Pediatrics News

Results from a population-based study published in CMAJ revealed that refugee and immigrant youth were more likely to present to the ED with a first mental health problem than nonimmigrant youth in Ontario, Canada, with variation by region and time since migration.

After examination of three independent cohorts, researchers found that extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volume was higher in children with autism spectrum disorder from 6 months through to age 3 years, regardless of familial risk.

Study findings revealed there were concurrent and lasting effects of teenaged cannabis use on important cognitive functions — such as working memory, perceptual reasoning and inhibitory control.

Violent video game play was linked to increases in physical aggression over time among teenagers, even after adjusting for covariates, according to a meta-analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The FDA took control of more than 1,000 pages of documents in a surprise inspection of e-cigarette maker Juul Labs last week, an FDA spokesperson told Healio Family Medicine, who also said the paperwork was connected to Juul’s marketing and sales practices.

Youth with a history of institutional rearing assigned to early foster care intervention had less problematic trajectories of psychopathology from childhood to adolescence, study findings revealed.

Shared genetic factors between parent and child account for most of the connection between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and offspring’s subsequent internalizing and externalizing issues in early childhood, according to results of analyses published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Patients with ADHD who were treated with amphetamine- or methylphenidate-based medications may be at higher risk for basal ganglia and cerebellum disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, secondary parkinsonism or essential tremor later in life, according to findings recently published in Neuropsychopharmacology.

Using data from a multi-institutional survey of college students in the United States, researchers at Ohio State University found that nearly 16% of students reported misusing prescription stimulants.

Well over half of American adults have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience in their lifetime, and nearly one-quarter reported three or more of these experiences, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics. The CDC says that these events, also known as ACEs, are linked to risky health behaviors, chronic health conditions, low life potential and early mortality.