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Thursday, November 3, 2016
Highlighted Article: Narcolepsy in Adolescents: A Review and Three Case Reports
Narcolepsy in Adolescents: A Review and Three Case Reports
Author(s):
Swarnalata Debbarma and Karim Sedky Pages 264 - 272 ( 9 )
Abstract:
Background: Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic and/or hypnopompic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Due to symptom overlap and comorbidity between narcolepsy and other psychiatric disorders, narcolepsy in children and adolescents can be easily misdiagnosed. Diagnostic delay is common.
Method: We review the clinical presentations, epidemiology, etiology, diagnostic criteria, and treatment of this disabling disorder. We also present three examples of cases initially diagnosed as either a medical or psychiatric disorder, leading to a delay in management ranging from seven months to seven years.
Discussion: These cases highlight the importance for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who work with adolescents to become familiar with this uncommon disorder to shorten time to treatment of this patient population.
Method: We review the clinical presentations, epidemiology, etiology, diagnostic criteria, and treatment of this disabling disorder. We also present three examples of cases initially diagnosed as either a medical or psychiatric disorder, leading to a delay in management ranging from seven months to seven years.
Discussion: These cases highlight the importance for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who work with adolescents to become familiar with this uncommon disorder to shorten time to treatment of this patient population.
Keywords:
Narcolepsy, narcolepsy misdiagnosis, narcolepsy with cataplexy, narcolepsy without cataplexy.
Affiliation:401 Haddon Field Ave, Department of Psychiatry, Suite 346, Camden, NJ 08103.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Most Accessed Article: Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion and Hopefulness Across Clinical Settings: An Under-Appreciated, but Significant, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion and Hopefulness Across
Clinical Settings: An Under-Appreciated, but Significant, Non-Suicidal
Self-Injury
Author(s):
Gagandeep Singh, Theodore A. Petti, Michael
Gara, Barbara K. Snyder and Mark Rosato Pages 229 - 236 ( 8 )
Abstract:
Background: Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion
(DFBI) is a form of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). DFBI is a problem in
longer-term care psychiatric facilities but is poorly detailed in clinical and
general pediatric populations. Hopefulness is a construct that may prove useful
in formulating diagnosis and treatment for youth with DFBI.
Methods: Adolescents ages 11-18 years from an
adolescent medicine clinic and a psychiatric inpatient unit were surveyed to
estimate the prevalence and associated factors of DFBI in clinical settings.
They were asked to anonymously complete a questionnaire focused on coping
styles under stress that elicits basic demographics, positive and negative
coping strategies, deliberate self-harm (DSH), and DFBI.
Results: Survey completers, N=253 were ages
11-19 years; 229 responded to the question concerning DFBI. Prevalence of
reported DFBI differed with statistical significance between the settings.
Neither age nor a sense of hopefulness differed between the groups. All of the
youth with DFBI reported being very or somewhat hopeful. Degree of hopefulness
reported across the settings differed but for those with DFBI was not
significantly different. A history of DSH was correlated with a statistically
significant increased risk for DFBI.
Conclusions: DFBI occurs frequently enough to
warrant clinician inquiry especially in more restrictive settings in youth with
histories of DSH; it should be considered within the NSSI DSM-V diagnostic
classification. The sense of hopefulness in those endorsing DFBI and other NSSI
should be more fully explored for its role in formulation and treatment
planning.
Keywords:
Adolescents, deliberate foreign body
ingestion, NSSI, self-injury, suicide.
Affiliation:
671 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Podcast Ride or Die; Therapeutic Interventions for Retaliatory Violence Among Youth Adolescent Psychiatry
Ride or Die; Therapeutic Interventions for Retaliatory Violence Among Youth
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Free Online Samples of the journal Adolescent Psychiatry
It is a great pleasure to announce that from the year 2014, the first issue of every volume will be available as Open Access (for three months). These freely available journal issues will help greatly to widely disseminate the articles and lead to a greater number of citations due to the potentially much larger readership.
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ISSN: 2210-6774 (Online)
ISSN: 2210-6766 (Print)
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