Mental Health

Latinx teens in California who have at least one immigrant parent have reported increasing levels of anxiety related to how immigration policies in the United States may personally affect them. Researchers wrote that this anxiety increased significantly after the 2016 presidential election.

Allergan announced that the FDA has approved its supplemental biologics application for Botox, or onabotulinumtoxinA, for the treatment of patients aged 2 to 17 years with upper limb spasticity.

The suicide rate for adolescents aged 15 to 19 years and young adults aged 20 to 24 years increased in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

States that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act saw larger reductions in cases of child neglect compared with states that did not, according to an ecological study published in JAMA Network Open.

Youth unresponsive to stimulant medication alone saw greater improvement in severe irritability symptoms when they received add-on citalopram than those who received add-on placebo, according to double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial results.

Childhood behaviors, especially inattention, among kindergarten students in Canada were associated with future earnings in adulthood, according to a longitudinal study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Some of the most commonly used devices for infants — car seats, swings, bouncy seats, strollers, carriers or any device that inhibits a young child’s chance to roll, move, wiggle and kick — pose a risk for motor skill delay, plagiocephaly and/or torticollis, conditions that collectively, make up container baby syndrome, a clinical therapist told Healio Primary Care.

It was my first week of intern year, in the medical ICU. He presented in extremis and died within 90 minutes. He was reportedly bitten by his dog 3 days prior. I remember leaving the MICU in tears, overcome with emotion, feelings of guilt and helplessness, wishing I could have changed his outcome. When his admission blood cultures later grew Capnocytophaga canimorsus, I was intrigued. I was unfamiliar with the organism at the time and yearned to learn more. Henceforth, I was “hooked on ID,” forever.

Frequent nightmares were an independent risk factor of suicide attempt and nonsuicidal self-injury among teenagers in China, according to a longitudinal study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Children who consumed sweet or salty snacks and sweetened beverages had lower standardized test scores, while kids who drank water regularly performed significantly better on a switching task, according two different presentations at Nutrition 2019.