Attention Deficit Disorders
It is important for mental health professionals to be familiar with research findings about widely used complementary and alternative medicine treatments of ADHD in order to provide patients with accurate information on efficacy, safety,and appropriate use.
Attention Deficit Disorders
Parents of children with ADHD frequently ask whether there are nonmedication treatments that are effective for managing their children’s symptoms of ADHD. A recent meta-analysis provides an answer to this clinically important question.
Concerns are raised about DSM-5 revisions in the definition of depression. Many worry that eliminating the bereavement exception in the guidelines for the diagnosis of major depressive disorder represents a dangerous move.
Despite the high prevalence of depression among youths, there are empirically supported treatments that have been shown to reduce depressogenic symptoms, including the 3 therapies outlined in this article.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents is a major public health problem. Psychiatrists have a crucial role in the management of young persons who have a TBI.
June 13, 2012
| ADHD,
Sleep Disorders,
Comorbidity In Psychiatry,
Attention Deficit Disorders,
Sleep Bruxism,
Sleep Deprivation,
Sleep Wake Transition,
Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders,
Addiction,
Amphetamine Related DisordersSleep changes associated with psychotropic drugs are common enough to justify routinely obtaining a baseline sleep diary before beginning treatment, even when the initial screening for sleep disorders indicates that no further investigation is needed.
The paradigm for modern psychiatry is evidence-based medicine (EBM)—it represents proven treatments for defined diagnoses. But there are major problems with this position, starting with the fact that while they are superior to placebo, evidence-based treatments too often are ineffective.
Any physician can predict death as the outcome of a fatal illness, but the physician who can predict death from among seeming randomness has certainly acquired a superior level of insight.
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