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Josh Feder, MD
Child and family psychiatrist, Solana Beach, CA, Editor-in-Chief of the Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
Dr. Feder has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Informed consent is a foundation for good clinical practice and can provide legal protection. But informed consent is more than defensive medicine. It is a vehicle for framing good care. How often do people use the consent process?
Josh Feder, MD
Child and family psychiatrist, Solana Beach, CA, Editor-in-Chief of the Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
Dr. Feder has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
What do you do when your teen patient declines an offer of medication yet the parents insist on it? How about if the teen is coming to you for medication and the parents are opposed to the idea?
Mark Chenven, MD
Private practice child and adolescent psychiatrist, San Diego, CA
Dr. Chenven has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
How do you approach using psychotropic medications for children and adolescents? Most parents do not want to start medications. I empathize with them, which then makes it possible to move together toward medications when indicated.
Adam Strassberg, MD
Psychiatrist in private practice in Palo Alto, CA. Contributing writer to the Carlat Report newsletters.
Dr. Strassberg has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Metformin has been used off-label for weight loss in psychiatry for many years, much of it for help with adult weight gain as a side effect of atypical antipsychotics. However, most trials of metformin for weight loss were actually conducted on the child and adolescent population. This article will look at the quality of the data in our pediatric population of 3 studies, and then come up with some recommendations for your practice.
Mark Chenven, MD
Private practice child and adolescent psychiatrist, San Diego, CA
Dr. Chenven has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Good practice using psychotropic medications with children and adolescents requires a psychiatrist to pay attention to a number of elements.
Adam Strassberg, MD.Dr. Strassberg has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Over the last decade, several published studies have reported an increased risk of type 2 diabetes associated with antidepressant use in adults. But does the same hold true for children and adolescents?
Joshua Feder, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
Anxiety is a broad concept that permeates pretty much all of our work. In particular, anxiety often compromises cognitive ability and drives acting-out behavior.
Murat Pakyurek, MD
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, University of California, Davis Medical Center
Dr. Pakyurek has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Because of their quick action, benzodiazepines (BZDs) are frequently prescribed to treat patients with anxiety and other conditions. However, clinicians need to consider the potential for unintended and problematic consequences of benzodiazepine use.
KarXT (Cobenfy) is the first antipsychotic that doesn’t block dopamine. We trace the origins of this new drug to a South Asian herb used for over 5,000 years, up to the three...