Sometimes, the medications needed to function and live a quality life cause side effects that can make life quite uncomfortable.
Dr. Jeffrey Strawn, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a UC Health physician, and Jeffrey Mills, associate professor in the Department of Economics at the UC Lindner College of Business, published a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry looking specifically at side effects that impact children and adolescents being treated for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Strawn says this is one of the first studies examining side effects of these medications in youth that doesn’t just focus on suicidal thinking or discontinuation of medication.
This work is part of the innovation agenda in UC's Next Lives Here strategic direction.
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