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Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal...
There is a growing hypothesis that there exist in a small subset of children, a form of rapidly forming obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorder known as PANDAS. PANDAS is an acronym for...
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Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Often times bipolar disorder is thought of as an illness that effects mostly young adults, and while the average age of bipolar disorder is around the age of 21, younger children and teens can also be...
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Is Pretending to be Pregnant a Mental Illness?
In The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir, Gaby Rodriguez faked her own pregnancy as a social experiment, but teenage girls pretending to be pregnant is not a new phenomenon. Over the past three years I’ve...
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Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) are also known as Autistic Spectrum Disorders. They include a group of five neurological disorders characterized by developmental delays of basic functions such...
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On Autistic Disorder
In my years in the field of mental health, I’ve had the privilege to work briefly with children who had Autistic Disorder. That brief time gave me a tremendous amount of respect for these children,...
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On Asperger’s Disorder
In the 1940s, a pediatrician working in a clinic in Vienna named Hans Asperger treated several patients who displayed similar symptoms. However, because his work was conducted during World War II, none...
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On Rett Syndrome
An Introduction to Rett Syndrome What separates Rett syndrome from the other Pervasive Developmental Disorders is that it almost exclusively affects girls, whereas Autistic Disorder affects boys at a...
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On Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
We conclude our discussion on the Pervasive Developmental Disorders with a brief overview of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. Introduction Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD), is also known as...
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Presidential Election Stress Disorder
The morning after the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, I got a long text message from a very good friend saying that she was extremely stressed about...
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Disordered Eating And Body Image Issues In Teenage Girls: Part 1
Working in a high school with teenage girls, I come across teenage girls with body image issues regularly. Take for instance, one of my 15 year old clients who is so convinced that she is fat that when...
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