This research with a vulnerable clinical population, who are experiencing significant distress, gives us an important insight into whether music therapy may be helpful for patients and staff on NHS inpatient psychiatric dementia wards by reducing distress and improving wellbeing.
In this book I mention the patient who first inspired me to become a psychiatrist. He was an elderly gentleman admitted to a vascular ward for an elective repair of his aortic aneurysm.
RCPsych Article of the Month for April is from The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych) and is entitled ‘Involving patients with dementia in decisions to initiate treatment: effect on patient acceptance, satisfaction and medication prescription’ by Authors Jemima Dooley, Nick Bass, Gill Livingston and Rose McCabe.
The November International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “A systematic review of the relationship between behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) and caregiver well-being” by Alexandra Feast, Esme Moniz-Cook, Charlotte Stoner, Georgina Charlesworth, Martin Orrell.…
The September International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Associations between depression, sleep disturbance, and apolipoprotein E in the development of Alzheimer’s disease: dementia” by Shanna L.…
The July International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Risk factors for dementia diagnosis in German primary care practices” by Anke Booker, Louis EC Jacob, Michael Rapp, Jens Bohlken and Karel Kostev.…
The June International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Effectiveness of START psychological intervention in reducing abuse by dementia family carers: randomized controlled trial” by Claudia Cooper, Julie Barber, Mark Griffin, Penny Rapaport and Gill Livingston.…
The April International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Subcortical volume changes in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease.…
The March International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Healthcare resource utilization and cost in dementia: are there differences between patients screened positive for dementia with and those without a formal diagnosis of dementia in primary care in Germany?”…
The November International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Dementia and intentional and unintentional poisoning in older people: a 10 year review of hospitalization records in New South Wales, Australia” by Rebecca J.…
The September International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Discriminative power of the advanced activities of daily living (a-ADL) tool in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment in an older population” by P.…
The August International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Development of a smartphone application for the objective detection of attentional deficits in delirium” by Zoë Tieges, Antaine Stíobhairt, Katie Scott, Klaudia Suchorab, Alexander Weir, Stuart Parks, Susan Shenkin and Alasdair MacLullich.…
The April International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled “Psychotic symptoms in frontotemporal dementia: a diagnostic dilemma?” by Maria Landqvist Waldö, Lars Gustafson, Ulla Passant and Elisabet Englund.…
The March International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Awareness of memory deficits in subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease’ by Johann Lehrner, Sandra Kogler, Claus Lamm, Doris Moser, Stefanie Klug, Gisela Pusswald, Peter Dal-Bianco, Walter Pirker and Eduard Auff As the world population ages, we face sharp rises in prevalence rates for neurodegenerative diseases.…
The January International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Agitation in cognitive disorders: International Psychogeriatric Association provisional consensus clinical and research definition’ by Jeffrey Cummings, Jacobo Mintzer, Henry Brodaty, Mary Sano et al.…
International Psychogeriatrics has published a special issue on Young Onset Dementia, guest edited by Raymond Koopmans and Tor Rosness. The rising prevalence of dementia includes an increase of people with Young Onset Dementia (YOD). …
The October International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘The association of traumatic brain injury with rate of progression of cognitive and functional impairment in a population-based cohort of Alzheimer’s disease: the Cache County Dementia Progression Study’ by Mac Gilbert, Christine Snyder, Chris Corcoran, Maria C.…
The August International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Good days and bad days in dementia: a qualitative chart review of variable symptom expression’ by Kenneth Rockwood, Sherri Fay, Laura Hamilton, Elyse Ross and Paige Moorhouse.…
The June International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Mind over matter – what do we know about neuroplasticity in adults?’…
The March International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Variability between nursing homes in prevalence of antipsychotic use in patients with dementia’ by Bart C.…
The February International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘A review of neuroimaging findings of apathy in Alzheimer’s disease’ by Christos Theleritis, Antonios Politis, Kostas Siarkos and Costantine G.…
From January 2014, International Psychogeriatrics will be choosing a paper of the month. It is selected by the editorial team to point out a review or an original contribution which they think should be of great interest to most readers.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
Global sea surface temperatures are rising and have hit record high values in recent months. This potentially threatens seabirds, their prey and their habitats, both on land and at sea.
Writing was refreshing to me because I was communicating again. However, I didn’t fully understand the extent until I watched Dead Poets Society, where the late Robin Williams delivered this moving monologue. He said, “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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