From the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine: In the 1960s an anti-war poster read, "War is not healthy for children or other living things." A study in the Nov. issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine confirmed this sentiment with a study of 169 families: "Children age 3 and older who had a deployed parent had significantly higher scores on measures of externalizing and overall behavior problems than children of the same age without a deployed parent." Parents of more than 2 million youngsters have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
From Archives of General Psychiatry: "Psychotic symptoms after cannabis use should be taken extremely seriously," conclude Danish researchers investigating family predispositions to schizophrenia. They asked if psychosis resulting from marijuana is a different clinical entity or the first sign of schizophrenia. Their research was based on more than 2.3 million people born between 1955 and 1990 who are listed in the Danish Civil Registration System. In Denmark psychiatric treatment is free and there are no private hospitals and their registration system permits comprehensive research.
From the on-line edition of the New England Journal of Medicine: An NIMH-funded study of children (ages 7 to 17) with anxiety disorders found that a combination of medication with a specific type of therapy worked best after 12 weeks to help children with anxiety disorders. The three interventions were cognitive bevhavioral therapy, the antidepressant drug sertraline (Zoloft), and a placebo. Zoloft is one of two FDA-approved drugs for PTSD.
