ADHD remains one of the most common childhood diagnoses, affecting 11.4% of school-aged children. The CDC now estimates that ...

Welcome to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Our CAP fellowship family is eager to share information about our amazing team. There is much that we do - and so ...

The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behavior, but, according to new research, it also has a positive function: it makes learning easier. The ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

Community Consolidated School District 15 announced that Winston Campus Junior High School (WCJH) has been selected as one of 11 schools internationally - and the only school in Illinois - to receive ...

There are now clear signs that child and adolescent mental disorders are widely overdiagnosed, according to the authors of a large meta-study published earlier this year. The researchers, whose ...

Our fellows come from diverse interests and backgrounds. They were drawn to training in psychiatry and the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for many ...