Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, January 2005

Each issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America focuses on a single topic in child and adolescent psychiatry and is presented under the direction of an experienced guest editor. The current (January 05) volume, entitled Emerging Interventions presents brain-based interventions using the bioelectric domain, including EEG biofeedback or neurofeedback, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, and vagal nerve stimulation. Each chapter presents a thorough review of the published research and clinical literature in the area, integrated with case discussions when indicated.

The January 2005 issue was edited by Dr. Laurence Hirshberg, NeuroDevelopment Center Director, along with two child psychiatry colleagues, Jean Frazier, MD and Sufen Chiu, Md, PhD. The issue includes an article on quantitative EEG in neuropsychiatry, articles on EEG biofeedback for ADHD, anxiety, affective disorders, substance abuse, reading disability and traumatic brain injury, and epilepsy, as well as a chapter presenting a program of systematic fundamental validation research conducted by a top neuroscience team in Great Britain.The volume also includes a chapter on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, and vagal nerve stimulation, as well as an overview chapter written by the volume editors addressing the evidence base for these emerging interventions and discussing their role in clinical pratcice.