Melissa P. Delbello, MD

Experts explain how careful pediatric psychopharmacology and early intervention protect development, curb relapse, and address substance-use risk.

Experts unpack child psychiatric medication: safety, early intervention, suicide risk, and managing side effects.

Compared with Caucasians, African Americans receive an excess of schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses. Potential explanations for the ethnic differences in clinical assignment of psychiatric diagnoses are reviewed.