Psychiatry

Kids have higher ADHD risk in mothers experiencing eclampsia during pregnancy.

Drug combination with memantine could improve executive function in ADHD.

Surprising links exist between kids with asthma, parental influence, & anxiety.

Atomoxetine was better than comparators in improving symptoms of ADHD.

Don't drink peroxide, even if alternative medicine promotes it.

Hahnemann University Hospital has launched the Gender Reassignment Surgical Program – a new gender affirmation program for transgender patients. Hahnemann will offer both female-to-male and male-to-female gender confirming surgeries.

Almost 50% kids' ADHD symptoms persisting to adulthood may depend on diagnosis.

After spotty trials, Alcobra's MDX met its end as a potential ADHD treatment.

Quantitative EEG is not the way to diagnose ADHD, guidelines say.

Researchers suspect cognitive training can prevent the development attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in infants.

When invited guests at holiday gatherings include those struggling with substance abuse, what's a host or hostess to do?

Researchers suggest that family-based cognitive behavioral therapy may be a key factor in treating children with autism spectrum disorder who have problems sleeping.

Researchers report that atopic dermatitis (AD) is associated with increased risk of ADHD in adults and children. Patients with more severe AD were at even higher risk.

University of Houston researchers suggest that children who experience inadequate or disrupted sleep are more likely to develop depression and anxiety orders later in life.

The researchers noted that suicide in this age group is not well studied, despite a recent uptick: in 2014, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death for children aged 5 to 11 years.

Despair may drive parents of children with chronic illnesses to seek unproven alternative remedies. The British Medical Journal reports on what happened to a 4-year-old with autism.

Adults diagnosed with bipolar disorder are much more likely than the general population to have suffered emotional, physical, or sexual abuse as children.

For women who develop depression and anxiety issues during pregnancy and after childbirth they could be susceptible to having more issues later in life. However, with the right care they can be successfully treated and enjoy all the good things that come with being a parent.

In these busy times there can be many things that can get in the way of a healthy relationship on a variety of levels. Identifying these barriers and knowing what to do about them can be very difficult issues to tackle for patients and providers alike.

Pain management is everyone's job. It's a human problem.

There is a lot of regulatory scrutiny, media attention, and confusion about managing pain, so patient education should be at the forefront of physicians' minds.

As conditions like PTSD have been brought to the forefront work has been done to help not only current service members but also veterans who may be dealing with that and other conditions during and after service.

The treatment of ADHD has made a lot of progress from where it was just a few years ago. Despite that there is much more work to be done to help this patient population.

As the diagnosis process for adults with ADHD becomes more commonplace in medicine today there is still a gap in finding effective treatments to help patients with the condition from childhood to adulthood.

When most people think of palliative care their first thought is likely to hospice and end of life oncology care, but experts in the field are working to change and expand that perception to other areas of health care as well.