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The Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Adolescents is based at the Maudsley Hospital, a psychiatric hospital run by the National Health Service NHS.
It is an outpatient service for children and young adults with mental health issues such as anorexia, named after Professor Sir Michael Rutter, and has an international reputation for providing a range of specialist treatments and services that include art therapy rooms, psychology assessment rooms and video observation suites, where clinicians can work together in assessing and deciding treatment for individual cases. Facilities also include:
The centre is famous for its debatable research into the possibility that cats can develop a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, say U.K. and U.S. researchers who identified a protein that can build up in brain nerve cells and cause mental deterioration.
In 1994 it was estimated that at least 10% of children suffering from mental health problems required specialist facilities, but only 1-1.5% of children were being referred. (Garralda, M.E. 1994). Parry-Jones described Child Mental Health Services as the 'Cinderella Service' (Parry-Jones, W. 1992). The Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Adolescents is the latest in a long line of innovations established by the Maudsley Hospital specializing in the treatment of youngsters with mental health issues.