Pediatric psychiatry

Established anticonvulsant dosage and monitoring guidelines are generally followed for use in pediatric psychiatry. 

The diagnosis of ADHD frequently occurs when other disruptive behavior disorders are diagnosed. As in many other diagnoses in pediatric psychiatry, the ambiguities involved in ADHD diagnosis mean that estimates of prevalence are loose at best. The high end of prevalence estimates is 10 percent, the low end 3 percent. 

Evidence-Based Medicine. Evidence-Based Medicine [45] consists of summarized abstracts of articles on family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, psychiatry, and anesthesiology with commentary by clinical experts. More than 50 peer-reviewed medical journals are abstracted. Also included are key selections from ACP Journal Club. Evidence-Based Medicine is commercially available however, its distribution is restricted and does not include North, Central, or South America. 

Hammad, Tarek A., Thomas Laughren and Judith Racoosin, Suicidality in Pediatric Patients Treated with Antidepressant Drugs , Archives of General Psychiatry 63 (2006) 332-39... 

Carrion VG, Weems CF, Ray RD, Glaser B, Hessl D, Reiss AL (2002) Diurnal salivary cortisol in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry 51 575-582 Coupland NJ, Hegadoren KM, Myrholm J (2003) Increased beclomethasone-induced vasoconstriction in women with posttraumatic stress disorder. J Psychiatr Res 37 221-228 De Beilis MD, Chrousos GP, Dorn LD, Burke L, Helmers K, Kling MA, Trickett PK, Putnam FW (1994) Flypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation in sexually abused girls. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 78 249-255... 

W.L. Strauss, A.S. Unis, C. Cowan, G. Dawson, S.R. Dager, Fluorine magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurement of brain fluvoxamine and fluoxetine in pediatric patients treated for pervasive developmental disorders. Am. J. Psychiatry 159 (2002) 755-760. 

Geller, D., Biederman, J., Jones, J., Park, K., Schwartz, S., Shapiro, 8., and Coffey, B. (1998a) Is juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder a developmental subtype of the disorder A review of the pediatric literature. / Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 37 420-427. 

MacMaster, F.P., Keshavan, M.S., Dick, E.L., and Rosenberg, D.R. (1999) Corpus callosal signal intensity in treatment-naive pediatric obsessive compulsive disorders. Prog Neuropsychopharma-col Biol Psychiatry 23 601-612. 

Swedo, S.E., Leonard, H.L., Garvey, M., Mittleman, B., Allen, A.J., Perlmutter, S., Lougee, L., Dow, S., Zamkoff, J., and Dubbert, B.K. (1998) Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections clinical description of the first 50 cases. Am Psychiatry 155 264-271. 

B.K. (1998) Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections clinical description of the first 50 cases. Am J Psychiatry 155 264-271. 

Rosenberg, D.R., Benazon, N.R., Gilbert, A., Sullivan, A., and Moore, G.J. (2000) Thalamic volume in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder patients before and after cognitive behavioral therapy. Biol Psychiatry 48 294-300. 

D. (1997) Case study risperidone-induced hepatotoxicity in pediatric patients. / Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 35 701-705. 

Wudarsky, M., Nicolson, R., Hamburger, S.D., Spechler, L., Goch-man, R, Bedwell, J., Lenane, M.C., and Rapoport, J.L. (1999) Elevated prolactin in pediatric patients on typical and atypical antipsychotics. / Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 9 239—245. Zuddas, A. Tedda, M.G., Fratta, A., Muglia, P., and Cianchetti, C. (1996) Clinical effects of clozapine on autistic disorder [letter]. Am Psychiatry 153 738. 

Stuber, M.L., Nader, K., Yasuda, P., Pynoos, R.S., and Cohen, S. (1991) Stress responses after pediatric bone marrow transplantation. / Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 30 952—957. 

Franklin, M.E., Kozak, M.J., Cashman, L.A., Coles, M.E., Rhein-gold, A.A., and Foa, E.B. (1998) Cognitive-behavioral treatment of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder an open clinical trial. / Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 37 412—419. 

Walkup, J. (1999) The Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale (PARS) a reliahility study. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY, October 19-24. 1999. Scientific proceedings. 

Wilens T, Cohen LG, Beiderman J, Abrams A, neft D, Melnick K, Kurtz D, and Sinha V (2000, poster). Pharmacokinetics of fluoxetine in pediatric patients. Scientific Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry. October 24-29, 2000). New York, NY. 

McDougle, C.J., Scahill, L., McCracken, J.T., Aman, M.G., Tierney, E., Arnold, L.E., Freeman, B.J., Martin, A., McGough, J.J., Cronin, P., Posey, D.J., Riddle, M.A., Ritz, L., Swiezy, N.B., Vitiello, B., Volkmar, F.R., Votolato, N.A., and Walson, P. (2000b) Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network background and rationale for an initial controlled study of risperidone. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Clin North Am 9 201—224. 

Robert, R., Blakeney, P.E., Villarreal, C., Rosenberg, L., and Meyer, W.J. (1999) Imipramine treatment in pediatric burn patients with symptoms of acute stress disorder a pilot study./ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38 873-882. 

Current data suggest that the treatment of pediatric SUD requires a multi-integrated strategy. The recent American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Practice Parameters recommend that each treatment plan be tailored to the individual patient and take into consideration the patient s current developmental status (Bukstein, 1997). Psychosocial interven-... 

Lewis, M. (1996) The consultation process in child and adolescent psychiatric consultation-liaison in pediatrics. In Lewis, M., ed. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry A Comprehensive Textbook, 2nd ed. Baltimore Williams and Wilkins, pp. 935-939. 

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