Conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 guideline adherence in adolescent psychiatric outpatients: the predictive role of adverse childhood experiences.

Background: Conspiracy beliefs have become widespread throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies have shown that endorsing conspiracy beliefs leads to lower protective guideline adherence (i.e.

Balancing the brain of offenders with psychopathy? Resting state EEG and electrodermal activity after a pilot study of brain self-regulation training.

Although investigation of the brains of criminals began quite early in the history of psychophysiological research, little is known about brain plasticity of offenders with psychopathy. Building on our preliminary study reporting successful brain self-regulation using slow cortical potential (SCP) neurofeedback in offenders with psychopathy, we investigated the central nervous and autonomic peripheral changes occurring after brain self-regulation in a group of severe male offenders with psychopathy. Regarding the central nervous system, an overall suppression of the psychopathic overrepresentation of slow frequency bands was found, such as delta and theta band activity, after EEG neurofeedback.

[Review about psychopharmaceuticals for the use in children and adolescents with a respective license in Austria].

Given an indication for pharmacological treatment, prescribers can only draw from a rather limited number of substances with a label for the treatment of children and adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders. In order to capture the currently available substances with such a label in Austria and to thus provide one element of informed patient education, the Austrian medicinal product index of the Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care has been systematically searched. The resulting tables are being presented.

[Guideline for off-label use of psychotropic drugs in children and adolescents].

Off-label use is the practice of prescribing pharmaceuticals for an unapproved indication or in an unapproved age group, unapproved dose or unapproved form of administration. Many psychotropic drugs are not put through the rigorous formal process required to officially approve the drug for use in children and adolescents. If no approved drugs are available for a specific indication, child psychiatrists have to decide, whether to utilize the corresponding product authorized for adults, or not to treat with drugs.

[Pharmacotherapy of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbid disorders].

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed disorders in child and adolescent psychiatry. Patients with ADHD show increased risk for comorbid psychiatric disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, tic disorders and disruptive behavior disorders. Using criteria and methods of evidence-based medicine, in this paper possible algorithms for ADHD and comorbid disorders are presented.

[Autocastration of a young schizophrenic man].

Objective: Self-mutilation of the genitals in man is a rare phenomenon mainly occurring in young males. The importance of conflicts about the male role, difficulties with the male identification in childhood and feeling of guilt for sexual offences are discussed in the literature. The influence of developmental crisis on this symbolic form of automutilation will be discussed in our case report.

Tension-type headache in different age groups at two headache centers.

At two headache centers, one for children and adolescents and the other for adults, we investigated patients aged 5-80 years with episodic or chronic tension-type headache to evaluate the relation between age and headache characteristics as well as analgesics intake. We found an increasing headache frequency and duration, an increasing variability of the headache location, and an increasing frequency of nausea with increasing age. All other headache features did not depend on age.