Psychiatry related information on Child Psychiatry

• The relationship between bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents has been one of the most hotly debated topics in recent child psychiatry literature [1].

High impact information on Child Psychiatry

• PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-one stimulant-medication-free children with a clinical diagnosis of ADHD (8 girls; mean 8.8 years (SD 2.6), range 3-15 years) recruited from child psychiatry clinics [2].
• In a matched case-control study, we investigated 47 adult in-patients with major depressive disorder or bipolar 1 disorder, who had earlier in life presented to a child psychiatry department [3].
• METHOD: Twenty-one male inpatients, aged 5-13 years, participated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the p.r.n. use of diphenhydramine, a sedative antihistaminic often used in child psychiatry wards [4].
• In a survey of training in child psychiatry in Great Britain, all senior registrars were sent questionnaires; the response rate was 69 per cent [5].
• Consultation-liaison in child psychiatry: a review of the past 10 years. Part I: Clinical findings [6].

Biological context of Child Psychiatry

• According to us, awareness of this association is essential at child psychiatry and pediatric dentistry settings and we recommend preventive efforts to be directed at the treatment of ADHD [7].

Associations of Child Psychiatry with chemical compounds

• Double-blind trials of bupropion are recommended in child psychiatry disorders [8].
• Tolerability of oral loading of divalproex sodium in child psychiatry inpatients [9].
• Folic acid in neurodevelopment and child psychiatry [10].
• Novel antipsychotics with combined dopaminergic and serotonergic action, such as risperidone, appear to offer better safety and efficacy profiles in controlled studies of adult patients, and therefore appeared as promising pharmacotherapeutic agents in child psychiatry [11].
• This study examined the contributions of childhood symptom dimensions and aspects of methylphenidate (MPH) treatment to the prediction of young adult outcomes in boys who were referred to a child psychiatry outpatient clinic [12].

Gene context of Child Psychiatry

• Using the science fiction film invaders from Mars in a child psychiatry seminar [13].
• We feel that our experience in St Bartholomew's Hospital during the past seven years has very clearly demonstrated the value of close liaison between the Child Psychiatry Unit and the Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic, and the much greater efficacy of such a liaison as against referrals made to a separate Psychiatric Unit [14].
• The objective of this study was to assess the extent of referral bias by comparing children and adolescents with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) ascertained through a specialized pediatric OCD and a general child psychiatry clinic [15].
• ABC of child abuse. Role of the child psychiatry team [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Child Psychiatry

• We have used this test battery approach in open clinical trials of bupropion (Wellbutrin) and of alprazolam (Xanax) with child psychiatry patients [17].

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