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  Mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, and ADHD, plague our children each year. In fact, nearly one in five children is thought to have a mental illness. A majority of these cases go undiagnosed, leaving hundreds of thousands of children at-risk for self-inflicted bodily harm. Dr. Harlan R. Gephart joins host Dr. Peter Jensen to discuss how screening tools and rating scales can be utilized proactively to identify early mental illness in children. Brought to you by 

Causes of ADHD and Brain Development

Updates from Mayo Clinic is brought to you by Mayo Clinic in partnership with ReachMD. This new series of programming focuses on a number of psychiatric and neurologic disorders including ADHD, bi-polar disorder and depression, highlighting the recent advances in their management. Scientific and clinical research updates, new treatment options, best practices in patient care are just a few of the topics that will be examined on this program. This series is hosted by Dr. Peter S. Jensen, Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
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Host: Peter S. Jensen, MD 



  What do we know about depression? And, what is going on at the level of the neuron? Traditional treatments have had impressive results in children with depression. But, why does efficacy of treatment vary in children? Host Dr. Peter Jensen welcomes Dr. Paul Croarkin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic, to answer these questions and discuss recent clinical trials, child and adolescent psychopharmacology and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and brain stimulation modalities. Download and listen today!

The Neurobiology of Childhood Depression

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  Host Dr. Peter Jensen welcomes Dr. Lynn M. Wegner, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and chief of the UNC Division of Pediatric Developmental-Behavioral Medicine at North Carolina Children's Hospital. Dr. Wegner shares her perspective on primary care clinicians finding, assessing and managing depression in their pediatric patients. Please click here to download the tools that may help you learn more about children's emotional and behavioral disorders.  Sponsored by 

Identifying and Managing Depression in Pediatric Primary Care

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  Host Dr. Peter Jensen welcomes Dr. Martin Stein, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego. Dr. Stein's academic interest has been the development of methods to incorporate concepts about child development and behavioral pediatrics into educational models, as well as the practice of primary care pediatrics. In this program, Dr. Stein will review the most commonly used stimulants in treating ADHD and how to best manage manage their side effects, specifically weight loss, weight gain, headaches, and sleep onset problems. Please email all questions and comments to info@reachmd.com.

Managing the Side Effects of ADHD Medications

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Dr. Laurence Greenhill, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, New York, NY, discusses the management and treatment of&nbsp;Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adolescent patients. Dr. Greenhill also reviews the research and studies that support the need to find the optimal dose in the differing age groups, the importance of&nbsp;behavioral modification, implementing protocols in clinician's offices and in patient's homes. Dr. Greenhill is the Past President of the American Academy of Child &amp; Adolescent Psychiatry. He is engaged in research on the safety and efficacy of medications to ameliorate psychiatric symptoms in youth, with specific projects in determining the long-term benefits of medication treatments on preschool children with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and conducting research on the efficacy of different types of treatment on depressed adolescents with suicidal behavior Download and listen today! &nbsp;

Maximizing the Benefits of Treatments for ADHD

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  Host Dr. Peter Jensen welcomes Dr. Christopher Wall, a pediatric and adolescent psychiatrist from the Mayo Clinic, to discuss pediatric mood disorders. Dr. Wall shares his research on the topic of pharmacogenomic utility in pediatric psychopharmacology, as well as his collaboration in the development of a pediatric bipolar disorder biobank that adds to the understanding of this complex mood illness. Download and listen in on this engaging conversation!

Causes of ADHD and Brain Development

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