Child Psychiatry
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Judith Rapoport, MD
<H3>Overview</H3>
<P>The Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, is a clinical
research branch that focuses on the diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of childhood
onset psychiatric disorders. Our overarching objective is to explore biological
aspects of severe child psychiatric disorders. There are several collaborations
around questions requiring laboratory investigations. For example, the Section
on Behavioral Pediatric, has become familiar with measures of immunological functions
necessary for their close collaboration with immunology laboratories. We acquire
and measure PET 015 and anatomic brain images. Our studies bring us into increasing
collaboration with systems neuroscience laboratories both in the NIH campus and
elsewhere.</P>
<P>Research has focused for sometime on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) and on Childhood Onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The latter
studies have led to a comprehensive investigation of Sydenham''s
Chorea as a medical model for OCD. Since 1990, however, a study was initiated
on Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, a rare condition which usually has its initial
presentation as a behavioral and/or developmental disorder. Childhood Onset Schizophrenia
may represent an unusually severe and homogeneous subgroup of the disorder that
will inform research on the later onset schizophrenia.</P>
<H3>Structure of the Clinical Training Program</H3>
<P>The Child Psychiatry Branch has available a 2-6 year research fellowship in
clinical child psychiatry open to physicians who have at least one year of training
in child psychiatry (additional child psychiatric, pediatric, pediatric neurology
or basic science training is welcome). The program deals with studies on attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder, childhood onset schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive
disorder. The fellow will share the role of primary physician in charge of a
4-bed inpatient unit for severely disturbed children. We are currently conducting
open and double-blind trails of the atypical neuroleptic olanzapine in a multidisciplinary
setting. Training in MRI brain imaging and clinical genetics are also part of
this fellowship. The next fellowship opening is for July 1998.</P>
<H3>Program Faculty and Research Interests</H3>
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<LI><B>Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.</B> Dr. Rapoport is the Chief of the Child Psychiatry
Branch. She is known for her work in pediatric
psychopharmacology, and studies on hyperactive, obsessive compulsive and schizophrenic
children.
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<LI><B>F. Xavier Castellanos, M.D.</B> Dr. Castallanos is a pediatrician and
child psychiatrist. His work is on brain imaging, drug response, and genetics
of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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<LI><B>Jay N. Giedd, M.D.</B> Coordinates the structural brain imaging studies
in normal and psychiatrically impaired children. A longitudinal study of normal
brain development is in progress and this is closely coordinated with studies
of brain development in schizophrenic and hyperactive children, as well as, children
with post infectious obsessive compulsive disorder.
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<LI>Collaborative studies are onging with senior research scientists at Harvard
University, the University of Iowa, the Rockefeller University and elsewhere.
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<H3>Application Information</H3>
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</LI>Physicians who have completed an accredited Psychiatry residency
>program who are BC/BE in child psychiatry are encouraged to apply. Pediatricians and Pediatric Neurologists may also apply.
<P>For further information, the applicants should contact:</P>
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Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.<BR>
Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch<BR>
National Institute of Mental Health<BR>
National Institutes of Health<BR>
Building 10, Room 6N240<BR>
10 Center Drive, MSC 1600<BR>
Bethesda, Maryland 20982-1600<BR>
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FAX: (301) 402-0296<BR>
e-Mail: rapo...@helix.nih.gov
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<H3>Electronic Application</H3>
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