Topics: ADHD | Child Psychiatry

Head injuries occur in 110 to 400 out of every 100,000 adults each year, but are much more common in children—around 692 per 100,000 children younger than 15. Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in 75% to 85% of these cases.

Should you be ordering vitamin D levels in your patients? Vitamin D studies have proliferated recently. The recent finding that vitamin D receptors are found in the brain, along with the well known association between low sunlight exposure and seasonal affective disorder, has led doctors to wonder whether there is an association between vitamin D deficiency and depression.

Topics: Child Psychiatry

Sometimes thyroid disorders present with psychiatric symptoms. With Graves’ disease behavioral manifestations are very common, and can be the presenting symptoms. In children, these manifest as moodiness, irritability, and labile behavior.

Topics: ADHD | Child Psychiatry

If you want to watch a new drug wend its way to market, you might start watching the literature for ABT-809, a nicotinic receptor partial agonist and proposed novel approach to the treatment of ADHD.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Research Updates

A long term study comparing patients with early onset psychosis to those with later onset psychosis may have some good news for child psychiatry. While previous studies have shown worse or equivalent outcomes for younger onset patients, this study demonstrated a protective effect.