Pediatrics News

Distinct psychological pathways may exist between developmental trauma during childhood and/or adolescence and psychotic phenomena in adulthood, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in World Psychiatry.

A significant proportion of teens and young adults in the United States prescribed a psychoactive drug reported misusing that drug, according to study results published in Family Medicine and Community Health.

School-aged children and adolescents had a relatively high prevalence of self-reported psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

A computerized suicidal risk screen appeared able to successfully identify suicide attempt risk among youth, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Students who experienced a concussion were more likely to engage in potentially risky and dangerous behaviors than their peers who were not concussed, an analysis showed. However, researchers could not establish causality.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its five most-viewed stories in January.

Cannabis use disorder was associated with self-harm, all-cause mortality, unintentional overdose death and homicide among youth with mood disorders, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Several experts provided an overview of the psychological stressors linked to the COVID-19 pandemic in a virtual presentation presented by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Frequently used neuroimaging measures did not show a discrete brain signature associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors among youths, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Neural reward circuitry function did not appear to differentiate youths with anxiety from healthy youths, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in American Journal of Psychiatry.