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Building ties in the community for patients with mental illness
(2016)
Since its conception in the 1960s, community psychiatry has aimed at caring for people suffering from mental disorders without secluding them from their life environment. Its main aim is not the mere treatment of symptoms ...
Dementia and delirium: cause for concern
(2016)
Delirium prevention should be key to a person-centred approach and central to our work with people with dementia, says Claire Biernacki. She explains it’s causes and predisposing factors. The types of delirium and how it ...
Psychiatric disorders: The psychiatrist's contribution to sport
(2016)
Athletes experience a range of mental health problems with at least an equivalent prevalence to the general population. This chapter explores the psychiatrist's role in sport, along a pathway of mental healthcare from ...
High-Volume Repeaters of Self-Harm
(2016)
BACKGROUND: Repetition of self-harm is common and is strongly associated with suicide. Despite this, there is limited research on high-volume repetition.AIM: To investigate individuals with high-volume repeat self-harm ...
Value of patient-reported symptoms in the diagnosis of transient loss of consciousness
(2016)
Objective: Epileptic seizures, syncope, and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) account for over 90% of presentations with transient loss of consciousness (TLOC). The patient's history is crucial for the diagnosis, ...
Body image and weight-related shame prospectively predict binge eating symptomology and weight outcomes: The value of deshaming approaches to weight management.
(2016)
Background & Aims: Cross sectional associations suggest that BMI is associated with body image shame, which, in turn, is associated with negative self evaluations and loss of control of eating (binge eating symptomology) ...
Suicidal events due to overdose and medical comorbidities in psychiatric disorders of ICD-10 classes F1-F4: A comparative overview of five studies in general hospital admissions
(2016)
Introduction General hospital-based studies may help towards improving the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Objectives and aims Based on five representative studies in general hospital admissions, we will represent a ...
Impact of the recent recession on self-harm: Longitudinal ecological and patient-level investigation from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England
(2016)
Background Economic recessions are associated with increases in suicide rates but there is little information for non-fatal self-harm. Aims To investigate the impact of the recent recession on rates of self-harm in England ...
Screening exons 16 and 17 of the amyloid precursor protein gene in sporadic early-onset Alzheimer's disease
(2016)
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) can be familial (FAD) or sporadic EOAD (sEOAD); both have a disease onset <65 years of age. A total of 451 sEOAD samples were screened for known causative mutations in exons 16 and ...
Physical comorbidity and consequences for mortality and treatment
(2016)
Introduction Ageing is related to an increase rate of physical comorbidity. However, the interaction between physical comorbidity and the development of depression in the elderly is not yet clear. Depression may be the ...