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Mashup Score: 2The outsourcing of risk: out-of-area placements for individuals diagnosed with personality disorder in the UK - 1 year(s) ago
According to the UK Department of Health and Social Care, out-of-area placements occur when a “person with assessed acute mental health needs who requires adult mental health acute inpatient care, is admitted to a unit that does not form part of the usual local network of services”.1 Although for many individuals this can mean a night in the neighbouring trust (an organisational unit within the…
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Professional musicians in the popular music industries seem to have increased mental health difficulties relative to the general population,1 however, the reasons for this are poorly understood. From Janis Joplin to Avicii, high-profile deaths from suicide and drug misuse by musicians in the public eye are part of our collective cultural history. Such losses have engendered growing concern, as…
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Mashup Score: 1Lithium story: eight guidelines, eight recommendations - 1 year(s) ago
When I was first prescribed lithium, my psychiatrist told me to take it once daily just before bed, and to get a blood test measuring the trough serum level 12 hours after the previous dose. I was troubled by these instructions. Firstly, I did not understand why my psychiatrist was using the term trough to apply to a lithium serum concentration about halfway between peak and trough serum…
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Mashup Score: 0Ukraine: resilience and reconstruction - 1 year(s) ago
Mental health care in Ukraine was already undergoing reorganisation before the second Russian invasion on Feb 24, 2022. The country had inherited Soviet-style health care when it became independent in 1991. This comprised a large, institutionalised psychiatric system associated with human rights violations, with few or no community-based services for people with mental disorders. Low awareness of…
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September 6, 2022, 5:50am: I slid into the chilled water, rather than jumped, cautious of how my body would react. Self-consciously, I looked around at the other lap swimmers, the swim team practising. “Am I really doing this?”, I wondered. One deep breath, and I pushed off, being sure to start my freestyle with a powerful butterfly kick, hoping muscle memory would kick in. Panic quickly rushed…
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Mashup Score: 4The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic - 1 year(s) ago
The felt presence experience is the basic feeling that someone else is present in the immediate environment, without clear sensory evidence. Ranging from benevolent to distressing, personified to ambiguous, felt presence has been observed in neurological case studies and within psychosis and paranoia, associated with sleep paralysis and anxiety, and recorded within endurance sports and…
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Mashup Score: 3Stress on the job? Police forces reaching breaking point - 1 year(s) ago
Imagine what you might encounter as a police officer over years of service. What you see and experience will have consequences on and off the job. Research indicates that rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the UK police are almost five times higher than in the general UK population, and other countries report a similar narrative. Abusive policing practices and reports of abusive…
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Our results suggest that long-term treatment with methylphenidate for 2 years is safe. There was no evidence to support the hypothesis that methylphenidate treatment leads to reductions in growth. Methylphenidate-related pulse and blood pressure changes, although relatively small, require regular monitoring.
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Mashup Score: 1Grading disorder severity and averted burden by access to treatment within the GBD framework: a case study with anxiety disorders - 1 year(s) ago
Because it is based on guidance from a single survey done in one high-income country, the burden of anxiety disorders in low-income and middle-income countries is probably underestimated by GBD. Despite the availability of effective treatments, low use of these treatments means that most burden is still avoidable. Most of the burden could be averted if all people with anxiety disorders had access…
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Mashup Score: 0The price of silence: time to address the hidden cost of domestic violence in academic medicine - 1 year(s) ago
We are survivors of domestic violence. It feels odd to see it written out so starkly in black and white—to acknowledge it publicly nearly 30 years after the fact. That said, it is long past time that we talked about how domestic violence affects people like us in academic medicine: one, an adult psychiatrist at tertiary-care academic medical centres, psychiatric hospitals, and a patient-centered…
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The outsourcing of risk: out-of-area placements for individuals diagnosed with personality disorder in the UK https://t.co/4DkfNbuTcJ via @Keirwales et al