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It became legal for doctors to prescribe cannabis based drugs on 1 November. But who will be able to issue these products, for what conditions, and what’s the evidence? Nigel Hawkes reports
Only specialists, and they will be expected to get approval from the chair of their hospital’s drug and therapeutics committee, or the medical director, on a named patient basis. GPs cannot prescribe
NHS England lists just two: children with rare forms of epilepsy and adults with nausea or vomiting caused by…

We have been seeing some groundbreaking developments in understanding psychological disorders and how best to treat them this year. It seems that May was the cream on the cake, with game changing advances in autism, schizophrenia and depression research — quite fitting for International Mental Health Awareness Month
There were two main themes that emerged from the best and worst research: Insights that can help improve…

Carol Tavris reviews "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"; "The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry," by Gary Greenberg; and "Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life," by Allen Frances.

For psychiatry to be successful there needs to be an open and accepting attitude that promotes this storytelling.

Calling psychiatric patients "consumers" and "clients" is misguided.

In developed countries such as the UK we eat a greater variety of foodstuffs than ever before – but it doesn’t follow that we are well-nourished

On August 15th, 1951, an outbreak of hallucinations, panic attacks and psychotic episodes swept through the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France, hospitalizing dozens of its inhabitants and…

An important new study could undermine the concept of ‘endophenotypes’ – and thus derail one of the most promising lines of research in neuroscience and psychiatry. The findings are out now in Psychophysiology. Unusually, an entire special issue of the journal is devoted to presenting the various results of the study, along with commentary, but …

Psychologists work in areas like sport, school, clinical, developmental, forensic and rehabilitation/health psychology, doing research, consulting, diagnosing and teaching.

Emerging Trends in Undergraduate Medical Education: Implications for Geriatric Psychiatry
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Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, Dallas, TX, March 24–27, 2017.

Psychiatry and the global drugs debate: what every psychiatrist needs to know - Owen Bowden-Jones, Julia Sinclair, Anne Lingford-Hughes

I am sure that there are some who still proclaim that psychology’s greatest achievement is buried somewhere in Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic papers, whereas others will reject the focus on early childhood memories in favor of present day Skinnerian contingencies of prediction and control.

The articles in this Special Report provide a broad, cross-cutting perspective on the current state of addiction psychiatry, insofar as it may pertain to your own clinical practice. 1

Computer models can help planners deal with large groups of people but we need better insight into the psychology of crowds to make them accurate.

The March 2017 issue of the ECAP journal highlights prevention. An editorial by Carmen Moreno (Madrid) – Are we there yet? – provides an overview, and two other articles focus on the subject: Andrew Pickles (London) et al. present a report on Prenatal anxiety, maternal stroking in infancy, and sy...

Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

Racial and ethnic minority statistics across psychology subfields.

In this issue of CCPR we focus on the treatment of children in foster care systems. Nearly one in three of these children have significant psychiatric problems during their time in foster care—especially those related to trauma and neglect that brought them into the system (McMillen JC et al, J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2005;44(1):88– 95). Recently, psychiatrists working with foster kids have been under…

Using the Psychology of Change framework to tap into what motivates people to change can be the key to sustainable improvement. How can a team be sure that using the framework is helping? They can apply all five domains of the Framework to determine measures and collect and analyze data.