The DSM-5 and the complexities and capitalising of classification
Today we feature another guest blog from Professor Simon Hatcher’s excellent blog. We’ll be posting one blog every month from Simon who is Full Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Ottawa –...
View ArticleAre psychotic symptoms predictive of suicide attempts?
Over the past several years, there has been a lively academic debate about what it means to have psychotic symptoms. Although these symptoms (most commonly auditory hallucinations) can be part of the...
View ArticleCutting across diagnostic categories: Does stimulant medication improve ADHD...
Until fairly recently, it was thought that autism spectrum disorder (ASD; previously known as PDD or pervasive developmental disorder) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were two...
View ArticleDiagnostic test accuracy of first rank symptoms for schizophrenia
Raphael Underwood summarises a recently updated Cochrane systematic review, which aimed to systematically evaluate the accuracy of first rank symptoms for diagnosing schizophrenia. The post Diagnostic...
View ArticleExperience sampling and ecological momentary assessment for studying anxiety...
Alan Underwood publishes his debut Mental Elf blog on a narrative review of experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment for studying the lives of people with anxiety disorders. The post...
View ArticleWhat do you want from your psychiatric medication?
John Baker presents a systematic review of preferences for medication-associated outcomes in mental disorders, which concludes that we just don't know what value mental health service users place on...
View ArticlePrognosis of brief psychotic episodes
Samei Huda presents the findings of a new meta-analysis, which explores the prognostic significance of competing ways of defining and measuring brief psychotic episodes. The post Prognosis of brief...
View ArticlePeriodontal disease – patient awareness levels low
Six cross sectional and community-based studies involving a total of 7945 patients were included in this review. While awareness and knowledge of periodontal disease was found to be low the quality of...
View ArticleTrajectories of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents
Jess Bone on a systematic review of longitudinal studies, which explores the different trajectories of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents, and the factors that might help predict or...
View ArticleMemory lane: the road to recovery in depression?
Becci Strawbridge explores a prospective cohort study that looks at variation in the recall of socially rewarding information and depressive symptom severity. The post Memory lane: the road to recovery...
View ArticleIs mental malaise the psychological equivalent of obesity?
Stan Kutcher reflects on a recently published briefing paper entitled: mental ill-health among children of the new century, which concluded that one in four 14 year old girls had self-reported “high...
View ArticleThe Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments #SeeingFurther
Ioana Cristea highlights some of the key ideas from the recently published Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science. She also raises a number of...
View ArticleImproving antidepressant outcomes: what works for whom and why?
Thalia Eley and Gerome Breen explore a new systematic meta-review of predictors of antidepressant treatment outcome in depression, which looks at clinical and demographic variables, but also biomarkers...
View ArticleDepression in young people: are we researching what matters most?
Tamsin Ford asks what outcomes count, when it comes to measuring adolescent depression? The post Depression in young people: are we researching what matters most? appeared first on National Elf Service.
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