It should be considered in any child presenting with unexplained right heart failure without an identifiable cause, particularly if central sleep apnea is present, because early initiation of ventilatory support can prevent cardiac and neurologic sequelae [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Falling

  Data were collected cross-sectionally in Grades 5 through 8, as well as longitudinally in the fall and spring of an academic year. [citeseerx.ist.psu.edu]

  Edit Storyline A teenager from an abusive household falls in love with a free-spirited runaway that leads him into the fast-lane lifestyle of drugs and addiction which threatens to destroy him. [imdb.com]

  Young adolescents (aged 10-14) are often invisible in discourse and data, falling between policies and programmes focused on “children” and on “youth.” Adolescence is a phase separate from both early childhood and adulthood. [unicef.org]

  The thickened lining falls off and forms menstrual blood flow, which passes out of the body through the vagina. In between the menstrual periods, there may be a clear or whitish vaginal discharge. This is normal. [web.archive.org]

• Disability

  OBJECTIVE: In the UK, families of disabled children are entitled to receive disability benefits to help meet costs associated with caring for their child. Evidence of actual costs incurred is scant, especially for mental health disability. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Hogan, The Educational Attainment Process Among Adolescents with Disabilities And Children of Parents with Disabilities, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 56, 4, (363), (2009). [doi.org]

• Precocious Puberty

  Precocious puberty It is accepted that the normal age for a girl to begin to develop the first signs of puberty is 10 and above. Boys develop slightly later, generally at eleven-and-a-half. [news.bbc.co.uk]

  KidsHealth: "Everything You Wanted to Know About Puberty," "Your Child’s Changing Voice," "Causes of Precocious Puberty," "All About Menstruation," "Breasts and Bras," "When Does Height Happen?" Medscape: "Precocious Puberty." 4Parents, U.S. [webmd.com]

  Puberty American Academy of Family Physicians Puberty: What to Expect When Your Child Goes through Puberty Nemours Foundation Precocious Puberty | Delayed Puberty | Reading Most embryology textbooks (by definition) do not cover postnatal developmenty [web.archive.org]

  Precocious puberty: can be pathological in nature (caused by tumors in central nervous system, encephalitis, or head trauma) or idiosyncratic. Precocious puberty has been recorded since classical times. [mum.org]

• Fishing

  I ordered fish and was given a steak, which I accepted and was quite tasty, but indicated some lackadaisical attitude in performance standards. [tripadvisor.com]

  Fish, Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 1, (465), (2016). André P. [doi.org]

• Epilepsy

  Abstract A developmentally normal adolescent boy with a history of childhood absence epilepsy presented with recurrence of pyknolepsy after a seven-year period of remission. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Ana Filipa Lopes, Mário Rodrigues Simões, José Paulo Monteiro, Maria José Fonseca, Cristina Martins, Lurdes Ventosa, Laura Lourenço and Conceição Robalo, Intellectual functioning in children with epilepsy: Frontal lobe epilepsy, childhood absence epilepsy [doi.org]

  About 3% of the participants had chronic diseases such as asthma, epilepsy, congenital heart disease, and chronic pyelonephritis. [adc.bmj.com]

• Deepening of Voice

  Secondary Sexual Characteristics Also secondary sexual characteristics—the nonreproductive traits such as breast and hips ingirls and facial hair and deepening of voice in boysdevelop. Pubic hair and hair in armpit grow in both sexes. 6 7. [slideshare.net]

• Diarrhea

  […] and Drug Administration (FDA) include: citalopram (Celexa) escitalopram (Lexapro) fluoxetine (Prozac) fluvoxamine (Luvox) paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva) sertraline (Zoloft) The most common side effects reported with SSRIs include: sexual problems nausea diarrhea [healthline.com]

• Visual Impairment

  Heppe, Sabina Kef and Carlo Schuengel, Testing the effectiveness of a mentoring intervention to improve social participation of adolescents with visual impairments: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Trials, 16, 1, (2015). Jonathon J. [doi.org]

• Acne Vulgaris

  KEYWORDS: Propionibacterium acnes; acne vulgaris; inflammation; prostate cancer [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Lethargy

  Energy, exaltation, and supernatural activity are followed by indifference, lethargy, and loathing. Exuberant gaiety, laughter, and euphoria make place for dysphoria. depressive gloom, and melancholy. [psyking.net]

Further workup, including imaging and laboratory tests, was performed before surgical exploration. The first patient had unilateral ovotestis, contralateral testis, and SRY-negative 46,XX karyotype. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

U Gleissner and C Helmstaedter, Pre-surgical neuropsychological workup in children and intellectually disabled adults with epilepsy, Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery, 10.3109/9780203091708-107, (834-843), (2013). Reem A. Tarazi, T. Andrew Zabel and E. [doi.org]

• Sinus Arrhythmia

  Bean, Parenting Style and Adolescent Externalizing Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, Journal of Marriage and Family, 78, 4, (1149-1165), (2016). Sophia Chae, Sarah R. [doi.org]

A brief and general overview of typical head and facial pains and treatments will be offered. Moreover, atypical head and face pain will be discussed with treatment options. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

It most commonly occurs in young patients secondary to a postinfectious cerebellitis, which is typically associated with a very good prognosis and recovery. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] self-reporting schemes are used. 7, 8 Separating the physical components of puberty is essential to provide robust epidemiological data, aid clinical diagnosis as different endocrine systems influence breast or pubic and axillary hair development, and aid prognosis—for [doi.org]

In adolescence, acute cerebellar ataxia is more often the product of an etiology likely to progress into a chronic disorder without recovery to preillness baseline. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis of neuroimaging data collected from more than 700 children and ... read more Drinking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Taboo, Tolerated, and Treasured Oct. 30, 2017 — The etiology [sciencedaily.com]

Role of physical activity in the etiology and treatment of childhood obesity. Pediatrician 2: 82–88. Google Scholar Wheeler, R. C., Marcus, A. C., Allen, J. W., and Konugres, E. (1983). [doi.org]

University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 5 Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

RECENT FINDINGS: The most recent literature including case reports will be evaluated; possible pathophysiological mechanisms, resulting disabilities, and family and social impact will be discussed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Reproductive Endocrinology: Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Management (2nd Ed.). W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia. Google Scholar Zacharias, L., Rand, W. M., and Wurtman, R. J. A. (1976). [doi.org]

Data were drawn from a large drug abuse prevention trial, the Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP). Results showed that both perceived peer and friend cigarette use predicted own cigarette use within and across the adolescent years. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Characteristics of effective school-based substance abuse prevention. Prevention Science, 4 (1), 27–38. PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar Graber, J. A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1999). [doi.org]

CDC’s Pregnancy Prevention for Teens. Tips and information especially for teens and designed with input from teens. BAM! Body and Mind CDC’s BAM! [cdc.gov]