Sometimes thyroid disorders present with psychiatric symptoms. With Graves’ disease behavioral manifestations are very common, and can be the presenting symptoms. In children, these manifest as moodiness, irritability, and labile behavior.

If you want to watch a new drug wend its way to market, you might start watching the literature for ABT-809, a nicotinic receptor partial agonist and proposed novel approach to the treatment of ADHD.

A long term study comparing patients with early onset psychosis to those with later onset psychosis may have some good news for child psychiatry. While previous studies have shown worse or equivalent outcomes for younger onset patients, this study demonstrated a protective effect.

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Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is the mainstay of OCD treatment and has been shown to be more effective and more durable than medication, but it can be insufficient.

See all the approved and alternative treatments for OCD in children and adolescents.

Tourette’s syndrome is a disorder of both motor and vocal tics. If you see or hear both of these, you can make the diagnosis with confidence.

Habit reversal training (HRT) is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that systematically targets tics.

Sometimes complex motor tics and OCD compulsions can be difficult to differentiate, since both are related to urges to perform some type of activity or movement.

The overwhelming prevalence of autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has led to almost countless interventions for children and adolescents with these diagnoses. But do we really have scientific proof that any of them work?