A parent’s guide to determining whether your child has ADHD and what treatment is best: recognizing symptoms, finding a doctor, evaluating medications, and helping your child thrive with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Free Parenting Guide for Moms & Dads with ADHD Parenting is a hard job, whether you’re a stay-at-home dad or a busy working… Continuar lendo Does My Child Have ADHD?
The diagnostic entity of bipolar disorder has evolved substantially over time, in particular in children and adolescents. The introduction of hypomania as a diagnostic entity in DSM-III-R broadened the definition of bipolar disorder to include patients with symptoms of mania of shorter duration without significant impairment, and subsequent work has demonstrated substantial morbidity in patients with bipolar… Continuar lendo Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Hypomania, and Bipolar Disorder in Youth.
Treating the approximately 9 million US adolescents with obesity is challenging because of the complex nature of this chronic disease. Adolescence is a critical period for managing obesity, owing to the dynamic physiological and psychological changes inherent to this period of growth and development. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2752560?guestAccessKey=b006b1cc-2489-4c91-9021-70bed9870689&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=093019