Gordana Milavi? Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Depression; Children; Adolescent; MRI, Genetics; Systems neuroscience
National and Specialist Services, Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Gordana Milavic, MD., F.R.C.Psych., Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital, Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, Former Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, ?o-Chairperson of the Special Session "Child&Adolescent Mental Health" in the frame of the Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of the XXI Century with welcome address to the participants.
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Author(s): Tomoya Hirota, Gordana Milavi?, Fiona McNicholas, Thomas Frodl, Norbert Skokauskas
Depression is one of the most common psychological disorders in children and adolescents often presenting as a severe, chronic and recurring condition with a high risk of self-harm and suicide. Normal brain development during adolescence is necessary to put into context when investigating biology of adolescent depression. There is an uneven timeline for development going from ‘bottom up’ with the subcortical limbic areas developing firs... view moreĀ»