Hats Off: Journal Awards

JOURNAL AWARDS Hats Off: Journal Awards It was no easy task to select this year’s three award-winning papers. Each was published in the Journal between July 2007 and June 2008, has a child and adolescent psychiatrist as lead author, and epitomizes scholarly excellence in key areas of our discipline. As has been the tradition in the past years, the challenge of identifying the recipientsVand the harder one of not selecting so many deserving othersVwas shared by your President, your Editor, and last year’s awardees. The 2008 AACAP Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement goes to Sabine J. Roza, M.D., of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. Roza and colleagues1 in the Generation R Study Group are to be commended for bringing state-of-the-art measures to this largescale population-based study of developmental trajectories from fetal life onward. We note that although the article’s main finding was negative (specifically, little indication emerged of an association between intrauterine growth trajectories and temperament difficulties in infants), the hypothesis-driven and meticulous design was exemplary. We look forward to seeing more results from the ambitious Generation R project in the years to come. The 2008 AACAP Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide goes to Manpreet Kaur Singh, M.D., M.S., of the Division of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati’s Department of Psychiatry, Cincinnati. Again, this study had largely null findings,2 in that children with a familial risk for mania did not differ from controls in the volume of the amygdala, striatum, thalamus, or prefrontal cortex. Building on the research interest that pediatric bipolar disorder has received in recent years, Dr. Singh and colleagues’ paper is a significant early contribution to a new generation of studies on brain structure and function in children at high risk for this disabling chronic illness. The 2008 AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder goes to Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M.D., of the Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. The study by Dr. Todd and colleagues3 is the latest in a rich series of contributions harnessing the power of longitudinal population-based twin studies to inform nosology and classification efforts in child and adolescent psychiatry. Here, by approaching ADHD using population-based rather than DSM-based subtypes, the authors were able to increase diagnostic stability. As the introduction of DSM-V approaches, empirically based efforts to refine nosology such as this, especially those that complement cross-sectional clinical studies, could not be more timely or relevant. Even as we celebrate this year’s recipients for their remarkable accomplishments, we salute the authors of all articles published during this time: your Journal’s excellence is a reflection of our authors’ (and reviewers’) hard work, commitment to advancing pediatric mental health, scientific originality and rigor, and adherence to the highest ethical standards. Andrés Martin, M.D., M.P.H., Robert L. Hendren, D.O., Laurence L. Greenhill, M.D., and Héctor R. Bird, M.D. Disclosure: Dr. Greenhill is the recipient of the 2007 Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Greenhill L, Kollins S, Abikoff H, et al. Efficacy and safety of immediate-release methylphenidate treatment for preschoolers with ADHD. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006;45:1284Y1293. Dr. Greenhill has accepted research funding from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the National Institute of Mental Health, and Johnson & Johnson, and previously served as the chair for Pfizer’s ziprasidone pediatric studies, but no longer does so. Dr. Bird is the recipient of the 2007 Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Bird HR, Shrout PE, Davies M, et al. Longitudinal development of antisocial behaviors in young and early adolescent Puerto Rican children at two sites. J Am 1484 WWW.JAACAP.COM Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007;46:5Y14. Recipients of the 2007 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for March J, Siulva S, Vitiello B, TADS Team. The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): methods and message at 12 weeks. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006;45:1343Y1403 recused themselves from the selection process because of a potential conflict of interest. 0890-8567/08/4712-1484Ó2008 by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI:10.1097/CHI.0b013e31818960e3 J. AM . ACAD. CHILD ADOLE SC. PSYCHIAT RY, 47:12, DECEMBE R 2008 JOURNAL AWARDS REFERENCES 1. Roza SJ, van Lier PA, Jaddoe VW et al. Intrauterine growth and infant temperamental difficulties: the Generation R Study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008;47:264Y272. 2. Singh MK, Delbello MP, Adler CM, Stanford KE, Strakowski SM. J. AM . ACAD. CHILD ADOLESC. PSYCH IAT RY, 47:12, DECEMBE R 2008 Neuroanatomical characterization of child offspring of bipolar parents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008;47:526Y531. 3. Todd RD, Huang H, Todorov AA et al. Predictors of stability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder subtypes from childhood to young adulthood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008;47: 76Y85. 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