Child and adolescent psychiatry is in a position to inform the entire practice of psychiatry. This slideshow provides easily accessible information in areas such as mood disorders, ADHD, and psychosis.Read More
New-onset psychiatric disorders are heterogeneous, and comorbidity is common. A child with preinjury ADHD in whom depression develops after a traumatic brain injury would be considered to have a novel psychiatric disorder.Read More
Clinicians who treat children with ADHD face a challenging conundrum. Although our understanding of ADHD and its evidence-based treatments has increased, the number of successful treatment outcomes has not.Read More
Vanderbilt Rating Scales scoring allows the clinician not only to make a diagnosis of ADHD, if present, but also to categorize the problem into one of its various subtypes.Read More
Quick . . . name a class of prescription medications that, by most evidence, appears to be overprescribed and abused and the use of which has resulted... More »
Parents of children with ADHD frequently ask whether there are nonmedication treatments that are effective for managing their children’s symptoms of... More »
Concerns are raised about DSM-5 revisions in the definition of depression. Many worry that eliminating the bereavement exception in the guidelines for... More »
Both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia combined with those of a mood disorder led to a psychiatric diagnosis; later, a neurological... More »
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder are both considered disruptive behavior disorders, but the 2 disorders are... More »
Despite the high prevalence of depression among youths, there are empirically supported treatments that have been shown to reduce depressogenic... More »
Primary Care Can't Thrive Without Nurse Practitioners Courtney H. Lyder, ND, May 17, 2013 With a projected shortfall of primary-care physicians, it's time for alternate solutions to patient care. Nurse practitioners are one logical remedy.
