Media portrayals don’t help misconceptions about disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. So what do these terms actually mean?
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Current trials suggest MDMA could used to treat psychiatric disorders as a prescription medicine by 2021. But there remain a number of unresolved patient / doctor issues to be considered.
Increasing the public’s awareness of mental health issues rings hollow when vital services are crumbling.
Many people have criticized Donald Trump’s mental health. More than two dozen psychiatrists weighed in from afar, and another has briefed members of Congress. Here’s why that might not be good.
Recently announced changes to private health insurance reinforce the primacy of hospitals for mental health issues. This is despite many inquiries recommending better community mental-health care.
One person with a given diagnosis can be entirely different, symptomatically speaking, from another with the same diagnosis.
There are several problems with the recently released guidelines for diagnosing autism. But the fundamental issue is that we’re striving for diagnosis first, and help later.
The symptoms of ‘schizophrenia’ are very real, but experts are looking for a better way to define them.
There’s a fierce debate about whether it’s ethical for mental health professionals to diagnose politicians they haven’t personally examined.
Lay workers are being trained to help Zimbabwe manage mental issues in communities. So far it’s proving successful.
The latest federal budget leaves mental health chronically underfunded, with inequitable access to services, and without a clear national strategy.
ECT is a highly effective treatment for severe depression and psychosis, so why does it still have a bad rap?
There is typically no fever, no broken bone, no lesion to examine under a microscope when evaluating mental illness. Diagnosing disorders therefore is hard. A new way to classify disorders could help.
The causes of motor neurone disease and schizophrenia have something important in common.
Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
Not even psychiatrists themselves can agree on what ‘mental illness’ is.
Some people have terrifying delusions they are infested with insects, spiders or even small animals. But help is available.
Recent Queensland reforms – due to take effect in March 2017 – do not include legislative safeguards for a certain group of people with mental illness.
People given taurine had significantly improved overall mental health symptoms, including those of psychosis, compared to those given placebo.
Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare medical condition where hairs the person has eaten become tangled and trapped in their stomach.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry, UCL
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Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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PhD Researcher, Cardiff University
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry, UCL
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney; University of Canberra
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Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford