Pediatrics
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Childhood survivors of gun violence: What’s the long-term outlook?
While parents may be inclined to baby the kids after the violence, it’s important to maintain routines.
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Video game obsession: Definitions and best treatments remain elusive
But psychiatrists are gaining more insight into the condition also known as Internet gaming disorder.
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Cannabis vaping continues its rise in teens
Use of cannabis without vaping declined, but use of other substances also increased among adolescents who vaped cannabis.
From the Journals
Four mental health trajectories in youth: Predicting persistent psychopathology
Boys in childhood made up a larger proportion of the psychopathology profiles.
Feature
Medical education programs tell how climate change affects health
Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
Opinion
When coping skills and parenting behavioral interventions ‘don’t work’
Coping skills and behavioral interventions do not immediately cure anxiety, mend broken hearts, correct disruptive behaviors, disentangle power...
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Study provides new analysis of isotretinoin and risk for adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes
Although severe neuropsychiatric effects associated with isotretinoin therapy in patients with acne have been reported, “the evidence base ... is...
Commentary
Mood instability in childhood as a precursor to bipolar disorder
Clinicians should include measurement of the severity and psychosocial determinants of persistent mood shifts in youth under their care.
From the Journals
Few children with early social gender transition change their minds
Five-year data show that more than 90% of children who chose to socially transition their gender identity maintain it 5 years later.
From the Journals
CBT or hypnotherapy may help kids’ functional abdominal pain
Children treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy experienced less frequent and less severe abdominal pain than those who did not receive any...
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Hospital readmission remains common for teens with nonfatal drug overdose
Opioids were the main cause of both incident and recurrent hospitalizations according to the 2016 Nationwide Readmissions Database.