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Antidepressants and Suicide Risk in Children and Adults: Using Evidence to Separate Fact from Fiction
Suicide is considered rare in non-depressed individuals but it occurs in between 5 and 15% of those suffering from depression. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) is recommended for assessing an individual patient’s suicide risk. Suicide risk factors in children, adolescents and adults include untreated depression, psychosis, access to firearms. Additional factors that increase suicide risk in children and adolescents include maternal depression, witnessing suicide attempts or sexual abuse or experiencing sexual abuse or trauma themselves. Cyber-bullying is becoming more recognized as a contributing factor to suicide in youth.
Cortical Development in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Impact of Psychostimulants
There have been great advances in understanding the neurobiology of ADHD. While there appears to be some overall reduction in brain volumes in children with ADHD, several richly interconnected brain areas seem to be particularly affected- the prefrontal cortex, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. In addition recent longitudinal studies suggest that ADHD can be understood in part as due to a delay in cortical maturation.
[World Report] ESC tackles child congenital heart disease in poor countries
An inspirational idea from the European Society of Cardiology president's wife means children with heart defects in poor countries are starting to get vital care. Tony Kirby reports.
[Fwd: Re: 45,000 More Psychiatrists, Anyone?]
Amoxicillin-Induced Hemolytic Anemia in a Child with Glucose 6-Phosphate Isomerase Deficiency
OBJECTIVE: To describe the first case of amoxicillin-induced
nonimmune hemolytic anemia in a child with glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI)
deficiency.
[Comment] Offline: The Chatham House Rule, over-ruled
News from Washington, DC. The Women Deliver conference was a great success, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of one woman, Jill Sheffield, and her team. It captured the political moment for maternal, newborn, and child health. A dilemma though. Some who claim visible leadership in global health—Ban Ki-Moon and Melinda Gates, for example—failed to speak up for 20 million women who each year face unsafe abortions. These women are the marginalised of the marginalised. Canada is backing maternal and child health at the G8 this month.
[Comment] Testing autism interventions: trials and tribulations
In The Lancet today, Jonathan Green and colleagues report results from a multisite randomised trial in children with autism. The investigators compared a parent-training technique that targeted enhancement of the child's social-communication skills (two of the three core deficits in autism) with treatment as usual. The primary outcome was the social-communication score from the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), a widely used diagnostic tool. Secondary outcomes included parent–child interaction, child language, social communication, and measures of adaptive functioning.