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Childhood
May 25, 2018
Poll Finds 87% of US Adults Think Children Need More Mental Health Support
In a poll of 2,014 adults in the US, 87% believed that children need more mental health support. For over a decade, the editors of the BNN have been emphasizing the great need for earlier recognition and treatment of child...
Public Policy
September 10, 2015
US Lags Behind Canada in Access to RTMS
At the 2015 meeting of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Society, Linda Carpenter, an American researcher who specializes in repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a method of treating depression by using a...
Public Policy
November 7, 2013
NIMH May Move Away from Using DSM-5
The psychiatric community has been preparing for the 2013 release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) by the American Psychiatric Association for years. Each new edition of t...
Public Policy
November 5, 2010
Treatment Studies for Childhood Onset Bipolar Illness Are Inadequately Funded
It was remarkable that at the Pediatric Bipolar Conference hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation this past March in Cambridge, Massachusetts, none of the plenary talks, a...