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While artificial intelligence (AI) may have utility in some medical practices such as reading X-rays, it is not going to be useful in diagnosing or treating conditions with nuances — notably, substance use disorders (SUDs) or mental illness — experts suggested in a panel on the topic at the June College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) annual conference in Montreal.

Researchers have concluded, unsurprisingly, that preterm infants randomized to enhanced developmental support had better developmental outcomes than infants whose caregivers did not receive the training. The researchers started with the very safe hypothesis that enhanced developmental support provided by caregivers — mothers, mainly — would improve the outcomes of infants born preterm to families with low income. The used an intervention which included training was provided by a multidisciplinary team with specialized knowledge of early intervention and infant development. The training began in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and continued after the infant was discharged.

This month, I read a commentary on “Eight ways to give yourself a pep talk when you feel stuck” (Turow, 2024), which was distributed in “Six Things Psychologists are Talking About” by the American Psychological Association (May 2024). Although the commentary was geared toward adults, for me it raised thoughts about how often we address “stuckness” among children in treatment.

If you've listened to the news recently, you may have been struck by a sense of impending doom. This is perhaps especially true for adolescents, who have faced a global pandemic and the constant threat of school shootings and gun violence. Persistent feelings of hopelessness are experienced at alarming rates by adolescents. Hopelessness (defined as the negative expectation toward oneself or the future) has been widely reported to play a major role in the development of depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and unsafe behaviors (Berardelli et al., 2022; Stoddard et al., 2011).

It's known that short sleep duration, prolonged, can have a detrimental impact on long-term mental health. One of the protections of sleep is against the development of psychosis.

This is a time of great confusion — for parents and policymakers, for sure. And even for clinicians, including pediatricians and child and adolescent psychologists and psychiatrists.

Partial hospitalization is a unique form of mental health care that provides more intensive care than traditional outpatient settings, but unlike inpatient hospitalization, allows patients the freedom to remain in their home and social environment outside of program hours, encouraging immediate practice of therapeutic skills in context and maintaining protective factors such as friendships and extracurricular activities.

A study released May 8 focused on the serious danger of psychosis related to frequent high-dose cannabis use. Written by veteran cannabis researcher Jasmin Hurd, M.D. and colleagues, the study, “The developmental trajectory to cannabis use disorder” (to be published in the May issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry), senior author Hurd, working with lead author Jess Hinckley, M.D, an adolescent psychiatrist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, looked at the many harms of cannabis use to young people who are still developing.