Dr. Neha Navsaria discusses what childhood anxiety is, when to be concerned, and more.
What Mental Health Specialists Want Parents to Know About Anxiety (Links to an external site)
Category: In the News
Vaccines don’t cause autism. What does? (Links to an external site)
Dr. Gregory Cejas weighs in the discussion of scientists saying most brain changes that contribute to autistic traits occur before birth.
Relation Between Daily Mood and Sleep in Preschool Children Highlights Importance of End-of-Day Mood (Links to an external site)
Drs. Caroline Hoyniak, Joan Luby and Diana Whalen explore the day-to-day impact of poor sleep on affect in early childhood
TikTok’s Fixation on Dissociative Identity Disorder: Chronicle of a Trauma Foretold (Links to an external site)
Dr. Andrea Giedinghagen discusses the intersection of teens, mental health and technology.
Collateral Damage: Election stress hurts everyone, including our kids (Links to an external site)
Dr. Eric Spiegel discusses election stress on children and how to talk to them about world issues and navigating differing opinions.
Living Well: Cellphones and Social Media (Links to an external site)
Dr. Andrea Giedinghagen on KMOV Channel 4 discussing Cellphones and Social Media impact on teens.
10 years after his teen daughter died by suicide, West County father is honoring her by helping other children (Links to an external site)
Dr. Michael Wenzinger weighs in on juveniles with suicide attempts.
Five factors to ensure an infant thrives (Links to an external site)
New study from Joan Luby and Deanna Barch’s labs at WashU make case that ‘thrive factors’ in early development should be a public health priority
Preschoolers with depression at greater risk of suicide during adolescence (Links to an external site)
Findings by Joan Luby, Deanna Barch and Laura Hennefield emphasize need for early mental health screenings, interventions
Beating the Baby Blues: What to Look for in New Moms (Links to an external site)
A year after CVPA school shooting, counselors offer advice on how to talk to children about it (Links to an external site)
Neha Navsaria, PhD discusses how a lot of times, we avoid having difficult conversations because we’re struggling to find the right thing to say.
Orchard Farm School District thinking ‘inside the box’ when it comes to intruder alert notifications (Links to an external site)
With the number of school shootings, recently, many children are bound to be wondering when their number is going to come up. Dr. Neha Navsaria discusses how it is important to have an open-ended conversation with your child at the beginning of the year.
5 Things Therapists Say Parents Are Confessing To This Time Of Year (Links to an external site)
Back-to-school season is full of anticipation for both kids and parents. Dr. Neha Navsaria discusses ways to talk with children about their daily school experiences.
Local doctor seeing cases of teens consuming marijuana laced with fentanyl (Links to an external site)
Dr. Michael Wenzinger, a staff psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine, has seen a few cases where teenagers have inadvertently consumed the combination of marijuana and fentanyl.
Why people may be forgetting their COVID pandemic memories (Links to an external site)
Jennifer Holzhauer, MSW, LCSW weighs in: As we move into a new phase where COVID-19 is more endemic, many of these memories will fade with the passage of time and the constraints of how much our brain can hold, but experts say it’s more than that.
Rogers, Smyser awarded MERIT grant for research on preterm babies (Links to an external site)
Cynthia Rogers, MD and co-investigator Christopher Smyser, MD, have received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their research focused on preterm babies’ brains as the children age.
Psychological trauma is the next crisis for coronavirus health workers (Links to an external site)
Health care workers are risking their own health, witnessing higher rates of death and experiencing breakdowns of protocol and support.
Early signs of anxiety, depression may be evident in newborns (Links to an external site)
Brain scans may indicate clues to later problems.
Unraveling autism (Links to an external site)
A multifaceted approach aims to detect, treat and even reverse the disorder.
Depression is rising among teenagers, but diagnosis and treatment have a ways to go to catch up (Links to an external site)
Anne Glowinski, MD discusses depression and the rise among teenagers, particularly in girls.
Doctors being trained to fill shortage of child psychiatrists (Links to an external site)
Mini Tandon, DO and Eric Wittrock, DO discuss the nationwide shortage of child psychiatrists.
Table of experts: Quality behavioral health for the sake of our region: The time is now (Links to an external site)
Dr. John Constantino, along with four other experts, discuss quality behavioral health for Eastern Missouri.
News 4 partners with Autism Speaks for Saturday walk (Links to an external site)
Dr. John Constantino featured on News channel 4 to highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.
Preparing teenagers for college (Links to an external site)
Paul Glaser, MD, PhD, recommends that parents ask their college-bound children how they feel about the approaching changes in their lives.
Advice for parents on teaching kids to work as a team (Links to an external site)
Dehra Harris explains how parents can help their children shift perspectives to better understand teammates and losing.
Advocating that parents teach their daughters to be brave rather than perfect (Links to an external site)
Dehra Glueck says the main difference is that brave daughters are raised to take risks rather than trying to be perfect. She also said it is important to start a conversation with your daughter about why perfect doesn’t work – mostly because if you are trying to be perfect you will never be at your learning […]
The crisis within: How toxic stress and trauma endanger our children (Links to an external site)
Joan Luby and Cynthia Rogers share their research on brain development, depression and poverty in a special report examining toxic stress in St. Louis youth.
Addressing racial disparity in autism treatment (Links to an external site)
Dr. John N. Constantino, MD, shares his perspective in this op-ed.
Weak brain connections may link premature birth and later disorders (Links to an external site)
A study led by Cynthia Rogers comparing MRI scans of the brains of 58 full-term babies with those of 76 babies born at least 10 weeks early found that preterm infants indeed have abnormal structural brain connections.
Why girls are diagnosed with autism less often than boys? (Links to an external site)
Dr. Natasha Marrus discusses the latest developments in the field of autism research
How can parents talk to their kids about Ferguson? (Links to an external site)
Young children may be frightened by the images they see on the news, Cynthia Rogers, MD, has observed. It’s important to let them share these feelings, and also to assure them that they are safe.