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A systematic review of the psychometric properties of tools for measuring depression in youths with intellectual disability
While youths with intellectual disability (ID) have increased vulnerability for depressive disorders, cognitive problems and combined functional barriers make them less prone to receive adequate treatments. A ...
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Letter to the editors: an interactive model to understand the vulnerability to emotional disorders in youths with neurodevelopmental disorders—a triple jeopardy?
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Map** genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%1, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with schizophrenia and 243,649 con...
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Missing the forest for the trees? A high rate of motor and language impairments in Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder in a chart review of inpatient adolescents
Youths with severe and persistent irritability have a particularly high rate of school failures and learning difficulties. The aim of this study was to determine whether inpatient adolescents with Disruptive M...
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Correction to: Repeating a suicide attempt during adolescence: risk and protective factors 12 months after hospitalization
In the original article, incorrect Table 1 was published. The correct Table 1 is given below.
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Repeating a suicide attempt during adolescence: risk and protective factors 12 months after hospitalization
Suicide attempts (SAs) are a public health concern in adolescence. A brief hospitalization is recommended, but access to inpatient wards is often not available. In addition, numerous risk factors for SA recurr...
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Open AccessBorderline personality disorder and prior suicide attempts define a severity gradient among hospitalized adolescent suicide attempters
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and history of prior suicide attempt (SA) have been shown to be high predictors for subsequent suicide. However, no previous study has examined how both factors interact t...
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High diagnostic value of plasma Niemann-Pick type C biomarkers in adults with selected neurological and/or psychiatric disorders
Late-onset Niemann-Pick type C (NP-C) is a rare, underdiagnosed lysosomal disease with neurological manifestations. A specific treatment, miglustat, can stabilize the disease if given early. Recently, three pl...
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Open AccessEffect of topiramate on eating behaviours in Prader-Willi syndrome: TOPRADER double-blind randomised placebo-controlled study
Prader–Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic syndrome leading to severe behavioural disorders and mild cognitive impairment. The objective of this double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial was to study...
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Suicidal behaviors and irritability in children and adolescents: a systematic review of the nature and mechanisms of the association
While many psychiatric disorders are associated with an increased risk for suicidal behaviors (SB) in children and adolescents, a few studies have explored the role of clinical symptoms based on a dimensional ...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Inpatient Youths with Severe and Early-Onset Psychiatric Disorders: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates
This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the clinical correlates of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among 158 inpatient youths with two types of severe psychiatric disorders. ACEs were retrospecti...
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Evidence-based treatments for youths with severely dysregulated mood: a qualitative systematic review of trials for SMD and DMDD
The aim of this literature review was to examine the evidence for psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments in subjects with severely dysregulated mood and to identify potential areas for improvements i...
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Early interventions for youths at high risk for bipolar disorder: a developmental approach
In recent decades, ongoing research programmes on primary prevention and early identification of bipolar disorder (BD) have been developed. The aim of this article is to review the principal forms of evidence ...
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Open AccessErratum to: Do girls with depressive symptoms exhibit more physical aggression than boys? A cross sectional study in a national adolescent sample
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Open AccessDo girls with depressive symptoms exhibit more physical aggression than boys? A cross sectional study in a national adolescent sample
The relationship between depression and aggressive behaviors in adolescents has previously been reported in clinical and epidemiological studies. However, there is conflicting evidence concerning the effect of...
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Treatment use in a prospective naturalistic cohort of children and adolescents with catatonia
We aimed to (1) describe the treatment used in a large sample of young inpatients with catatonia, (2) determine which factors were associated with improvement and (3) benzodiazepine (BZD) efficacy. From 1993 t...
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Open AccessSuicidal behaviors in depressed adolescents: role of perceived relationships in the family
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults in Europe. Reducing suicides is therefore a key public health target. Previous studies have shown associations between suicidal beha...
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Open AccessMalignant catatonia due to anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis in a 17-year-old girl: case report
Anti-NMDA-Receptor encephalitis is a severe form of encephalitis that was recently identified in the context of acute neuropsychiatric presentation. Here, we describe the case of a 17-year-old girl referred fo...
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Phenomenology, socio-demographic factors and outcome upon discharge of manic and mixed episodes in hospitalized adolescents
The existence of bipolar disorder type I (BD-I) during adolescence is now clearly established whereas there are still some controversies on BD-II and BD-NOS diagnosis, mainly in Europe (O’Dowd in Br Med J 29, ...
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Treatments in child and adolescent bipolar disorders
The existence of bipolar disorder in adolescents is now clearly established. However, whether bipolarity exists in children is more controversial. We reviewed the literature on acute and prophylactic treatment...
