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PANDAS and First-Degree Relatives

Psychiatric Disorders in First-Degree Relatives of Children with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) 3 (A journal article by Lougee, Perlmutter, Nicolson, Garvey, and Swedo) This Article Review is...

PANDAS: Identification and Possible Treatment

PANDAS has unique criteria and characteristics differentiating it from classic childhood OCD or tic disorders.

Treatment Update of OCD

Current trends in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Lisa Bonavita The Pennsylvania State University - College of Medicine November 2004 DSM-IV Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Either Obsessions or Compulsions: Obsessions defined as all of...

Pharmacologic Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Pharmacologic Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents Amy Bridgeman The Pennsylvania State University - College of Medicine October 2003 Diagnosis DSM IV criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (8): Either obsessions or...

OCD – A Treatment Review

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic, waxing and waning, DSM-IV Axis I disorder in which patients have recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that increase their anxiety level. They usually relieve this anxiety with recurrent standardized behaviors (compulsions). These symptoms are ego-dystonic and cause significant distress in the patients’ lives.

Fighting Anorexia

Fighting Anorexia: No One to Blame Dec. 5, 2005 Newsweek issue - "The age of their youngest patients has slipped to 9 years old, and doctors have begun to research the roots of this disease. Anorexia is probably hard-wired, the new thinking goes, and the best...

Feeding Disorders of Infants and Toddlers

Feeding Disorders of Infants and Toddlers: Infantile Anorexia Alice Lawrence Penn State College of Medicine 2003 Feeding disorders can occur in infants secondary to many different causes. These disorders can lead to failure to thrive in the infant, and thus...

Relapse in Anorexia

Approaches to the Reduction of Relapse Rates in Persons with Anorexia Nervosa

Therapy in Anorexia

Therapies for the Inpatient Treatment of Anorexia nervosa

Firesetting

Firesetting Behaviors Romberg The Pennsylvania State University- College of Medicine July 2003 Normal adult fire behavior is the result of appropriate, supervised childhood: Fire interest: 3-5yo Fireplay: 5-9yo Firesetting: >10yo Psychosocial factors such as...

Behavioral Problems and Fetal Alcohol Exposure

Behavioral Problems Associated with Fetal Alcohol Exposure Laura Arensmeyer April 2004 Introduction Ethanol crosses the placenta and causes CNS cell death by apoptosis, and reduces neural cell genesis. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Prenatal or postnatal growth...

Therapy in Disruptive Behavior Disorders

The Disruptive Behavior Disorders are the most common psychiatric disorder of childhood, with a prevalence of 4-9% of the entire pediatric population.