Mental Health
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Kids in foster care get psychotropic meds at ‘alarming’ rates
Different rates of mental health disorders in this population do not fully explain the trend, a researcher said.
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Gender-affirming care ‘can save lives,’ new research shows
Although the decline in depression and suicidality after gender-affirming treatment was not a surprise, “those drops are huge.”
LGBT Youth Consult
Call them by their names in your office
Providing a space for a patient to put the name and pronouns that they use allows your staff to make sure that you are calling a patient by the...
Child Psychiatry Consult
What’s behind the rise in youth anxiety and depression?
It seems likely that a tidy and simple explanation for the alarming increase in youth mental health problems will be hard to pin down.
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Adolescents who exercised after a concussion recovered faster in RCT
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Nutritious meals, more fruits and vegetables boost children’s mental and emotional health
Higher combined fruit and vegetable intake was significantly associated in dose-related fashion with higher mental health scores.
News from the FDA/CDC
One in three children fall short of sleep recommendations
Survey data show that prevalence of short sleep duration is highest among Black children.
Commentary
Dopamine and reward: The story of social media
There is a need to establish boundaries between what is beneficial and what is potentially detrimental to our mental health, says Leanna M.W. Lui...
From the Journals
Pandemic affected home life of nearly 70% of female physicians with children
Researchers found that the emotional toll female physicians experienced early on in the pandemic was indicative of the challenges they were facing...
From the Journals
Parent-led intervention linked with decreased autism symptoms in at-risk infants
Study provides evidence that a preemptive intervention during infancy could lead to a significant improvement in children’s social development,...
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Higher than standard vitamin D dose provides no added benefits to children’s neurodevelopment
New research published online in JAMA found no differences in children's developmental milestones when given a higher than standard dose of...