Background There is no consensus regarding the optimal content of the undergraduate psychiatry curriculum as well as factors contributing to young doctors choosing a career in psychiatry.
A. Appleton+3 more
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Barriers and Solutions to the Adoption of Clinical Tools for Computational Psychiatry [PDF]
Computational psychiatry is a field aimed at developing formal models of information processing in the human brain, and how alterations in this processing can lead to clinical phenomena. Despite significant progress in the development of tasks and how to model them, computational psychiatry methodologies have yet to be incorporated into large-scale ...
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Re-Coopering anti-psychiatry: David Cooper, revolutionary critic of psychiatry [PDF]
This article offers an introduction to David Cooper (1931–86), who coined the term ‘anti-psychiatry’, and, it is argued here, has not so far received the scholarly attention that he deserves. The first section presents his life in context.
Chapman, Adrian
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Behavior quantification as the missing link between fields: Tools for digital psychiatry and their role in the future of neurobiology [PDF]
The great behavioral heterogeneity observed between individuals with the same psychiatric disorder and even within one individual over time complicates both clinical practice and biomedical research. However, modern technologies are an exciting opportunity to improve behavioral characterization.
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Attitudes towards psychiatry amongst medical and nursing students in Singapore
Background A shortage of specialists in psychiatry, both in terms of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is evident worldwide. While there are multiple factors leading to an individual’s decision to specialize in psychiatry, the individual’s perceptions
Ellaisha Samari+10 more
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Past and current concepts of “Anti-Psychiatry”: Does it have a future?
Anti psychiatry can better be called Anti Establishment Psychiatry has been propounded be cause of the differences it had with the establishment of Psychiatry of those days for lack of humanitarian approach and not considering the social causation, and ...
Krishnamurthy Kavirayni
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Towards precise resting-state fMRI biomarkers in psychiatry: synthesizing developments in transdiagnostic research, dimensional models of psychopathology, and normative neurodevelopment [PDF]
Searching for biomarkers has been a chief pursuit of the field of psychiatry. Toward this end, studies have catalogued candidate resting-state biomarkers in nearly all forms of mental disorder. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that these biomarkers lack specificity, limiting their capacity to yield clinical impact. We discuss three avenues of
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On the Use of Metaphor Translation in Psychiatry [PDF]
Providing mental healthcare to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) remains a pressing problem within psychiatry. Because the majority of individuals trained in providing psychiatric care are English speakers, the quality of mental healthcare given to LEP patients is significantly lower than that provided for English speakers.
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Objective: To assess the attitude of MBBS student toward concept and practice of psychiatry between groups of students exposed to psychiatry rotation versus those not yet exposed to.
Raaj Konwar+3 more
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How to teach psychiatry to medical undergraduates in India?: A model
Psychiatry is not considered important by most medical students. But knowledge of psychiatry is essential for all doctors as psychiatric problems are prevalent in the population either as part of other physical illnesses or independently.
S M Manohari+2 more
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