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A new study creating lots of both media attention and puzzled looks explores the link between psychiatric disorders, particularly those that involve aggression and irritability, and latent infection with the protozoan parasite toxoplasma ghondii (T gondii). In hearing about this study, the first reaction of many might be why anyone bothered to look at this […]
Tags: aggression, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, toxoplasmosis
by Allison Hall, MD (Note: this post was primarily written by my colleague, child psychiatrist Dr. Allison Hall who, aside from seeing children and families directly, trains other counselors and therapists in parent behavioral training techniques. If you are interested further in the topic, she will be presenting […]
Tags: discipline, parenting, time-out
(NOTE: the following is reprinted with permission from an article published in The Conversation on March 18, 2015) There’s been a lot of attention in the media about the number of children taking antipsychotic and other psychiatric medications. The assumption behind most of these stories is that these drugs are being overprescribed, and given to […]
One of the “Holy Grails” of psychiatry is the ability not only to treat existing behavioral problems effectively but to prevent them. This task has proven challenging but remains the focus of many given the extraordinary human and financial costs associated with chronic psychopathology and criminal behavior. Some people have become somewhat pessimistic about this […]
Tags: conduct disorder, criminal behavior, fast track, prevention
The benefits of Omega-3 supplementation has been touted for a wide range of therapeutic and health promotion uses. While there is emerging data for problems such as ADHD, the literature has still suffered from issues such as small sample sizes, lack of randomization, short duration, and lingering questions about optimal dose. This recent study sought […]
Tags: aggression, callous-unemotional, omega 3
Are people with mental illness more likely to commit crimes? This question has been studied and discussed for decades, fueled by movies of deranged serial killers. For years, the conventional wisdom was that, despite the hype, individuals who suffer from psychiatric disorders are no more likely than anyone else to commit a crime. More recently, […]
The number of children and adolescents (under age 21) who are incarcerated has been steadily dropping since the mid-1990s according to a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that presents data from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The 2010 national rate of 225 youth per 100,000 is […]
