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Clues to Role of Brain Development as Risk for Mental Disorders May Also Lead to Better Treatments
Increasing evidence points to links between the timing and growth rates of specific brain areas in the young brain and the likelihood of developing a wide range of mental disorders later in life, say ...
Antipsychotic Prescribing For Children Has Risen Sharply
A research team set out to investigate the epidemiologic features of antibiotic prescribing to patients under the age of 18 by GPs (general practitioners, primary care doctors) in Great Britain. They ...
Antidepressant Found To Alleviate Symptoms Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome In Adolescents
Researchers at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA have found that low-dose antidepressant therapy can significantly improve the overall quality of life for adolescents suffering from irritable bowel synd...
Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants
“I’ve grown up on medication,” my patient Julie told me recently. “I don’t have a sense of who I really am without it.”At 31, she had been on one antidepressant or another nearly continuou...
New Findings in Early-Onset Schizophrenia
The Treatment of Early-Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (TEOSS) study, funded by the NIMH, was a multicenter, controlled treatment trial of children and adolescents.1 The aim of the TEOSS study ...
Clozapine Better Than "High-Dose" Olanzapine for the Treatment of Adolescents With Schizophrenia
The results of a 12-week, double-blind, randomised study published in the March issue of Biological Psychiatry suggest that clozapine is more effective than "high-dose" olanzapine for the treatment of...
Seriously Depressed Teens Respond to Combined Therapy
"If at first..." Many high-risk teenagers with depression show improvement on treatment combining medication with cognitive-behavioral therapy.Over half of adolescents who don't respond to a first ant...
Comparison of antipsychotic treatments in adolescents with schizophrenia
There is a wealth of scientific literature available on the treatment of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, there is a paucity of data to guide the treatment of children and adolescents wit...
Behavior therapy plus medication may help teens with depression and substance use disorders
The antidepressant fluoxetine combined with cognitive behavioral therapy appears as effective for treating depression among teens who also have substance use disorders as among those without substance...
Aripiprazole Decreases Symptoms of Mania in Paediatric Bipolar Disorder: Presented at AACAP
Children and adolescents at the onset of bipolar disorder may achieve improvements in manic symptoms with aripiprazole, according to research presented here at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American ...
Concomitant Psychotropic Medications Overprescribed in Foster-Care Youth: Presented at AACAP
Nearly 20% of youths in foster care receiving psychotropic medications received two or more such drugs in the same drug class, in a study presented here at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Acad...
Previous Suicidality a Greater Risk Than Antidepressant Medication in Suicidal Teens: Presented at AACAP
Antidepressant drugs have a lesser effect on teenagers' risk of suicidality than do female gender and previous plans to kill oneself within the past year, according to research presented here at the 5...
Zyprexa may get OK for teen use - Senior regulator overrules peers on drug's benefits for adolescents
Eli Lilly and Co.'s best-selling schizophrenia drug Zyprexa is poised to get U.S. approval for treating adolescents diagnosed with mental illness after a senior government regulator overruled his coll...