B-70Executive Dysfunction and Severe Behavioral Dysregulation in a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Setting

Behavioral management leads to reduction in aggression in a child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit.

OBJECTIVE Aggression is common in children and adolescents admitted to psychiatric inpatient units. Few interventions for reducing aggressive behaviors have been identified. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a milieu-based behavioral management program on the frequency of aggressive behaviors in a child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit. METHOD The behavioral management pro...

The Role of Executive Functioning in Significant Behavioral Dysregulation Among Children in an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Under Recognition of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in a Child Inpatient Psychiatric Setting

on the neurocognitive deficits of prenatally exposed individuals, there is comparatively little research on their psychiatric functioning. However, O’Connor and associates have reported precursors to psychiatric disorders including internaliz ing (depression , anxiety ) and externalizing (hyperactivity, poor impulse control) behaviors as well as insecure attachment relations. Other investigator...

Neuregulin-2 Ablation Results in Dopamine Dysregulation and Severe Behavioral Phenotypes Relevant to Psychiatric Disorders

Numerous genetic and functional studies implicate variants of Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) and its neuronal receptor ErbB4 in schizophrenia and many of its endophenotypes. Although the neurophysiological and behavioral phenotypes of NRG1 mutant mice have been investigated extensively, practically nothing is known about the function of NRG2, the closest NRG1 homolog. We found that NRG2 expression in the ...

MEDICAL CLEARANCE OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS Physical Illness in Psychiatric Patients in a Psychiatric Inpatient Setting

increasing role in the provision of acute psychiatric care in recent years.1 Major factors accounting for this trend are the ongoing deinstitutionalization of mentally ill patients and the nationwide epidemic of substance abuse.1 Psychiatric patients may present to the ED with various disorders that may include functional or toxic/metabolic psychosis, the behavioral side effects of medications,...