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Investigators found that many common psychiatric disorders are deeply connected on a genetic level, sharing specific genetic risk factors, underscoring the need to recognize shared dimensions of brain
Natalia: Dancing Queen
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Diagnosed with epilepsy, several seizure disorders and cerebral palsy, Natalia and her family don't let her challenges slow her down.
Clayton Gets Back Up
November 30, 2015
On April 19 the Cha family would experience the unimaginable. “After the accident, Clayton couldn’t walk, talk or do much,” says Allis, Clayton’s father. Claty, as his family likes to call him, was 2
Mental Health Disparities in Transgender Youth Populations
April 4, 2016
In a new editorial published in JAMA Pediatrics, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, medical director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles discusses
Caiden Moran’s Chance to Hear
October 12, 2016
When Caiden Moran was born, he failed the newborn hearing screening, a standard test given to all babies before they leave the hospital. So his parents brought him back for a recheck. And he failed
Children With Behavioral Disorders Most Frequently Return to the Emergency Room for Mental Health Care
January 11, 2023
Parents have few alternatives for children in crisis when mental health care is lacking.
The Pediatrician’s Pediatrician
March 30, 2018
Robert Adler, MD, MSEd, doesn’t remember a time when he didn’t want to be a pediatrician: “It never gets boring, because every family is different."
Keep on Dancing
September 8, 2016
Despite all the surgeries, despite the grim prognoses—despite the odds, really—8-year-old Carmella “Ella” Cruz just keeps dancing. It’s a dance all her own, more of a life-affirming wiggle than a full
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