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Psychotropic Medications in Autism: Practical Considerations for Parents
Medications are widely prescribed in children with autism spectrum disorders. Most commonly these medications are used to decrease symptoms that fall under three main clusters: irritability, ADHD-like symptoms, and repetitive behaviors. In this guide we introduce basic approaches to medications in children with autism and review the scientific evidence in each symptom cluster.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.
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Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Attention Deficits in Children: A Controlled Treatment Trial with Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate (Vyvanse)
Attention deficits are among the most common and persistent impairments resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study was the first to examine the effects of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX, Vyvanse) in treating TBI-related attention deficits in children. It was an extension of a previous controlled trial with adults. This was a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-titration, crossover trial. In addition to weekly safety monitoring, there were assessments on a broad range of neuropsychological and behavioral measures at baseline, 6-weeks, and 12-weeks. A total of 20 carefully selected children were enrolled, ranging from 10 to 16 years of age. The sample consisted of cases with mainly mild TBI (based on the known details regarding their injuries), but they had persisting attention deficits and other post-concussion symptoms lasting from 2 to 29 months by the time of enrollment. A total of 16 children completed the trial. One of the children withdrew due to a mild anxiety reaction while on LDX. There were no other adverse effects. Positive treatment results were found on both formal testing of sustained attention and in terms of parent ratings of attention, emotional status, behavioral controls, and various aspects of executive functioning. The findings also served to highlight broader insights into the nature of attention deficits and their treatment in children with TBI.
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Into the Digital Gardens: On the Cyberpastoral Poetics of Ander Monson and Dennis Hinrichsen
This thesis aims to address the development of a ‘cyberpastoral’ poetic genre situated within the contemporary technological world, and how this genre carries and furthers the scope of the traditional pastoral genre to invite poets into a digital landscape where they may confront the presence of technology within their everyday lives to address and make familiar the relationship that exists between humans and technology. In close readings of two poems which emphasize the pervasive presence of technology, Ander Monson’s “For Orts” and Dennis Hinrichsen’s “[Loop Narcissus] [w/ and iPhone & the Euclidean Plane],” I examine how these poets utilize and operate within a cyberpastoral poetic genre to emphasize the human and technological/online relationship; act as a landscape of escape and reflection; and encourage further critical investigations into our human and digital existences.
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Straight on Through: the Current State of Child Tracks in Psychiatry Residency
Objective
The authors explore the advantages and disadvantages of 5-year integrated child and adolescent psychiatry tracks from the perspective of program directors.
Methods
The authors surveyed via email the program directors of the 134 child and adolescent psychiatry training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the USA on their experiences with and perceptions of a formal child track.
Results
The authors received 79 responses (60% response rate), including 13 (16%) with a child track, an increase from 7 programs in a survey completed 13 years ago. Of programs with a child track, a majority were created within the last 5 years. Out of an average postgraduate year 1 class size of nine, the most common child track size was two positions per year. Benefits cited for child tracks included improved recruitment, longitudinal retention, potential flexibility, scholarly productivity, and clinical benefits such as the foundation of a developmental perspective and improved integration of pediatrics and mental health. Of programs that do not have a track, more than half were strongly or very strongly considering one.
Conclusions
Child tracks have potential benefits for individual trainees, general psychiatry residency programs, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowships. Additionally, long-term benefits to child mental health workforce recruitment and expansion are likely. The number of programs offering a child track has risen significantly over the last decade since the field was last surveyed, and this trend is likely to continue over the next decade.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Participation in the National Resident Matching Program Match: Trends and Implications for Recruitment
Objective
Recruitment is one of the most important missions for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Caucus of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Association of Directors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A review of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match data is needed to inform current and future practices.
Methods
The NRMP, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and Association of American Medical College databases were queried from 1996 to 2021.
Results
The NRMP data show that the number of programs participating in the Match has increased from 87 in 1996 to 106 in 2021 and that the percentage of programs that fill their positions in the Match is increasing and has increased from 41% in 1996 to 67% in 2021. However, each year, a percentage of programs do not fill their positions offered in the Match. The numbers indicate a surplus of positions for the number of applicants that appears to be increasing, and there are currently 49 more positions than applicants.
Conclusions
Trends in the CAP Match are encouraging, and importantly, more programs and applicants are using the Match. One concerning trend is the surplus of positions while there is a great need for child psychiatrists. More research is needed on the incentives for programs and applicants to participate in the Match and how to increase interest in child and adolescent psychiatry.
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Borges against Perón: A Contextual Approach to “El fin”
3 The fluctuations between self and non-self varied in intensity according to circumstances, both personal and political, but they help to define three broad periods in his career: in his youth he believed passionately in the need to capture the self fully in his writing; in middle age, his sense of the nullity of personal identity tended to predominate; and in old age he returned to a more positive, though much attenuated, belief in selfhood, and sought to recover a creative role for the author.4 It is the work of the middle period, especially Ficciones, El Aleph and Otras inquisiciones, that has overwhelmingly attracted the attention of critics, but this period, I believe, needs to be related to the earlier and later periods in order to arrive at a fuller and more finely-differentiated understanding of Borges's aims and achievements. The contextualization of his work is an essential element in this process, and in this essay I hope to demonstrate that a contextual approach can generate new perspectives and new readings without detracting from the philosophical and theoretical dimensions of his writing.5 Borges himself contributed to the general blurring of context because of his habit of adding stories, essays and poems to later editions of already published collections.
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