Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Lancet Psychiatry

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Psychodermatology: a historical perspective

British Journal of Dermatology Volume 177, Issue S1, July 2017, Pages: 190–198. Historical Abstracts Orals

Psychodermatology encompasses the grey boundary between psychiatry and dermatology. It covers cutaneous disease aggravated by mental health (e.g. psoriasis), psychiatric conditions that present to dermatology (e.g. delusional infestation) and psychiatric disease secondary to cutaneous disease (e.g.

depression). Through analysis of source material this poster explores the history and development of psychodermatology.

UHCW Research: D. Jackson, R. Jerrom and A. Sharma

Psychology should be valid second science for medical students, psychiatrists say

Psychology should be offered as an alternative to a secondscience by all medical schools, the Royal College of Psychiatristssays in its General Election manifesto launched today.

Currently only one medical school, Sheffield, offers psychology as an alternative to a second science or mathematics.

It means many students interested in mental health may be put off from applying to study medicine because they think their interest in psychology will rule them out.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease: a clinical review

This study found a growing evidence base that CBT (modified to account for PD-specific problems) is effective in the treatment of PD psychiatric symptoms. Where controlled study design was used, moderate effect sizes are reported for the efficacy of CBT for depression, including with distance administration of CBT. The effects were sustained during follow-up which was between 1 and 6 months.

Evidence Based Mental Health, 20, (1) 15, 2017 (Log in with your Athens username and password)

Brain differences in ADHD

Largest imaging study of ADHD to date identifies differences in five regions of the brain, with greatest differences seen in children rather than adults.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with the delayed development of five brain regions and should be considered a brain disorder, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

LSD Helps Explain How Brain Makes Meaning

Emerging research with the psychedelic drug LSD has led to breakthroughs on our understanding of how the brain assigns meaning to particular experiences.

We all have unique remembrances of particular things — a favorite song, for example — that mean much more to us than others.

Now, investigators who have studied how perceptions of meaning change when people take the psychedelic drug known as LSD have traced that sense of meaningfulness to particular neurochemicals and receptors in the brain.

Area of brain linked to bipolar disorder pinpointed

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus -- long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing -- was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The research was published today in Molecular Psychiatry, part of the Nature Publishing Group.

OP103. Using formulation in general psychiatric care: good practice

This paper is concerned with the use of formulation by psychiatrists in the context of general psychiatric care. Formulation is essential to a biopsychosocial approach. It is recognised within the psychiatry curriculum as a core competence for all psychiatrists (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2013).