Body mass index (BMI) in newly admitted child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

Introduction: Obesity is a major problem among children and adolescents suffering from chronic mental illness. State-of-the-art measures such as body mass index (BMI) and growth-related weight charts are now readily available to clinicians and investigators interested in psychotropic drug-associated weight gain in the pediatric population. However, no reports that utilize such measures in large series of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders are available.

Multimodal treatment of a child with schizophrenia.

A case is presented of a five-year-old boy with schizophrenia who received both art and play therapy within a multimodal therapeutic program. The course of the two therapies is presented followed by a discussion of the similarities and differences of the techniques, but also noting the complementary and synergistic results.

Psychiatric presentation of an arachnoid cyst.

A 23 year old white male, successful until 18 months prior to presentation, began noticing a decrease in mental functions which began to speed up with time. This progressed to a point where he had changes in his personality which appeared schizophreniform in nature. The patient was admitted to a general hospital for evaluation and a large arachnoid cyst was found in his left temporal lobe.