Neurology
Cases That Test Your Skills
Regression, depression, and the facts of life
A teen with Down syndrome changes schools and suddenly becomes angry and isolative. His developmental skills regress, and he’s talking with...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Tics and tourette’s disorder: Which therapies, and when to use them
First-line medications have changed; a new 6-step approach considers clinical experience and insights into tic causes and comorbidities.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Drug therapy algorithms target autism’s problem behaviors
Having an evidence-based game plan can help you manage maladaptive behaviors that are holding back children or adults with autism.
Commentary
Atypical antipsychotics and autism
Evidence-Based Reviews
ADHD and substance abuse: 4 therapeutic options for patients with addictions
One-half of adults with ADHD have abused alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, or other drugs. Instead of stimulants, antidepressants can treat their ADHD...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Adult ADHD: Less hyperactivity, but lingering inattention and distress
Adults with undiagnosed ADHD are probably in your office, bringing their hyperactive children to you for treatment. Now you can improve adults’...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Adult ADHD: Less hyperactivity, but lingering inattention and distress
Adults with undiagnosed ADHD are probably in your office, bringing their hyperactive children to you for treatment. Now you can improve adults’...
From the Editor
Pediatric psychiatry is growing up
From the Editor
Pediatric psychiatry is growing up
Evidence-Based Reviews
EEGs and epilepsy: When seizures mimic psychiatric illness
If a patient with psychiatric illness has seizure-like episodes, an abnormal EEG may help confirm the diagnosis. This neurologist offers five case...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease: A team approach to successful management
How can you make sound treatment decisions when almost no evidence exists on the use of psychotropics in patients with Parkinson’s disease? A...