Detecting a child’s mental disorder can be difficult because many of the behaviors can also occur as part of normal development. As a result, some parents are hesitant to seek help. To help you ...

Child psychiatry researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that bipolar disorder — formerly called manic-depressive illness — can occur in children as young as 7 ...

For the past two years, Cody and Jordan Medeiros have been in a race against time to save their son. Lincoln Medeiros, 4, is ...

Psychologists typically do not diagnose children with personality disorders. This is because their personality is still developing and can change quickly as they grow. However, a child may show early ...

A University of Sydney-led study published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry has found 42% of Australian ...

Immune system disorders in children include primary (inherited) and secondary (acquired) immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases, atopic diseases, and immune-mediated inflammatory disorders. Share on ...

About 9% of U.S. residents will develop an eating disorder during their lifetimes, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Eating disorders most often are ...

What Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)? Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a behavior disorder in which a child displays a pattern of an angry or cranky mood, defiant or combative behavior, ...

But even when children with sleeping disorders are brought to specialists, they still sometimes leave undiagnosed. Some sleep specialists are not trained to recognize the divergent symptoms between ...

Rumination disorder (also called merycism) is an eating disorder in which a person -- usually an infant or young child -- brings back up and re-chews partially digested food that has already been ...

Cincinnati Children’s celebrated Nov. 17 the opening of a new state-of-art facility for its Applied Gene and Cell Therapy Center, which will enable the health system to increase clinical trials of ...