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To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Evidence Based Mental Health has devoted a Special Issue to child and adolescent mental health, acknowledging its crucial role in mental health. The issue, aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the advances and unmet needs in evidence-based child and adolescent mental health, includes three types of articles.
First, in a series of state-of-the-art reviews, renowned experts in the field provide a critical overview of the major advances in key areas of child and adolescent psychiatry over the past 20 years and highlight future research priorities. In a succinct but very thoughtful review, Doherty et al1 guide us through the journey of the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs), with a special focus on its implications for the clinical practice. While initial linkage analysis and candidate gene approaches...