Female Adolescent Conduct Disorder is an under-researched disorder despite its individual, clinical and societal impact. Prevalence of female adolescent conduct disorder (CD) is rising with current estimates around 5% in Western populations. The majority of studies on neurobiological correlates of CD have focused on male subjects only, despite strong evidence for a differential aetiology and neurobiology of female CD.
In this symposium we will present latest results of the large European FemNAT-CD consortium on neuronal (Nora Raschle et al., Basel; Stephane de Brito et al., Birmingham), neurophysiological (Helena Oldenhof et al., Amsterdam), neuroendocrinological (Christine M. Freitag et al., Frankfurt) and neurocognitive correlates (Gregor Kohls et al., Aachen) of CD in adolescent females compared to males with CD and typically developing adolescents. The FemNAT-CD study is currently the largest European study on females with CD.