Developmental psychiatry needed in training and clinical practice

Epigenetics and developmental psychiatry

“…I appreciate the Editorial by Ventriglio, Torales, and Bhugra (2016) which discussed the importance of developmental psychiatry and the need to include it in psychiatric training and clinical practice. The authors suggested that since development occurs across the life span of an individual, child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry and psychiatry of old age cannot be compartmentalized into distinct entities, but instead should be considered as merging into each other.…”