Stuart L. Kaplan M.D.

About

Stuart L. Kaplan, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, has authored over 100 scientific journal articles, presentations, and book chapters in child and adolescent psychiatry. He has served as the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at university medical schools, as the Director of Child Psychiatry physician training programs, and on the editorial boards of prestigious scientific child psychiatric journals. He is Board Certified in Adult Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Kaplan is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Recent Posts

Can Countries Lose Their Minds?

To say that a country lost its mind is a metaphoric description of a politically dysfunctional state.

Jupiter’s Moons and Childhood Bipolar Disorder

...Psychiatry has a different problem... from that of astronomers of the early 1600’s. Instead of an inability to see...phenomena...psychiatrists see phenomena that are not there.

Central Planning and U.S Child Psychopharmacology

Is there overcontrol of the prescription of antipsychotics to children and adolescents in the U.S.?

Astronomy and Psychiatry: Brain Dust and Cosmic Dust

Let's clean up some conclusions in recent psychiatric studies of the brain

A Novel Trial for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

The failure of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder to respond to lamotrigine as adolescents and adults...

The Most Important Controversy in Current Psychiatry

A dimensional approach does not permit discrimination between health and illness, and there is no scientific base for its use in research.

A Sad Clinical Trial for Depression

One of the most incendiary indictments of clinical psychopharmacology trials in children and adolescents was published in the September 2015 Issue of the well respected British Med

Stimulant Treatment of Children with ADHD and Tics

For decades a dispute has persisted about whether stimulant medications for ADHD can cause tics. A recent study seems to have resolved the issue.

Psychiatry and Frankenstein

Effective psychiatric treatments may serve as unwanted reminders that the human mind is a machine that can be broken and remedied with mechanical fixes

Attempting to Provide Care for Vulnerable Children

In a major study of children aged two to fourteen years in foster care, only 25% of children with severe behavioral needs received any services at all.