Articles related to Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Baseline activity in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right precuneus during working memory and emotion-regulation tasks was associated with depression severity one year later in young adults at elevated risk for affective disorders, but not with future mania symptoms.

A report examining a celebrity-backed sports prediction campaign highlights concerns about increasing youth exposure to gambling-related marketing. The article connects growing gambling participation among adolescents and young adults with evidence linking gambling disorder to adverse mental health outcomes, including suicidality.

Loss of the membrane-regulating protein NSF in dopamine D2 receptor-expressing neurons was associated with hyperactivity, impulsive behavior, and reduced striatal dopamine signaling in mice. The findings offer mechanistic insight into ADHD biology, although clinical relevance remains unproven.

Childhood ADHD was associated with higher rates of adult psychiatric and neurologic hospitalization in a Finnish birth cohort followed into adulthood, while most somatic health outcomes showed little evidence of a sustained association.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving more than 230,000 adolescents found that greater social jet lag was associated with higher anxiety levels. The findings identified a consistent but small association and did not establish causality.

Childhood trauma was associated with altered hippocampal reward-pathway connectivity and greater adult anhedonia in a large neuroimaging cohort. The findings identify a potential neurobiological link but did not establish causality.