Practical Child and Adolescent 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...

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...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...