Prescription CBD Is Available, But Are We Ready to Use It?

Topics: Anxiety | Cannabidiol | Free Articles | Psychopharmacology

Your patient comes in with a new medication on his list: CBD oil. He started taking it for anxiety and wants to know if it’s safe. You hedge, explaining that there is limited information available on unregulated products, but the patient is persistent. He says CBD oil is available as a prescription, and wonders if you could write one for it. Cannab

Anxiety Everywhere: Grappling With a Pervasive Symptom

Topics: Anxiety | Child Psychiatry

CCPR: Can you tell us a little about your background? Dr. Rynn: I’ve been doing clinical research examining new medications for children with anxiety disorders. My passion is working with children who have failed first-line, evidence-based treatments. How do we help these children? What are our options? I look at new treatments or changing the intens

How Effective Are Medications for Pediatric Anxiety?

Topics: Anxiety | Research Update

Review of: Strawn JR et al, J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2018;57(4):235–244.e2 Antidepressants are part of the first-line treatment for severe childhood anxiety disorders when removal of stressors and psychotherapy are not enough, but are all antidepressants created equal in this situation? A recent meta-analysis shows that antidepressants

Benzodiazepines for Anxiety: Where They Fit In

Topics: Anxiety | Anxiety Disorder | Free Articles | Registered Articles

Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are widely used, rarely studied, and much maligned. So where exactly do they fit in today’s medication arsenal for treating anxiety? In this article, I will discuss when BZDs are appropriate and when they are not, and how to choose among the various BZDs. But before doing so, let’s first address the elephant that always see

Note From the Editor-in-Chief

Topics: Anxiety | Child Psychiatry

Anxiety is a broad concept that permeates pretty much all of our work. In particular, anxiety often compromises cognitive ability and drives acting-out behavior. So, for our 2018 run at the topic, we speak with Dr. Ira Glovinsky about how anxiety manifests as behavioral dysregulation and is often misconstrued as misbehavior. How do we learn to pick up t

Differentiating ADHD From Anxiety: Tips for Clinicians

Topics: ADHD | Anxiety | Child Psychiatry | Practice Tools and Tips

When parents bring in their kids for concentration, attention, and learning issues, it’s common to assume a provisional diagnosis of ADHD. In many children, however, anxiety can be the real cause of these problems. Studies have long shown that about two-thirds of children and adolescents who present for ADHD evaluation have comorbid conditions, inc