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MENTAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS PROGRAMME
Josefina Castro Fornieles (G04) Coordinator
The Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents Programme was created in 2010 and consists of five
CIBERSAM groups . The main objective of the programme is to study mental disorders that start during childhood and adolescence .
In 2014 our programme conducted the following work in each of its vertical lines:
LINE 1: STUDY OF RISK FACTORS, GENETICS, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, NEUROIMAGING, TREATMENT, PROGRESSION AND PHYSICAL AND PHYSICAL INVOLVEMENT OF PSYCHOTIC AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
• Work has been continued in the already initiated studies on risk factors, genetics, clinical characteristics, neuroimaging, treatment and progression of psychotic and emotional disorders in children and adolescents .
• Work has been continued in collaborative studies in samples of children and adolescents at a high risk for psychosis (clinical and genetic), increasing follow-up time .
• Work has been initiated in study of the physical health consequences of psychotic disorders . • Work has been initiated in the study of factors and markers for prognosis of disease progression .
LINE 2: STUDY OF RISK FACTORS, GENETICS, CHARACTERISTICS CLINICAL, NEUROIMAGING, TREATMENT AND PROGRESSION OF THE EATING DISORDERS.
• Work has been continued in earlier studies on the progression of eating disorders, conducting longitudinal studies .
• Work has been continued in the study of the efficacy of various pharmacological and psychological treatments in the treatment of eating disorders .
LINE 3: STUDY OF GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS AND NEUROIMAGING IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDERS AND OTHER ANXIETY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADO- LESCENTS.
• Work has been continued in studies on common and differential characteristics between eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder .
• Several studies were additionally initiated in 2014 on the genetic characteristics of children and adolescents who have developed these disorders, relating them to the response to some treatments pharmacological .
LINE 4: STUDY OF THE GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS, NEUROIMAGING, TREATMENT AND PROGRESSION OF AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
• Throughout this year work has been continued in studies that began in previous years on the clinical, cognitive and of neuroimaging characteristics of children diagnosed with an autistic space disorder .
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