Mark Agius

..We look forward to further studies on large groups of patients...

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..On this basis, it may be reasonable to include Borderline Personality Disorder within a broadly described bipolar spectrum. New details of the common Neurobiological mechanisms continue to emerge...

..This short Paper presents Clare College Cambridge, its history and its Medical and other Traditions to the participants in this symposium...

..Treatment of prodromal psychosis continues to present a number of risks; therefore the decision to treat ultimately must depend on the symptoms presented by the individual...

..Hence the question arises as to whether neurogenesis is a class effect which relates to them all. We here present a literature search which we have carried out to establish this...

..The reasons for this are described. The Implications for services are that, if outcomes are to be optimised in the treatment of schizophrenia, then assertive treatment in the community needs to be given for as long as possible...

..We aimed to conduct a review of the current literature to establish the appropriateness of several recent major clinical studies being used as the basis for clinical guidelines...

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..To test whether there are differences between the three year outcomes of different ethnic groups represented in the patient population of an Early Intervention service for Psychosis...

..The setting up of such a service in Luton, Bedfordshire is then described, and its first results are assessed...

..The aim of this retrospective study is to gain a better understanding of how well South Asian patients engage with standard psycho-social interventions...

..However oestrogen has never been used in 'at ultra high risk mental states', perhaps because of concern regarding side effects...

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..Variation in rates would have implications for the aetiology of psychosis. The aim was to determine the variation in psychosis prevalence in different areas of a city...

..We also argue for the use of appropriate rating scales, which measure both the number and the intensity of symptoms and for computer base notes in order to facilitate regular audit...

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..bipolar disorder is frequently misdiagnosed or diagnosed late. Misdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder can have serious implications for prognosis and treatment of this condition...

..Hence we have attempted to assess the types of treatment received by patients under our care, and the difficulties associated with the treatment of this illness...

..From these we deduce the reasons why collaborative care may offer better treatment outcomes than the issuing of guidelines to GPs...

..In order for these to be effective as possible, correct diagnosis, consideration of the underlying neurobiology and an appropriate provision of healthcare services must be ensured...

..The intention was to provide thebest possible care or patients with a first episode of psychosis. Recently however, long term studies over five years have suggested that early gains may be lost...

..The development of an early intervention service in Luton, Bedfordshire is then described. Subsequent articles will describe the three year outcomes of this service, compared with treatment as usual in a community mental health team...

..These results suggest that an ad-hoc early intervention team is more effective than standard community mental health team in treating psychotic illness...

..We wished to see whether these findings were reflected in the outcomes of depression treatment in our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)...

..These results suggest that an ad-hoc Early Intervention Team is more effective than standard Community Mental Health Team in treating psychotic illness...

..guidelines are important to the effective implementation of modern psychiatry...

..there is a need for outcome measurement in Psychiatry...

..We aim to describe the staging model of schizophrenia, show the neuroimaging and clinical evidence for it, and discuss its implications for treatment...

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..This project is to show what depression treatments are used by Bedford East Community Mental Health Team (BECMHT) and therefore identify whether some of these patients could be appropriately managed in Primary care...

..The admission and relapse rate of these patients was markedly reduced by working assertively with them in the community...

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..Overall we found that augmentation with mirtazepine resulted in better outcomes in terms of both discharge rates and in terms of reduction in suicidality than augmentation with atypical antipsychotics...

..We propose a set of standards which are evidence based and which are correlated with the recent WHO declaration on Mental Health in Europe...

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..Further insight into their link and interactions would facilitate diagnoses of these conditions, as well as improve treatment strategies when they are presented co-morbidly...

..Here we review the different opinions which have been expressed regarding this issue and consider whether this is the appropriate time to include 'Psychosis Risk Syndrome' as an independently listed psychiatric diagnosis...

..This is a summary and transcription of a talk given to ISPS Slovenia in Bled in 2006. It assesses the research evidence for a biological basis for psychological treatments...

..The results of this program are interpreted in terms of theory of Adult Learning. It was found that the Leonardo EU program was useful in teaching Community Mental Health...

..Atypical drugs can also prevent or reverse the effects of haloperidol induced toxicity. The mechanism involves the inverse agonism of 5HT receptors, particularly those of the 2A subset, but the situation is considerably more complicated...

..She was diagnosed with non-familial early-onset Alzheimer's Disease (EOAD) and started on 8mg daily of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor Galantamine...

..We explore the mechanisms of incontinence in Schizophrenia and those due to Clozapine. This case highlights the need to inquire about incontinence in patients with schizophrenia prior to prescribing clozapine...

..This case emphasises the therapeutic value for certain patients of focussing therapy on the non-psychotic symptoms once the acute psychotic state has been managed...

..A case report of a patient and the work of her case manager as well as the case manager's diary (Gruber 2007) and the Croatian model of case management is presented in this article...

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..We present two cases where a choice had to be made as to whether to prescribe Olanzapine during pregnancy, with different results...

..The paper will review the development of these guidelines, describe them, and suggest outcome measures for the treatment of first and early episodes...

..Among the conclusions reached, the phenomenon of "dead father" is emphasized as one of the main factors in the onset and development of schizophrenic disorder/disturbance...

..The aim was to investigate whether this approach would enable parents of patients with schizophrenia to re-establish their psychic balance and the balance of the whole family system by reducing high expressed emotion...