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Child and adolescent psychiatry: inspiring and dynamic

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
C.G. Reichart, S. Roza, T.A.M.J. van Amelsvoort, D. Van West
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A hundred years of child psychiatry and changes in the governance of the youth mental health services in the Netherlands– back to the future

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
F. Boer

background Dutch child- and adolescent psychiatry (cap) is going through a complex phase now that the Youth Law has decreed that cap is to be placed under control of the municipality (i.e. local government) instead of the national government.
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Examining the developing brain in Dutch child and adolescent psychiatry

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
A. Popma

background Research on the developing brain in children and adolescents is delivering new insights into the underlying mechanisms of childhood psychiatric disorders.
aim To provide important information about the role that departments of Dutc...

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Genetics and psychiatric disorders: heritability and the search for genes

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
C.M. Middeldorp

background Much of the research is focused on the role that genetic factors play in the development of psychiatric disorders during childhood and adolescence.
aim To present an overview of the heritability of these disorders and to describe t...

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Forensic child, adolescent and transitional psychiatry

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
R. Vermeiren, O.F. Colins, A. Popma, E. Mulder

background Over the past 20 years there has been a marked increase in research relating to forensic child and adolescent psychiatry.
aim To review briefly and reflect on this research.
method First of all, we describe the characteristics ...

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The association of gestational duration and birth weight with child IQ: The Generation R Study

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
N.H. Grootendorst-van Mil, F.C. Verhulst, H. Tiemeier

background Several psychiatric disorders are considered to be neurodevelopmental in origin. Population-based research provides us with a unique opportunity to explore how prenatal factors influence neurodevelopment.
aim To analyse whether non-ve...

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Youth F-ACT: mapping the problems of a special population

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
D.M.W.R. van Houtem-Solberg, E.W.C.H. Chatrou, M.Q. Werrij, T.A.M.J. van Amelsvoort

background Youth f-act teams have been set up for the purpose of providing the care needed by young people suspected of having complex psychiatric problems.
aim To obtain insight into the problems of this population at the beginning and at th...

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Dimensional measures in autism spectrum disorders: do we know what we measure?

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
W. De La Marche, I. Noens, J. Steyaert

background In the last decades, researchers often used measures to quantify autism spectrum disorder (asd) traits, paralleling the tendency to describe psychiatric and developmental disorders more dimensionally. The broader autism phenotype (bap)...

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New impulses for tic research through international collaboration

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
T.J.C. Openneer, M. Abdulkadir, N.J. Forde, A. Dietrich*, P.J. Hoekstra*

background A section of the umcg Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department is currently focusing much of its research on tic disorders.
aim To provide an overview of the research projects on tic disorders being currently undertaken at our ce...

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Intellectual developmental disorder and child psychiatry

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
A. Vogels

background Intellectually disabled children have a high risk of developing psychiatric disorders. Until recently, this comorbidity was not recognised and remained undiagnosed and untreated.
aim To give an overview of the prevalence, etiology, cl...

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Trauma in children and adolescents: screening, diagnoses and treatment

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
E. Verlinden, R.J.L. Lindauer

background Young people often experience one or more traumatic events during their life. About 16% develops a post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). Whereas trauma treatments are effective, untreated ptsd has serious consequences for the psychoso...

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Neural activation and connectivity during response inhibition in adolescents with ADHD

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
D. van Rooij, J.K. Buitelaar

background We studied the neural correlates of response inhibition in a large cohort of adolescents with adhd, their unaffected siblings and controls. Response inhibition is a key executive function deficit of attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disor...

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Anorexia nervosa and adolescents

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
A.A. van Elburg, U.N. Danner

background Anorexia nervosa (an), which is the most serious of the eating disorders, starts earlier in life and often continues into adulthood.
aim To discuss the typical features of an in adolescents.
method We present an overview based on the...

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Psychosis: recognising the symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
J.A. Vorstman, E.J. Breetvelt, M.H. Hillegers, F.E. Scheepers

background Psychotic symptoms can occur during normal development, but they can also indicate the presence of or an increased risk of a psychotic disorder. By studying children who are at risk of developing a psychotic disorder we can obtain info...

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Reform of the Belgian mental health care system for children and adolescents

ISSUE 2015/12 themanummer Kinder en Jeugdpsychiatrie
9 december 2015
D. Van West, L. van Grootel

background The Belgian child and adolescent mental health care system is in the process of being substantially reformed and re-shaped.
aim To outline recent reforms in Belgian child and adolescent mental health care.
method To provide an ...

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