Child and adolescent clinical psychopharmacology

Practical child and adolescent psychopharmacology

Child and adolescent psychopharmacology in the new millennium: a workshop for academia, industry, and government.

OBJECTIVE To give academic researchers, government officials, and industry scientists an opportunity to assess the state of pediatric psychopharmacology and identify challenges facing professionals in the field. METHOD Increased federal spending and the introduction of pediatric exclusivity led to large increases in pediatric psychopharmacology research in the 1990s. Despite the increase in r...

Child Psychopharmacology – Gaps in Knowledge

The rapid growth of child psychopharmacology has been nothing short of being phenomenal. Not only have the types of medications available increased dramatically, but so have their annual rates of production and prescription. But There is, however, inadequate research on the physiological and behavioural effects of psychoactive medications; their long term effects, the mechanisms of their action...

Philosophy of clinical psychopharmacology.

The renewal of the philosophical debate in psychiatry is one exciting news of recent years. However, its use in psychopharmacology may be problematic, ranging from self-confinement into the realm of values (which leaves the evidence-based domain unchallenged) to complete rejection of scientific evidence. In this paper philosophy is conceived as a conceptual audit of clinical psychopharmacology....

Current issues in child and adolescent psychopharmacology. Part 2: Anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorders, autism, Tourette’s and schizophrenia

Part 1 of this two-part consideration of child and adolescent psychopharmacology focused on attention–deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression and bipolar disorder (Coghill, 2003). This second paper concentrates on current pharmacological approaches to the treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorders, autism, Tourette syndrome and schizophrenia. The aim is to describe...