Limitations of Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Exposed by Mass Shooters

No single discipline– including psychiatry– ought to presume to be able to deal with such elaborate issues on its own. While preventing making any grand claims relating to the social foundations of these events, there is value for our field in analyzing them …See all stories on this subject

Joel Elkes, psychopharmacologist – obituary

Joel Elkes, who has passed away aged 101, led the first department of speculative psychiatry on the planet– the Uffculme Clinic in Birmingham– where, during the 1950s, he performed the very first scientific trial of a medicinal treatment for …See all stories on this subject

UF teacher eliminated in hit-and-run

Dr. Richard C. Christensen did his biggest work in the streets. Christensen, a gifted psychiatrist and professor in the University of Florida’s psychiatry department, invested nearly as much time counseling individuals outside, in parks and under bridges …See all stories on this topic

Victimisation in grownups with serious mental disorder: occurrance and danger elements

To analyze the occurrance of victimisation in people with SMI, and the relationship between signs, treatment facility and indices of drug use/misuse and perpetration, in contrast with the basic population. Compared to the basic population …See all stories on this topic

Amygdala activity throughout memory recall may indicate anxiety extent

Current findings suggest left amygdala hyperactivity during negative autobiographical memory recall is a trait-like indication of anxiety and amygdala hypoactivity throughout positive recall is a state indicator of anxiety. “The amygdala affects the …See all stories on this subject