Judith L. Rapoport M.D. is Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and did her clinical and research training at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC, and the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. Her research has focused on diagnosis in child psychiatry, ADHD, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Over the past decade, her group has been studying the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of childhood onset schizophrenia, as well as normal and abnormal brain development in childhood and adolescence. She is an author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

In this lecture, Dr. Rapoport gives a selective review of controversies surrounding the use of medications in child and adolescent psychiatry and their current status.