Dr. Wanjiku F.M. Njoroge, the Medical Director of the Young Child Clinic, recently discussed the state of mental health in children and young people with the Philadelphia Inquirer.

CHOP’s Psychiatrist-in-Chief discusses rising rates of mental health conditions and how families can help their children.

CHOP researchers have integrated environmental, genetic, and imaging data to better understand which factors might be clinically relevant when it comes to psychiatric and cognitive outcomes.

The worsening mental health crisis is causing the Taskforce to rethink federal guidelines.

A recent CDC study finds 40% of teens feel “persistently sad and hopeless.”

CHOP and Penn researchers have found the combined effects of structural racism and the pandemic, known as a “syndemic,” were associated with negative postpartum mental health.

CHOP and Penn researchers, along with others, have created a new tool that benchmarks brain development over the human lifespan, based on MRI data from more than 100,000 individuals.

Learning to adjust talkativeness could be an important growth opportunity for verbally fluent people with autism.

Dr. Tami Benton, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, discusses the Biden Administration’s mental health care plan.

The Commission aims to right biased policies including exclusionary zoning, racial covenants, and pollution.