Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 81-93 (13 pages) An archival study was conducted to document (a) types of challenging behavior, and (b ...

Overall levels of neurostransmitters in the brain also affect general behavior; manipulation of dopamine, for example, affects wakefulness.

This paper examines a series of instances which call attention to the positive functions of deviance for social structures. Among the latent functional contributions are the role of the deviant in ...

The key to prevention, according to Iwata and others (for example, Filter and Alvarez’s book Functional Behavioral Assessment), exists within the classes of motivators.

A behavior can mean different things for different disorders, explains HealthMaker Jerry Bubrick, PhD, senior director, Anxiety and Mood Disorder Center, Child Mind Institute. In this video he ...

A suspected perpetrator who can barely remember his name, several traffic violations committed by a woman in her mid-fifties who is completely unreasonable and doesn't understand her behavior—should ...

We identified seven surgeon-leadership functions and related behaviors that impact perceptions of leadership. These observations suggest actionable opportunities to improve team leadership behavior.