by Yitzhak Shnaps, M. D. | Feb 16, 2010 | Bipolar Disorder, Child Psych
Concerned parents often ask me, “Does my child have bipolar disorder?” Over the past 11 years, since the publication of the first edition of The Bipolar Child in 1999, this question has become more and more prevalent. Parents who struggle with this...
by Yitzhak Shnaps, M. D. | Feb 2, 2010 | Antidepressants, Medication
Recently, patients have been asking me about reports floating around the Internet that question the effectiveness of antidepressants. The source of most of these reports is a recently published study entitled “Antidepressant drug effects and depression severity:...
by Yitzhak Shnaps, M. D. | Jan 25, 2010 | Autism
In an article published in December 2009 in the Neuroscientist titled “The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Integration in Autism,” Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom, a researcher from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel offers a novel conceptual framework of known...