Browsing by Subject "Psychiatry"
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Autistic Tendencies: The Consequences for Our Culture
(2006)Professor Michael Fitzgeraldtalks withJoe Griffinabout the powerful impact, both positive and negative, of autistic thinking in diverse walks of life. -
Cigarette smoking and psychotic symptoms in bipolar affective disorder
(The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2001)Background An association exists between smoking and schizophrenia, independent of other factors and related to psychotic symptomatology. Aims To determine whether smoking is associated with psychosis in bipolar affective ... -
Combined Analysis from Eleven Linkage Studies of Bipolar Disorder Provides Strong Evidence of Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 6q and 8q
(Elsevier, 2005)Several independent studies and meta-analyses aimed at identifying genomic regions linked to bipolar disorder (BP) have failed to find clear and consistent evidence of linkage regions. Our hypothesis is that combining the ... -
The Depression Network (DeNT) Study: Methodology and Sociodemographic characteristics of the first 470 affected sibling pairs from a large multi-site linkage genetics study
(BMC, 2004)Background: The Depression Network Study (DeNt) is a multicentre study designed to identify genes and/or loci linked to and/or associated with susceptibility to unipolar depression in Caucasian families. This study ... -
The DUNDRUM-1 structured professional judgment for triage to appropriate levels of therapeutic security: retrospective-cohort validation study.
(2011)BACKGROUND: The assessment of those presenting to prison in-reach and court diversion services and those referred for admission to mental health services is a triage decision, allocating the patient to the appropriate ... -
Electroconvulsive therapy - state of the art
(The Royal College of Physicians, 2003)Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been available for more than 60 years it is still the most acutely effective antidepressant treatment available (McCall, 2001). However, despite substantial advances in safety ... -
Euthanasia, assisted suicide and psychiatry: a Pandora's box
(2002)Euthanasia has been defined as `the bringing about of a gentle and easy death for someone suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma? (Pearsall & Trumble, 1996). It accounts for nearly 2% ... -
Executive Function in Routine Childhood ADHD Assessment
(2010)Aims: To determine the metacognitive deficits and behavioural and emotional regulation deficits among a group of children undergoing treatment for ADHD and to compare these with the hyperactivity/inattentive and behavioural ... -
Gene-ontology enrichment analysis in two independent family-based samples highlights biologically plausible processes for autism spectrum disorders.
(2011)Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have implicated a range of genes from discrete biological pathways in the aetiology of autism. However, despite the strong influence of genetic factors, association studies ... -
Genetic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.
(Freund and Pettman, 2005)In the current minireview, we focus on genetic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because various excellent, up-to-date reviews, special issues, and reliable websites are already dedicated to the genetics of Alzheimer's ... -
Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci.
(2011)We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of European ancestry and a stage 2 replication ...