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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. Health care professionals should monitor the child’s growth and development and provide necessary interventions to mitigate weight loss.”

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Intellectual Developmental Disorder and Mental Health

Child Mind Intitute

Research shows that children with intellectual developmental disorder have a higher incidence of mental health problems than other kids, but they are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for them. Why are kids with IDD more at risk for mental health disorders?

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Could I Have an Eating Disorder?

ADDitude

In research examining eating disorder symptoms among women aged 45 to 61, body dissatisfaction was cited as a key risk factor. In 2024, more than 21% of calls to the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, a support and advocacy organization I founded in 2000, were from individuals (primarily women) age 40 and older. Transitions.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

In the protocol for my study, I noted that the textbooks should mention that the causes of psychiatric disorders are mainly environmental, and not genetic or related to a visible brain abnormality. An analysis of adverse drug events submitted to the FDA between 2004 and 2009 identified 1,937 cases of violence, 387 of which were homicide.

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Schizoaffective Disorder: Understanding the Incidence, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Now Psych

In about 30 per cent of cases, onset occurs between the ages of 25 and 35, and it is more common in women. While the exact cause is still not clear, most experts point to a combination of genetics, brain chemistry and structure, and environment. How is it Diagnosed?

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.