(2) there was a contraindication to paroxetine therapy; (3) there was a need for additional behavioral or psychosocial interventions, or (4) the patient's parents refused to consent to their child taking psychotropic medications, MR imaging procedures, and/or the treating psychiatrist determined ...
Parents were contacted and those giving consent were evaluated one time in a multidisciplinary follow-up clinic, including a physician, developmental psychiatrist, and social worker. The child's weight, height, head circumference, and interim medical history were obtained. Assessments included Stanford ...
thanks largely in part to several large-scale, prospective studies including 1995’s landmark NIMH-sponsored project, ‘Phenomenology and Course of Pediatric Bipolarity,’ performed by Dr. Barbara Geller and colleagues at the University of Washington, St.Louis. In the years prior, there existed sub...