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Schizophrenia: Genetics and Beyond
Author: Michael Owen, M.D., Ph.D., Cardiff University, United Kingdom
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by Allen Frances, M.D.: DSM5 in Distress: The DSM's impact on mental health practice and research - блог, посвященный проблемам диагностики в психиатрии.

DSM - (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders — Руководство по диагностике и статистике психических расстройств) — принятая в США многоосевая нозологическая система. Разрабатывается и публикуется Американской Психиатрической Ассоциацией (АПА) (American Psychiatric Association, APA). В настоящее время психиатры руководствуются четвертой версией.

Allen Frances, M.D., was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and of the department of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. He is currently professor emeritus at Duke.

A growing body of research from cognitive psychology and neuroscience which demonstrates the very real potential for mistakes, despite the fact that for years, fingerprint experts have claimed that if their methods are used correctly, their error rate is zero.

Заставляет задуматься о точности экспертного мнения и в других областях знаний.

The man with the hole in his head - one of the most famous case studies in brain science - интересная аудиопрограмма про знаменитого Финеаса Гейджа (BBC HealthCheck).

Antipsychotic drugs could shrink patients' brains -David Cyranoski, Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.75

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Are Antipsychotics Overprescribed? How much is too much? Drs. Larry Culpepper and Nassir Ghaemi discuss the increasing rate of antipsychotic prescribing. ("Не слишком ли часто врачи прописывают нейролептики? И сколько это - слишком часто? Мнение докторов Ларри Кулпеппера и Нассира Гхэми.") Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, February 201

Henry Cockburn describes his experiences of schizophrenia as he emerges from six years of living in mental hospitals. While his father Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning foreign correspondent, talks about his battle to find a future for his son who was diagnosed with this cruel mental illness at the age of 20.

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Professor Peter Tyrer, editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, argues his profession practises 'mental colonialism' on people with long-term, chronic mental illness that's resistant to treatment. His approach is called Nidotherapy -- Nido meaning 'nest' -- focused on changing a person's environment not their personality. And, Jenny relates her poignant identity struggles and triumphs of being a long term 'service user'.

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