Depressive disorders in childhood refers to the state of depression may suffer a child. The most common symptoms to discover if a child suffers from depression are, unlike adults symptoms (low mood and inability to be happy), discouragement, unmotivated fatigue, irritability, indecisiveness, negative feelings about yourself and feelings of inadequacy and failure. Childhood depression can be treated with both psychotherapeutic action, which should extend to the family environment of the child, or in severe cases with a psychotropic drug treatment with antidepressants (AD). Other recommended drugs, according to a ruling the expert, are the benzodiazepines, antipsychotics neuroleptics, carbamazepine, lithium salts or sympathomimetic.
Infantile depressive disorders
Depressive disorders in childhood refers to the state of depression may suffer a child. The most common symptoms to discover if a child suffers from depression are, unlike adults symptoms (low mood and inability to be happy), discouragement, unmotivated fatigue, irritability, indecisiveness, negative feelings about yourself and feelings of inadequacy and failure. Childhood depression can be treated with both psychotherapeutic action, which should extend to the family environment of the child, or in severe cases with a psychotropic drug treatment with antidepressants (AD). Other recommended drugs, according to a ruling the expert, are the benzodiazepines, antipsychotics neuroleptics, carbamazepine, lithium salts or sympathomimetic.
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Experts in Infantile depressive disorders
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Dra. Inmaculada Escamilla Canales
Child & Adolescent PsychiatryExpert in:
- ADHD
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- Depression
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Dra. Pilar Gamazo Garrán
Child & Adolescent PsychiatryExpert in:
- ADHD
- Conduct Disorder
- Anxiety
- School failure
- Infantile depressive disorders
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Dr. Arturo Delgado Serrano
Child & Adolescent PsychiatryExpert in:
- ADHD
- Infantile depressive disorders
- Conduct Disorder
- Autism
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Dra. Rosario Pérez Moreno
PsychiatryExpert in:
- Conduct Disorder
- Infantile depressive disorders
- ADHD
- Eating Disorders
- Anxiety
- Self-esteem disorder
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Dr. José Manuel Sánchez Moyano
PsychiatryExpert in:
- Addiction
- Depression
- Infantile depressive disorders
- Anxiety
- Psychology of adolescence
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Consulta Velázquez
C/ Príncipe de Vergara, 80 1ºB, MadridExpert in:
- Anxiety
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- Child Psychiatry
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Instituto de Neurociencias aplicadas a la educación (INAE)
Calle Félix Boix, 16, MadridExpert in:
- Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Child Psychiatry
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