• Clinical effectiveness and economic evaluation of treatments for anorexia nervosa in adolescents

    07 December 2007

    Professor Simon Gowers speaks about the clinical effectiveness of treatments for anorexia and the cost-effectiveness of three treatment strategies for adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

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  • Psychophysiological and behavioural characteristics of individuals comorbid for antisocial personality disorder and schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder

    07 December 2007

    This podcast concentrates on a study examining people with comorbid schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder living in the community.

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  • Interventions for reducing the use of seclusion in psychiatric facilities: review of the literature

    01 November 2007

    Stephen Elsom, Director for the Centre of Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Melbourne, Australia, talks to Dr Raj Persaud about a paper published in the October issue of the ...

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  • Longitudinal grey-matter and glutamatergic losses in first-episode schizophrenia

    01 November 2007

    Dr Raj Persaud interviews Dr Jean Théberge, Assistant-Professor based at the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph’s Health Hospital, London, Ontario (University of Western Ontario).

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  • ‘Uppers’ keep going up

    01 November 2007

    Dr Raj Persaud speaks to Professor Hamid Ghodse (Director for the International Centre for Drug Policy) about an editorial in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry which ...

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  • Treatment of social phobia through pure self-help and therapist-augmented self-help

    22 October 2007

    Dr Raj Persaud talks to Dr Ronald Rapee about this study published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry looking at the efficacy of pure self-help through ...

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  • Genetic risk of depression and stress-induced negative affect in daily life

    22 October 2007

    This podcast focuses on a study looking at the genetic liability of depression in a study of 279 female twin pairs published in the September issue of the British Journal ...

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  • Insight, psychopathology and global functioning in schizophrenia in urban Malawi

    21 October 2007

    This podcast focuses on a study done at St John of God Community Mental Health Service in Mzuzu, Malawi and investigates the relationship between insight, psychopathology and functioning in 60 ...

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  • Black and minority ethnic people more likely to be sectioned

    04 September 2007

    Podcast about a systematic review looking at 'Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983'.

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  • Increased risk of suicide in hot weather

    04 September 2007

    Dr Lisa Page a Senior Registrar at the Maudsley Hospital and Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London talks about the findings from the paper published in the August ...

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