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]

• Pain

  Moreover, atypical head and face pain will be discussed with treatment options. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Pain is one of the primary symptoms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). JIA patients have reduced pain tolerance and pain threshold compared to healthy controls. [pure.au.dk]

• Weakness

  The findings suggest that maladaptive risk-taking characterized by weak cognitive control over reward-driven impulses is a phenomenon limited to only a sub-set of youth. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  But it is important to realize that this is characteristic of only a subset of youth with weak ability to control their behavior. [theconversation.com]

• Anemia

  A 15-year-old female adolescent, admitted to the hospital due to severe anemia, loss of body weight accompanied with recurrent fever and tend to be easily tired. She was through investigation for hematology disorder with normal results. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  JRA may cause fever and anemia, and can also affect the heart, lungs, eyes, and nervous system. Arthritic episodes can last for several weeks and may recur, although the symptoms tend to be less severe during later recurrent attacks. [webmd.com]

  Among the health problems which are related to nutrition during adolescence and also can effect all life periods are obesity, anemia due to iron and vitamin B12 deficiency, zinc deficiency, growth and development retardation, anorexia nervosa, bulimia [abstractagent.com]

• Crying

  The infant also showed more negative behaviors, such as protesting with expressions of anger and crying. [noldus.com]

  Adolescent girls are vulnerable to crying. Mood swings are common among teenage boys and girls. Bodily changes result in self-consciousness. Children who hit puberty early may even feel weird. [momjunction.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]

• Hypertension

  Both were first diagnosed with proteinuria during adolescence, and patient 2 also had hypertension. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  [g]The AAP recommends screening between ages 12 years and 17 years only if they have a family history of high cholesterol or coronary artery disease or risk factors for coronary artery disease (eg, diabetes, obesity, hypertension). [merckmanuals.com]

• Fracture

  Most of the fractures require open reduction and internal fixation and usually heal well without any significant complications. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Epidemiology of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures. Epidemiol Rev 1985 ;7: 178 –208. 2. Melton LJ, Riggs BL. Epidemiology of age-related fractures. In: Avioli LV, ed. The osteoporotic syndrome: detection, prevention, and treatment. 2nd ed. [doi.org]

• Back Pain

  Figure 1 A-E Lower Back Pain When scoliosis begins in adolescence, patients often report some back pain, typically in the low-er back. [srs.org]

  Rebecca Bendayan, Carmen Ramírez-Maestre, Emilio Ferrer, Alicia López and Rosa Esteve, From acute to chronic back pain: Using linear mixed models to explore changes in pain intensity, disability, and depression, Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 16, 1, (2017 [doi.org]

• Blonde Hair

  If you have dark hair on your head, your body hair may also be dark, so that it’s more visible. If you have very light blonde hair on your head, you may have very light and blonde body hair, but not always. [web.archive.org]

• Fear

  This article summarises those initial findings on the circuitry of fear inhibition, and describes in detail the new findings on adolescent fear inhibition that highlight the prefrontal cortex as a key, unrefined brain region that may govern adolescent [doi.org]

  From birth to adulthood, we give you advice on everything from easing your child's fears about the dentist to talking to your teenager about drugs. [my.clevelandclinic.org]

  Balance is hypothesized to occur when expected possible selves are offset by countervailing feared selves in the same domain (e.g., expecting a job, but fearing being unemployed). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Social Isolation

  Attempts to resolve the problems, including running away from home and increasing social isolation, may precipitate an attempted suicide. Early professional help is often needed to prevent withdrawal and acting out of problems. [cliffsnotes.com]

  […] the police Poor communication with parents Psychosocial factors Recent disciplinary action§ (most commonly, school suspension) Interpersonal loss (loss of a girlfriend or boyfriend, especially in boys; separation from parents) Difficulties in school Social [merckmanuals.com]

  It can also affect a teen’s: personal life school life work life social life family life This can lead to social isolation and other problems. Depression isn’t a condition people can “snap out of,” or simply “cheer up” from. [healthline.com]

• Confusion

  It may often be confused clinically with other pathologic entities, such as prolapsed rectal polyps and hemorrhoids. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Adding to the confusion is the fact that there is more than one developmental pathway to adulthood and societal integration. Adolescence literally means ‘growing into maturity’. [neufeldinstitute.org]

  Those who do not feel inferior and may shun new activities. 12 to 18 Years Genital Identity vs. role confusion Adolescents build on all earlier experiences to develop a sense of self-identity. [web.archive.org]

  Role Confusion (teens-early 20s)• Identity achievement reached through “selective repudiation and mutual assimilation of childhood identifications.” [slideshare.net]

  This period is also one of confusion, when the teen is torn between the desire for autonomy and the need to remain dependant on his or her parents. Friendships also become more important. [brunet.ca]

• Irritability

  A lot of things adolescents do are irritating (as you probably irritate them too), but not all are worth an argument. It is usually better to spend time on praising good decisions or behaviour. [patient.info]

  According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), some signs of adolescent depression include: appearing sad, irritable, or tearful changes in appetite or weight a decreased interest in activities your child once found pleasurable [healthline.com]

  On the other hand, you might feel tired, bloated, irritable or unhappy and your breasts may be sore and swollen. [web.archive.org]

  However, there has been relatively little research on the affective and attitudinal characteristics often associated with the adolescent period—elation, thrill seeking, excitement, moodiness, shifts in energy, irritability, restlessness. [nap.edu]

• Stroke

  The current paper presents the case of a male adolescent who experienced a stroke with resultant aphasia and the speech and language therapy he received. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Rapoport Biometry Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, Federal Building, Room 7C06, 7550 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA Neal O. [doi.org]

  However, just 10 days later, Mario was diagnosed as having had a perinatal stroke. The right side of his brain was damaged, leaving him unable to move the left si... [ted.com]

• Seizure

  Epileptic seizures occur in about 25 percent of all juvenile HD cases, and are very rare in adults with Huntington’s. *** Huntington’s Disease News is strictly a news and information website about the disease. [huntingtonsdiseasenews.com]

  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 and benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes, Seizure [doi.org]

• Agitation

  Their episodes must involve at least five of the following symptoms: agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others a depressed mood most of the day a diminished ability to think or concentrate a diminished interest in most or all activities fatigue [healthline.com]

  Tiwari, Pain and emergence agitation in children, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 50, 1, (124-124), (2005). T. [doi.org]

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]