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pediatric psychopharmacology

the branch of pharmacology that involves the study of drugs used to treat mental and behavioral disorders of childhood and adolescence. It helps determine the choice of drug according to the age of the child, the diagnosis, the duration and severity of the disorder, and the availability of the patient for behavioral and laboratory monitoring of drug effects.

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paranoid pseudocommunity

see pseudocommunity.