Depression
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Antidepressants for children and teenagers: what works?
Prescriptions for teenagers are rising. Research has found that the number of 12 to 17 year olds prescribed antidepressants more than doubled between 2005 and 2017. More recent information suggests that prescriptions have continued to increase, especially during the pandemic.
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Machine Learning: Predicting Early Outcomes of Antidepressants in Children
In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Paul Croarkin and Dr. Arjun Athreya to discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Evidence for machine learning guided early prediction of acute outcomes in the treatment of depressed children and adolescents with antidepressants’.
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Transmission of Experiences of Racism, Anxiety, and Depression in Families
In this podcast, we are joined by student researchers Hannah Abdalla, Malaika Okundi, and Carl Simela to discuss the TRADE project, which stands for Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety, and Depression in families.
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Examining academic self-concept as a mediator of the relationship between anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – “The aim of this longitudinal study was to analyze the mediating role of different areas of self-concept in the relationship between the early development of anxiety symptoms and the later appearance of depressive symptoms”. Alexandra Morales (pic) et al.
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CARIBOU-1: A pilot controlled trial of an Integrated Care Pathway for the treatment of depression in adolescents
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “To co-ordinate a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of guideline recommendations using a measurement-based care framework, our group previously developed a care pathway for the treatment of depression in adolescents.” Darren B. Courtney et al.
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Destigmatizing Perceptions About Black Adolescent Depression
For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrés Martin, Dr. Jose Paez, and Dr. Doron Amsalem to discuss their co-authored paper ‘Destigmatizing Perceptions About Black Adolescent Depression, Randomized Control Trial of Brief Social Contact-based Video Interventions’, recently published in the JCPP.
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A digest of the published work of Michael Rutter
A digest of the published work of Michael Rutter by Jim Stevenson, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Southampton. Revised December 2021
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COVID & the impact on Mental Health of School Closures – CAMHS around the Campfire recording
For this session we welcomed Dr. Karen Mansfield, a postdoctoral research scientist from the School Mental Health Project, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP Advances paper ‘‘Covid-19 partial school closures and mental health problems: a cross sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to determine those most at risk’’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Combined polygenic risk scores, & predicting psychopathology
For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Alex Neumann and Professor Henning Tiemeier to discuss the JCPP paper ‘Combined polygenic risk scores of different psychiatric traits predict general and specific psychopathology in childhood’.
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Reward- and threat-related neural function associated with depression
The focus of this podcast is on the recently published JCPP paper ‘Reward- and threat-related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil’, co-authored by Dr. Johnna Swartz.
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