreviewThe objective of this blinded, prospective, longitudinal study was to determine whether new group A β hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) infections are temporally associated with exacerbations of tic or obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms in children who met published criteria for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS). A group of children with Tourette syndrome and/or OC disorder without a PANDAS history served as the comparison (non-PANDAS) group. Full-Text PDF Correlates of At-Risk/Problem Internet Gambling in AdolescentsJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 2PreviewThe Internet represents a new and widely available forum for gambling. However, relatively few studies have examined Internet gambling in adolescents. This study sought to investigate the correlates of at-risk or problem gambling in adolescents acknowledging or denying gambling on the Internet. Full-Text PDF Clonidine Extended-Release Tablets for Pediatric Patients With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 2PreviewThis study examined the efficacy and safety of clonidine hydrochloride extended-release tablets (CLON-XR) in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Full-Text PDF