Does multimodal inpatient treatment help some adolescents with severe ARFID?

Introduction: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a recently described disorder. Data on inpatient treatment is still scarce, ARFID mainly being an outpatient condition. The purpose of this study is to describe a rare population of adolescents with severe ARFID receiving full-time multimodal inpatient care by examining their clinical characteristics, management, and evolution.

Vegetarianism and eating disorders: The subjective experience of healthcare professionals.

Vegetarianism is growing dramatically among adolescents and young adults. Professionals specialized in eating disorders (ED) may routinely face patients adhering to these popular vegetarian practices. This qualitative study aimed to investigate healthcare professionals' subjective experience of vegetarianism in ED patients.

Mental health in adolescents with obesity: conflicting views among physicians, a qualitative study.

Mental health issues in adolescents with obesity are multifold, with no explicit screening recommendations. The aim of this research is to explore how this screening is performed by physicians and, thus, how it impacts adolescents' care pathways, offering insights into how to improve it through a qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Twenty physicians (non-psychiatrist physicians and child and adolescent psychiatrists) involved at various stages in the care pathway were interviewed with semi-structured questionnaires.

["Roma adolescents: a more varied reality than we think"].

The Roma are a population that has been recorded in Europe since the Middle Ages. Today, there are more than ten million of them on the European continent, especially in Eastern Europe. They form several groups of great linguistic, cultural and social diversity, who are generally stigmatized by the majority populations despite multiple forms of integration.

["The interpreter, a third party who remains present"].

Stéphanie Larchanché is a medical anthropologist and therapist who specializes in the study of cultural representations of illness and care strategies in a migratory context, particularly in mental health. Currently a consultant, independent trainer and head of research at Sigmund-Freud University-Paris, she has, for twelve years, directed training, teaching and research activities at the Françoise-Minkowska medical-psychological center in Paris. She is also an administrator of the ISM-Interpretariat association, and has a pertinent view of the role played by the interpreter with the health professional and his patient.

When refeeding is not enough: severe and prolonged pancytopenia in an adolescent with anorexia nervosa.

A 15-year-old female patient with anorexia nervosa presented an unusually prolonged and severe episode of pancytopenia with severe thrombopenia and severe leucopenia. Despite effective refeeding, active specialized interventions were necessary. Upon admission, the patient presented with severe and symptomatic thrombopenia, severe neutropenia and gelatinous marrow transformation.

Crowd-sourcing observations of volcanic eruptions during the 2021 Fagradalsfjall and Cumbre Vieja events.

Two remarkable 2021 eruptions – Fagradalsfjall (Reykjanes, Iceland) and Cumbre Vieja (La Palma, Spain) – have been captured in imagery and videography at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution by tourists, volcano-enthusiasts, and media organizations. We propose this represents the start of a new era for observational volcanology, with the abundance of eruption imagery leveraged for scientific use.

[Professional representation of chronic idiopathic musculoskeletal pain in adolescents].

Chronic idiopathic musculoskeletal pain is common in adolescence, and its impact is sometimes severe. The diagnostic process, which consists of eliminating other etiologies, can be long, complex, and at risk of medical nomadism. Specialists rely on many clinical elements to orient themselves.

Chronic idiopathic musculoskeletal pain in youth: a qualitative study.

Background: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (MSP) is frequent in adolescents and has major medical and social consequences. In many cases, when no cause has been clearly established, this pain may be considered to be chronic idiopathic MSP. Our study seeks to identify general criteria for this type of pain through the experience of professionals from tertiary care centers with expertise in pediatric and adolescent chronic MSP.

Variation of thermal plasticity in growth and reproduction patterns: Importance of ancestral and developmental temperatures.

Temperature is an important ecological driver modulating life history traits of organisms, such as growth and reproduction. With the ongoing global warming, understanding the mechanisms underlying the effect of temperature on size and resource allocation trade-off is crucial. The temperature-size rule (TSR) describes plastic growth patterns in populations of ectothermic species under different thermal environments, whereby warming results in faster initial growth but lower size at maturity.