Bias Found for Depression Psychotherapy Trials

The medical community was disappointed, but perhaps not shocked, several years ago when it was revealed that the efficacy of antidepressant medications in the treatment of adolescent depression might not be as strong as we thought.  This bias was due to the fact that the clinical trials, most of which were funded by pharmaceutic companies, […]

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An Update on Concussion

(Editor’s Note:  I’m pleased to share this guest post by one of our first year child psychiatry fellows, Dr. Winston Chung.) More recently, one of the hot topics in Pediatrics, Neurology, and Psychiatry is the impact of concussion(s) on the developing mind. It came into the public consciousness due to the highly publicized death of […]

Anxiety Risk with Stimulants Overstated

There is a widely held concern that psychostimulants when used to treat ADHD can induce or exacerbate anxiety.  This belief has led many clinicians to hesitate about using stimulants in patients who already suffer from high level of anxiety, prompting some prescribers to try, as first-line agents, nonstimulant medications that supposedly have less risk but […]