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Category Archives: disorders
Epigenetic clue to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
There’s an interesting article and an editorial in the New Scientist about epigenetics a subject highlighted in a previous post linked to a Radio 4 broadcast. The New Scientist article addresses the issue that whilst monozygotic twins share genetic material the risk … Continue reading
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Inspiration
At the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Annual Postgraduate Medical Education Conference last week. The Dean (Robert Howard) was talking about the need for inspiring teaching and recommended that we start by thinking about who inspired us. Looking for some resources … Continue reading
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Friday video
Only one or two new videos this Friday as I’m busy updating the site with new videos and content. This first is from Vimeo and is a letter written and narrated by a mother longing for her child. It’s a … Continue reading
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Eating disorder video posted
Whilst the video content isn’t new, having previously been available as a RealMedia file on the old teaching website this has been re-edited, reformatted and some content added before being posted on Vimeo. It sets out the story of ‘Beccy’ … Continue reading
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Materials of interest
Friday is the day I usually try and trawl the interweb to try and find resources of interest for teaching or just for interest. The first item is a short animated film about panic that manages to convey the impact … Continue reading
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NHS reforms
The Guardian has been hosting a series of ‘live’ blogs on the NHS reforms and yesterday was the turn of mental health. Participants included Dinesh Bhugra (President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), Tim Kendall (Joint Director of the National … Continue reading
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New video by SSC student
Each year I offer medical students the opportunity to make a teaching video to illustrate something that they feel would aid the teaching of psychiatry to medical student as part of a Student Selected Component (SSC). This year Matthew Higgins … Continue reading
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The impact of mental illness
We tend to forget about families. In times of crisis it’s necessarily the patient who comes first. We are probably good about thinking of the carers, this quite correctly has been a focus for services for some time, but what … Continue reading
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PTSD in rescuers
We all know of the consequences of experiencing major trauma first hand. PTSD has even become an ‘acceptable’ mental illness albeit with concerns about its subversion and overuse due to litigation. An article in Outside magazine describes the experience of … Continue reading
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Personal stigma
When we think of depression it is usually in the context of the negative views held by people, specifically other people, about mental illness. Yet perhaps one of the most corrosive forms of depression can be seen when our own … Continue reading
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