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| | Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a behavior disorder, usually diagnosed in childhood, that is characterized by uncooperative, defiant, negativistic, irritable, and annoying behaviors toward parents, peers, teachers, and other authority figures. |
 | | Oppositional defiant disorder is reported to affect between 10 percent and 15 percent of children and adolescents in the general population. |
 | | Most symptoms seen in children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder also occur at times in children without this disorder, especially around the ages or 2 or 3, or during the teenage years. |
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