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Day of neurodevelopment, for minor neuropsychic disorders doubled in 10 years

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Day of neurodevelopment, for minor neuropsychic disorders doubled in 10 years

Neurodevelopment, that complex period that from conception to the first 1000 days and then up to young adulthood, is a phase that determines the good physical and mental health of individuals, as well as in the genesis and in the possibilities of treating disorders. neurological, psychiatric and neuropsychological of childhood and adolescence.

With this goal, SINPIA – Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry launches the National Day for the promotion of neurodevelopment.

The risk factors

Common risk factors and genetic, neurobiological and environmental components transversal and age-specific can in fact interfere with the process of neurodevelopment, modifying the development of the brain very early, compromising the neural networks that underlie the maturation of adaptive, motor, communicative and learning functions. , emotions and behavior. The effects of these changes can be evident from the first years of life, leading to the onset of disorders such as autism, language and learning disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy. Or become evident in adolescence, with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.

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“We need targeted and careful interventions for the promotion of neurodevelopment – explains the professor Elisa Fazzi, President of SINPIA and director of the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit ASST Spedali Civili and University of Brescia – to increase protective factors and decrease the impact of risk factors. Interventions directly to support a harmonious emotional, motor, linguistic, cognitive, social development from birth to adolescence, and then interventions to support situations of family vulnerability, greater attention in all environments and in the contexts of life in which children and kids grow up and more. Finally, it is necessary to guarantee targeted interventions when there are signs of risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. In fact, more and more research shows how a positive neurodevelopment, from conception to young adulthood, is fundamental in determining the good physical and mental health of individuals “.

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Neuropsychic disorders for 20% between 0-17 years

Due to the pandemic and its impact on the general health of the population, the mental well-being of minors has decreased by more than 10% worldwide, with the doubling of children below the threshold of discomfort, with an increase in anger, boredom, difficulty of concentration, sense of loneliness and helplessness, stress, sleep disturbances as well as even more severe pathologies such as eating disorders and self-harm.

In Italy, neuropsychic disorders of developmental age affect almost 2 million children and young people, between 10 and 20% of the infant and adolescent population between 0 and 17 years, with very different manifestations in terms of type, course and prognosis. Their incidence is on the rise, in less than ten years the number of children and adolescents followed in the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry (NPIA) services has doubled.

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“The doubled prevalence of neuropsychic disorders is certainly the expression of a trend already present in the previous 10 years – explains the doctor. Antonella Costantino, Past President of SINPIA and Director of the Operating Unit of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry (UONPIA) of the IRCCS Foundation “Cà Granda” Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano – the Pandemic has however shown how a decrease in collective attention to neuropsychic needs of children and adolescents can have dramatic consequences on their mental health and their overall development, particularly for those already vulnerable. The exponential growth of requests we are witnessing concerns all neurodevelopmental disorders, across all developmental age groups, and is not limited only to psychiatric disorders in adolescence. Consequently, it must be approached with a systemic outlook, well rooted in the new knowledge offered by neuroscience, in the awareness that much can and must be done to prevent the emergence of disorders and that treatment requires clinical and organizational models capable of to adapt quickly to changing needs without falling into easy reductionism “.

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Finally, the increasingly overwhelmingly negative impact of economic, social, and cultural inequalities, in turn aggravated by further destabilizing events such as pandemics and wars, together with indifference, denial, misunderstanding, hostility and stigma, it has a disruptive value in the increase of neuropsychiatric disorders.

“The problems resulting from neuropsychic disorders of the developmental age are now dramatic and tragically neglected, both in terms of implementing adequate prevention strategies and in terms of resources for treatment – concludes Prof. Elisa Fazzi – Resources and system responses, integrated and coordinated between education, social and health, in the context of a profound cultural change that opens up to innovation and the future, so that all children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families finally see the right recognized to appropriate and timely treatment and their maximum development potential guaranteed “.

Illuminated monuments

To celebrate the Day, on the evening of 11 May many Italian municipalities and institutions will illuminate their offices or monuments with the colors of the rainbow, including the headquarters of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome and the Loggia in Brescia. Also on the occasion of the Day of Neurosdevelopment, the Neuro Psychiatry Services and Operational Units of the Italian regions will activate local initiatives to raise awareness on the issue.

On the same day of Wednesday 11 May starting at 16.30, a free webinar open to the entire population promoted by SINPIA will be dedicated to the importance of investment in promoting neurodevelopment and treating related disorders.

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