Healio (10/23, Tedesco) reported, “Despite receiving stable doses of stimulant medications, children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD] displayed inadequate symptom control and functional impairment related to the condition during their early morning routine before school,” researchers found after surveying 201 primary care givers of school-aged youngsters with AD/HD. The survey’s results were presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition.

Related Links:

— “School-aged children show signs of ADHD in early morning despite treatment,” Alaina Tedesco, Healio, October 23, 2016.

HCP Live (10/21, Lutz) reported, “Childhood symptoms of” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) may “persist into adulthood in as many as 60% of patients,” researchers found. The findings of the nearly 600-patient study were published online Sept. 19 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Related Links:

— “Defining ADHD Symptoms into Adulthood,” Rachel Lutz, HCP Live, October 21, 2016.

On its front page, the New York Times (10/19, A1, Rosenberg, Southall, Subscription Publication) reports on the shooting Tuesday by a New York City police officer of 66-year-old Deborah Danner, a Bronx woman with schizophrenia, a “confrontation…condemned in swift and striking terms by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill.”

Both de Blasio and O’Neill “said the officer had failed to follow the Police Department’s protocol for dealing with an emotionally disturbed person.” The mayor faulted the officer for not waiting for “more specialized officers from the department’s elite Emergency Service Unit to arrive.” De Blasio “also noted that Sergeant Barry was equipped with a stun gun that he could have used to try to subdue Ms. Danner.”

Even though New York City has started “providing its rank-and-file officers with more advanced training on dealing with people with mental illness,” only “about 4,400 of the” NYPD’s “roughly 36,000 officers” have received Crisis Intervention Training.

Related Links:

— “In Quick Response, de Blasio Calls Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman ‘Unacceptable’,” ELI ROSENBERG and ASHLEY SOUTHALL, New York Times, October 19, 2016.

Healio (10/20) reports that recently, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) “announced it will provide $21 million in funding over five years for a study on the development of mental disorders that develop following trauma.” In a press release, NIMH director Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, said, “In the relatively short term, this project is expected to deliver tools for clinicians to make informed decisions about risk and follow-up care soon after trauma.”

Additionally, the “research resource to be created will fuel a new generation of analyses on the underlying causes of disorders, identify new intervention targets, and in turn give rise to mechanism-informed treatments based on individual needs.”

Related Links:

— “NIMH study will explore trauma-related mental illness,” Healio, October 20, 2016.

The Huffington Post (10/18, Almendrala) reports that researchers are developing a test to “predict how effective antidepressants will be.” Although “the test is still in early stages, a recent study…found that it was able to predict whether or not an antidepressant would restore a person’s symptoms to healthy levels with 81 percent accuracy.” The findings of the 102-patient study were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Related Links:

— “Will Antidepressants Work For You? There Will Soon Be A Test For That,” Anna Almendrala, The Huffington Post, October 18, 2016.