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Insights from longitudinal research in child & adolescent mental health
Professor Barbara Maughan delivered this Keynote lecture ‘Insights from longitudinal research in child & adolescent mental health’ on Friday 22 October 2021 at the ACAMH Awards. Professor Maughan was the recipient of ACAMH’s President’s Medal at the virtual awards.
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The Bridge
The Bridge, ACAMH’s Magazine, shares the latest clinically relevant child and adolescent mental health research, best practice, and policy. We publish accessible, interesting, and useful articles to inform our readers’ work with young people, bridging the gap between expert evidence and current practice. Do please share with your networks and get involved by following us […]
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ACAMH Awards 2021 Nominees Announced
See who made the nominees list for the 2021 ACAMH Awards.
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter retires after 55 years at the IoPPN
This article is reproduced with the permission of King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).
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Dr. Marinos Kyriakopoulos
Dr. Marinos Kyriakopoulos is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Visiting Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, KCL, and Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is Joint Training Programme Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Maudsley Scheme. Dr. Kyriakopoulos is an Associate Editor of CAMH, focusing on Clinical Research Updates.
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Other organisations
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DOI for ACAMH
From April 2021 all content published on the ACAMH website will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier, or a DOI.
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March 2021
This issue includes an excellent article on mood disorders in autistic young people, written by experts Dr Emily Jackson, Dr Eleanor Smith, and Dr Aditya Sharma. The authors thoughtfully discuss the overlap between these conditions, challenges in identifying their co-occurrence, and adaptations needed for interventions.
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EEG data might help identify children at risk for social anxiety
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive method to monitor the electrical activity of the brain. There are five main broad frequency bands in the EEG power spectrum: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta. Data suggest that EEG-derived delta–beta coupling — indicating related activity in the delta and beta frequency bands — might serve as a marker of emotion regulation.
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Does early androgen exposure contribute to autistic traits?
Researchers in Hong Kong and Cambridge have explored the influence of early androgen exposure on autistic traits during childhood.
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