Jess Shatkin, MD
Vice chair for education and professor of child & adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. Author of Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe (Penguin Random House).
Dr. Shatkin has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Discussing medications with adolescents can be challenging. Because there is so much variation in family structure and the problems that kids and families face, it’s important to maintain some flexibility in how clinicians evaluate adolescents.
Jess Shatkin, MD
Vice chair for education and professor of child & adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. Author of Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe (Penguin Random House).
Dr. Shatkin has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
In this interview, Dr. Shatkin talks about how the adolescent brain works, and how we can use this understanding to work more effectively in our practices with both adolescents and their parents. There’s a misconception that dopamine equates to pleasure. It’s not pleasure; it’s the promise of pleasure. Dopamine is the idea that something great might happen. And so high dopamine levels drive kids into high-risk situations with high amounts of potential pleasure. This is aggravated by the fact that the frontal cortical areas are not well myelinated yet and not well connected to the limbic system. So, when kids are younger, they have less control over those impulsive drives.
Arian Ayon Verduzco, Pharm.D candidate (2018)Ms. Verduzco has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Tic disorders, including Tourette’s, often co-occur with ADHD, OCD, and anxiety disorders. Guanfacine is often tried for all of these conditions. Randomized placebo-controlled trials of immediate release guanfacine have been mixed, with one showing 31% improvement in tics but another showing no significant improvement.
Arian Ayon Verduzco. Pharm.D candidate (2018)Ms. Verduzco has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Some studies have indicated that patients with ADHD may be at an increased risk of suicide. While these studies have shown associations between methylphenidate use and suicide, it is not clear whether the stimulant actually causes suicidality or whether patients taking stimulants are suicidal for other reasons.
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We’re pleased to introduce Joshua D. Feder, MD, as the new editor-in-chief of the Carlat Child Psychiatry Report. Dr. Feder attended Boston University School of Medicine, and did his internship and psychiatry residency at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, followed by a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
Scott Shannon, MD
Assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado
Dr. Shannon has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Integrative approaches to treating ADHD have become increasingly sought after by parents, especially those who are concerned about the side effects and potential overuse of psychostimulant medication.