Pediatr Crit Care Med
September 2024
Objectives: Pediatric delirium (PD) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome caused by a complex interplay between predisposing factors (e.g., age, cognitive impairment), acute illness, and environmental triggers.
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August 2022
Purpose: Negative life events (LEs) are associated with mental health problems in youth. However, little is known about underlying mechanisms. The aim of the study was to investigate whether exposure to LEs modifies stress sensitivity in youth's daily life.
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April 2021
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
January 2021
Bullying victimization confers the risk for developing various mental disorders, but studies investigating candidate mechanisms remain scarce, especially in the realm of youth mental health. Elevated stress sensitivity may constitute a mechanism linking bullying victimization and mental health problems. In the current study, we aimed to investigate whether exposure to bullying victimization amplifies stress sensitivity in youth's daily life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe clinical presentations of autoimmune encephalitides tend to be a mixture of neuropsychiatric and somatic symptoms. The focus of this chapter concerns these clinical problems: the clinical phenomenology, the prevalence, and the possible pathophysiologies of anti-NMDAR or the other types of autoimmune encephalitis. We also specifically address the psychopharmacologic and nonpsychopharmacologic treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: One of the most important questions remaining in matters of critical illness in the year 2019 is arguably how to address the diverse neuropsychiatric complications of critical illness.
Main Text: The ICD-11 and DSM-5, two of the world's leading classification systems, disagree regarding important aspects of delirium; moreover, they do not mention critical illness and its neuropsychiatric complications at all.
Conclusions: It would have been desirable for the committees revising the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 to have joined forces in order to generate classification systems that complement each other and, moreover, that address the "The Neuro-Psychiatry of Critical Illness".
Prim Care Companion CNS Disord
February 2017
Objective: This article presents an update on cyclic vomiting syndrome, a potentially exhausting disorder that can occur in children, adolescents, and adults and and has a huge impact on the quality of life. A structured literature search was conducted to explore the current knowledge about antipsychotics in the treatment of cyclic vomiting syndrome. A case report is presented of a 15-year-old boy with refractory cyclic vomiting syndrome ( criteria), who finally responded to a unique combination of risperidone and amitriptyline.
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