Although blood samples are easier to collect, brain samples provide more direct access to changes in the tissue most relevant to psychiatric disorders.
One of its most relevant functions, from a psychiatric and social point of view, is its impact on emotional states like anxiety and associated psychiatric diseases.
In the Netherlands, Boer and colleagues [ 16] selected psychometrically sound measures covering outcome variables most relevant for evaluating child psychiatric treatment.
We decided to focus on studies of the brain because this is arguably the most relevant tissue for a psychiatric disorder like BP.
Among the previous studies of the screening properties of the IPDS, comparisons with the study of Germans et al. [ 15] is the most relevant one since they also studied psychiatric outpatients and had a base rate of 50%.
Women who were using more than one psychotropic during pregnancy were most likely to have at least one relevant psychiatric diagnosis (73.9%).
Accordingly, each chapter of the present supplement introduces the most relevant guidelines for assessment and treatment of the various child and adolescent psychiatric disorders and provides some suggestions how the guideline recommendations may be successfully implemented into clinical care.
The discrepancy may result from various factors; however, the different methodology, inconsistencies in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, and small sample sizes seem to be the most relevant.
Psychiatric disorders were considered the most common reason for suicidal behaviour and psychotherapy the most relevant treatment.
