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Diagnostic Complexity in Pediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis Presenting as Acute Psychosis: A Case Report
Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a neuroimmune disorder that may present in children and adolescents with predominantly psychiatric symptoms, leading to significant diagnostic challenges and overlap with primary psychiatric disorders. We describe a 13-year-old male with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who presented with abrupt-onset insomnia, paranoia, visual…
Correction 65 (x) Xie_Xiang Part II
Reader inquiry called attention to “Optimizing Pharmacological Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Major Depressive Disorder: An Individual Participant Data Analysis” (Xiang et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2026.05.010). In the supplement, the authors refer to the COD-FISH Tool, a peer-reviewed method developed by Drahota, Trivella, and Higgins, and…
Meta-Analytic Evidence of Clinical, Cognitive, Biological and Treatment Characteristics of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Results From an Umbrella Review
To comprehensively synthesize the meta-analytic evidence regarding bipolar spectrum disorder (BSD) in children and adolescents. — Excerpt from Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Read More
A Physician-Scientist in the Real Clinical World—Authors’ Reply
We are grateful to Dr. Scharko, who drew on his experience as a physician, scientist, educator, and mentor to offer a thoughtful response to our brief Commentary1 that reflects an important perspective.2 We agree with his concern that protected time and funding to conduct research…
A Physician-Scientist in the Real Clinical World
The Commentary by Veenstra-VanderWeele et al.1 is most persuasive in its call to combine clinical and research training within child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) fellowship programs. The field is wide open, and anyone with the appropriate training as a physician-scientist will be able to make…
Newport Healthcare Brings Back CEO, Lays Off Staff
Newport Healthcare’s CEO office is turning over at the same time it institutes additional layoffs and facility closures to again shrink its national footprint. This is the third such action in the past year or so. Brian Setzer, who became CEO on Dec. 9, 2024,…
Headspace Issues Layoffs Following Sword Health Acquisition
It has been a little over two weeks since Sword Health’s acquisition of the San Francisco-based digital therapy and psychiatry company Headspace officialy closed and now the combined entity has started to roll out post-transaction layoffs. Public documents filed by Sword Health and Headspace part…
Assessing Suicide Risk Reduction in the Interval Before Death by Suicide Using Natural Language Processing
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — There is enduring clinical apprehension around high-suicide-risk patients whose symptoms seem to quickly improve.1 This worry centers on the possibility that what is perceived as improvement may be fleeting or, worse, could represent a means…
Focused Behavior Solutions Files for Bankruptcy Citing Reimbursement Delays as Key Cause
Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy provider based in Walla Walla, Washington, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents. The filing documents cited delayed reimbursement payments and high-cost debt as two factors contributing to the organization’s cash flow issues.…
Hungry for Scale, Wary of Reimbursement: The Behavioral Health M&A Dilemma
To sell or not to sell, that is the question facing private equity and behavioral health operators today. Timing the market has rarely felt this complicated. On one hand, it’s hard to turn on the news without hearing about today’s inflationary pressures on consumers, and…
Vintage Find, Modern Emergency: Unexpected Methaqualone Ingestion in an Adolescent
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Adolescents with substance use disorders may obtain intoxicants through unconventional sources. We report a case of an adolescent who ingested what he believed to be an over-the-counter cold preparation obtained at an estate sale with…
Acute Psychosis and Delirium During Menstruation in a Premenopausal Woman With Urinary Tract Infection
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Delirium is a recognized complication of urinary tract infection (UTI) in older adults, with proposed mechanisms including neuroinflammation, vascular dysfunction, metabolic disturbance, neurotransmitter imbalance, and impaired neuronal connectivity.1 A 2015 systematic review2 extending beyond geriatric…
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