Trends in the prescribing of psychotropic medications to preschoolers.

By J. Zito, D. Safer, S. dosReis, J. Gardner, M. Boles, F. Lynch. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2000

949 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Rosemary Tannock
2. F. X. Castellanos
3. Tanya L. Eckert
4. Helen Link Egger
5. A. Angold
6. G. DuPaul
7. M. Poulou
8. Thomas Kratochwill

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Helen Link Egger
2. A. Angold

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. F. X. Castellanos
2. Rosemary Tannock
3. Helen Link Egger
4. A. Angold
5. G. DuPaul
6. M. Poulou
7. Trevor W. Robbins
8. Thomas Kratochwill

Citations in the corpus

• Biological processes in prevention and intervention: The promotion of self-regulation as a means of preventing school failure (2008, neutral): “Of further and perhaps more than coincidental interest to the phenomena of preschool expulsion and poor school readiness is the finding of a rapid and sizable increase in prescriptions of psychotropic medications to children under the age of 5 years (Zito et al., 2000).”
• Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. (2007, background): “This is especially pertinent given the recent public concerns about the increasing use of psychotropic agents in youths, including preschoolchildren (Zito et al., 2000).”
• Neuroscience of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the search for endophenotypes (2002, background): “, stimulant medications are increasingly being administered to children as young as two years of ag”
• Preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: impairments in behavioral, social, and school functioning. (2001, background): “Second, approximately 2% to 4% of preschool-age children are treated with psychotropic medication (Zito et al., 2000).”
• Common emotional and behavioral disorders in preschool children: presentation, nosology, and epidemiology. (2006, background): “, 2000) and is still growing (Barbaresi, 2003; Blackman, 1999; DeBar, Lynch, Powell, & Gale, 2003; Greenhill, 1998; Greenhill et al., 2003; Minde, 1998; Patel, Crismon, Hoagwood, & Johnsrud, 2005; Rappley et al., 2002; Stubbe & Martin, 2000; Waters, 1990; Zito et al., 2000).”