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For women with alcohol SUD, try gender-specific treatment
Dr. Shelly F. Greenfield says effective interventions address adjunctive services such as child care.
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Is anxiety normal or pathological? Age of onset is key
NEW YORK – Dr. John T. Walkup reports that the time frame for signs of pathological anxiety is typically between ages 6 and 12 years.
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Latest PANS trials suggest cause may be treatable
NEW YORK – Dr. Barbara J. Coffey said the evidence base for treating the neuropsychiatric illness – and PANDAS – is expanding.
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Psychiatric pharmacogenomics not ‘ready for prime time’
NEW YORK – Genetic information for drug selection will not be useful until testing is able to synthesize information from multiple genetic...
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Abrupt behavior changes in autism? ID medical triggers first
NEW YORK – Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele describes a young patient who become highly aggressive after experiencing a physical injury.
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Reactive aggressive disorder in children with ADHD is looking for a name
NEW YORK – Early treatment can reverse impulsive aggression in preadolescents.
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Characterize duration when seeking etiology of tantrums in children
Duration and type of aggression are useful in the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disease.
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Brain structural changes on MRI predict sudden death in epilepsy
WASHINGTON – Data on structural differences don’t reveal “the cause of SUDEP, but they do show correlations that are consistent with current...
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Seizures captured on a smartphone found diagnostic for epilepsy
WASHINGTON – Study suggests that smartphone video could be an adjunctive diagnostic tool and accelerate time to diagnosis.
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Efficacy of neurostimulation for epilepsy underestimated with patient reports
WASHINGTON – The differences in seizure frequency from baseline were large when comparing patient reports versus electrocorticograph measurements...
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MRI-guided focused ultrasound shows promise for subcortical epilepsy
WASHINGTON – The first patient in a planned pediatric treatment series underwent successful treatment with the procedure.
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Promising add-on therapy for neonatal seizures found active in safety study
The adverse events were not substantially different in the group that received bumetanide.
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Fenfluramine trials in Dravet syndrome yield highly positive results
WASHINGTON – Adjunctive fenfluramine reduced mean monthly convulsive seizure frequency by 63.9% vs. placebo and had no evidence of cardiotoxicity...
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Continuous bedside monitoring improved safety of intracranial stereotactic EEG
WASHINGTON – Continuous monitoring was associated with fewer unrecognized seizures and a shorter time to nursing response.
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Analysis strengthens association between epilepsy onset, menarche
WASHINGTON – Adrenarche encompasses the period of risk.