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Advances in Clinical Psychopharmacology in Children and Young People

Clinical psychopharmacology is a developing field with relevant unmet needs and opportunities, such as understanding the best use of currently available medications, gaining insight into their specific effects in the developmental stage of life, and the testing of new medications. This Topic Collection of BMJ Mental Health will publish high quality empirical original studies or evidence synthesis papers on any relevant aspect of clinical psychopharmacology in children and/or young people.
keywords: Psychopharmacology; Children; Adolescents; Young People; randomised controlled trials; ADHD; Autistic Spectrum Disorder; anxiety disorders; obsessive compulsive disorder; major depressive disorder; antidepressants; SSRIs; SRNIs; TCAs; antipsychotics; efficacy; tolerability

Published Articles

Quality of melatonin use in children and adolescents: findings from a UK clinical audit (22 January 2024) Carol Paton, Paul Gringras, Alice Ruan, Ashley Liew, Olivia Rendora, Gaia Bove, Thomas R E Barnes Psychosis with use of amphetamine drugs, methylphenidate and atomoxetine in adolescent and adults (12 April 2024) Jacques Hamard, Vanessa Rousseau, Geneviève Durrieu, Philippe Garcia, Antoine Yrondi, Agnès Sommet, Alexis Revet, François Montastruc Exploring the minimal important difference in the treatment of paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (19 June 2024) Sem E Cohen, Damiaan A J P Denys, Taina Kristiina Mattila, Bram W C Storosum, Anthonius de Boer, Jasper Brian Zantvoord Effect of pharmacological treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on later psychiatric comorbidity: a population-based prospective long-term study (19 September, 2024) Ingvild Lyhmann, Tarjei Widding-Havneraas, Ingvar Bjelland, Simen Markussen, Felix Elwert, Ashmita Chaulagain, Arnstein Mykletun, Anne Halmøy

Guest Editors

Samuele Cortese University of Southampton ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-8075
Carmen Moreno Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-4846