Trends in admissions to a child and adolescent neuropsychiatric inpatient unit in the 2007-2017 decade: how contemporary neuropsychiatry is changing in Northwestern Italy.

These data document a substantial change in the utilization of inpatient neuropsychiatric services for children and adolescents, with a major increase in psychiatric hospitalizations and a parallel decrease in neurological ones. These trends call for greater attention to early preventive intervention in mental healthcare system.