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Fiction

Power of Words

 

For something a bit different:

 

The End:

A short story about the end of the world. Commended by the KSP Writer’s Centre Short Fiction Awards 2016.

 

PSI: A Mental Health Novella

What happens when the world’s leading authority of mental health, reclusive for 10 years, suddenly grants an interview?

Biological

  • Carbamazepine for Dementia – the forgotten, and superior, alternative to antipsychotics July 1, 2015

    Brain_In_Blue_by_SilverGryphon8

     

    Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) is a catch-all phrase referring to one of many behaviours that patients with ...

  • Flight of Ideas – Death of a Definition March 12, 2015

    LeBris1868

    The term “flight of ideas” is commonly known, but do you know what it actually means? Or where it comes ...

  • Glutamate and Dopamine – why it matters in Schizophrenia March 2, 2017

    Brain_In_Blue_by_SilverGryphon8

     

    Published in MindCafe February 2017

    Dopaminergic theories of schizophrenia predominate most psychopharmacological teaching regarding relevant receptor contributions to mental illness. We ...

  • Neuroimaging in Schizophrenia April 14, 2015

    Brain_In_Blue_by_SilverGryphon8

    (The following includes content originally published in mindcafe)

    The role of neuroimaging in schizophrenia detection and management is an exciting ...

  • Videogames – friend or foe? January 12, 2016

    Videogames

    Psychiatry has had an unusual relationship with videogames – and despite several hundred studies on the topic, it is still ...

Psychological

  • Mental Health Resources October 10, 2015

    The Internet is rife with well-intentioned mental health advice, supposed resources, and many, many pitfalls. Much of the difficulty is the reality of psychiatry, in that the lack of objective evidence regarding psychiatric illness (save treatment responses and, ...

  • Personality disorders – the ignored mental health epidemic June 18, 2016

    Power of Words

     

    Pancreatic cancer is well known as the cancer with the lowest profile. A poorly understood and minimally researched disease, its dismal prognosis has an aura of untreatability that is ...

  • Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response June 30, 2017

     

    I work in an old age mental health service. We have a patient, a 77 year old woman, who used to live in her family’s backyard in a tent. She would ...

  • Euthanasia – the problem of capacity November 28, 2015

    Power of Words

    I once had a 70 year old patient with recurrent serious depressive episodes leading to suicide attempts. She was a “professional suicider”, in that she subscribed to an ...

  • Videogames – friend or foe? January 12, 2016

    Videogames

    Psychiatry has had an unusual relationship with videogames – and despite several hundred studies on the topic, it is still not clear how and to what extent they influence the ...

Sociocultural

  • Mentorship – The Meaning of Life For the Elderly May 23, 2017

    I look after the mental health of older adults in the community. Despite common opinion, older adults are usually not more ...

  • Black Clouds After the Fires February 24, 2015

    clouds

    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following natural disasters – There has been a remarkable shift in how we respond to it, that has more than a little to do with common sense.

    Black ...

  • Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response June 30, 2017

     

    I work in an old age mental health service. We have a patient, a 77 year old woman, who used to live in her family’s backyard in a tent. She would ...

  • Why Doctors Commit Suicide March 28, 2015

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    This image – of an overwhelmed emergency physician dealing with the loss of a patient – went viral on the Internet. Trying to explain why leads to important considerations ...

  • Analysing Trump: Pitfalls and Professionalism February 21, 2017

    Dog

    No political figure has ever mobilised, and frustrated, the mental health profession as much as President Trump.

    Prior to Mr Trump’s inauguration, 3 professors of psychiatry called for a ‘neuropsychiatric evaluation’. Shortly ...

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