Pediatrics News

Youths who received medication in a timely manner were less likely to discontinue treatment for opioid use disorder compared with youths who received behavioral health services only, according to recently published study results in JAMA Pediatrics. However, researchers said this “critical evidence-based intervention” is underused in younger patients.

Findings published in Biological Psychiatry reported that amino acid dysregulation metabotypes may offer a way to diagnose a subset of children with autism spectrum disorder earlier.

The estimated prevalence of diagnosed ADHD in U.S. children and adolescents increased significantly in the last 2 decades, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Two different methodological approaches — instrumental variable and co-relative analysis —implemented in a large sample of Swedish participants followed for an average of 19 years, indicated a causal connection between academic achievement assessed at age 16 years and drug abuse.

Children and teenagers with autism spectrum disorder — especially those without intellectual disability — were more likely to have depression by young adulthood than the general population, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

Children who lived in households with adults who smoked or were depressed demonstrated a significant increase in ADHD prevalence, according to findings recently published in Asia-Pacific Psychiatry.

Study findings published in Depression & Anxiety showed that a mother’s depression altered their child’s stress and immune systems intactness and social repertoire, decreasing their resilience and increasing their susceptibility to psychopathology.

Gene expression activity within oral microbial communities may be altered in children with autism spectrum disorder, findings published in Autism Research revealed.

Children and teenagers with more frequent disruption in their residential environments were at higher risk for nonaffective psychosis, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Children with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, achieved greater improvement of constipation and insomnia symptoms when families were involved in setting treatment goals compared with prescriptive treatment goals set by clinicians, according to study results published in Pediatrics.