Highlights of this issue:

Kimberlie Dean

Highlights of this issue
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. A6. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIALS:

Cross-Disorder Phenotype Group of the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium, Nick Craddock, Kenneth Kendler, Michael Neale, John Nurnberger, Shaun Purcell, Marcella Rietschel, Roy Perlis, Susan L. Santangelo, Thomas Schulze, Jordan W. Smoller, and Anita Thapar

Dissecting the phenotype in genome-wide association studies of psychiatric illness
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 97-99. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anita Thapar and Michael Rutter

Do prenatal risk factors cause psychiatric disorder? Be wary of causal claims
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 100-101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Mike Slade, Dorota Jagielska, and Sonia Johnson

Residential alternatives to acute psychiatric hospital admission: systematic review
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 109-117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Data supplement]  

SPECIAL ARTICLE:

Catherine J. Harmer, Guy M. Goodwin, and Philip J. Cowen

Why do antidepressants take so long to work? A cognitive neuropsychological model of antidepressant drug action
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 102-108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PAPERS:

Arnstein Mykletun, Ottar Bjerkeset, Simon Øverland, Martin Prince, Michael Dewey, and Robert Stewart

Levels of anxiety and depression as predictors of mortality: the HUNT study
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 118-125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mao-Sheng Ran, Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan, Eric Yu-Hai Chen, Wen-Jun Mao, Shi-Hui Hu, Cui-Ping Tang, Fu-Rong Lin, and Yeates Conwell

Differences in mortality and suicidal behaviour between treated and never-treated people with schizophrenia in rural China
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 126-131. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jari Lahti, Katri Raïkkönen, Ulla Sovio, Jouko Miettunen, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Anneli Pouta, Anja Taanila, Matti Joukamaa, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, and Juha Veijola

Early-life origins of schizotypal traits in adulthood
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 132-137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Data supplement]  

Jessica R. Grisham, Tracy M. Anderson, Richie Poulton, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Gavin Andrews

Childhood neuropsychological deficits associated with adult obsessive–compulsive disorder
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 138-141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander C. McFarlane and Miranda Van Hooff

Impact of childhood exposure to a natural disaster on adult mental health: 20-year longitudinal follow-up study
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 142-148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Data supplement]  

Mika Kivimäki, G. David Batty, Archana Singh-Manoux, Hermann Nabi, Séverine Sabia, Adam G. Tabak, Tasnime N. Akbaraly, Jussi Vahtera, Michael G. Marmot, and Markus Jokela

Association between common mental disorder and obesity over the adult life course
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 149-155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patric Lundberg, Elizabeth Cantor-Graae, Godfrey Rukundo, Schola Ashaba, and Per-Olof Östergren

Urbanicity of place of birth and symptoms of psychosis, depression and anxiety in Uganda
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 156-162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmad Khundakar, Christopher Morris, Arthur Oakley, William McMeekin, and Alan J. Thomas

Morphometric analysis of neuronal and glial cell pathology in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in late-life depression
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 163-169. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Garry R. Barton, Jo Hodgekins, Miranda Mugford, Peter B. Jones, Tim Croudace, and David Fowler

Measuring the benefits of treatment for psychosis: validity and responsiveness of the EQ–5D
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 170-177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correspondence:

Sing Lee, Adley Tsang, and Wan-jun Guo

The Composite International Diagnostic Interview in low- and middle-income countries
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 178. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zachary Steel and Derrick Silove

Authors' reply
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 178-179. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy J. Crow

BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and the affective component
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 179. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Todd Lencz, Robert H. Lipsky, Pamela DeRosse, Katherine E. Burdick, David Goldman, Colin Hodgkinson, John M. Kane, and Anil K. Malhotra

Authors' reply
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 179-180. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Navendu Gaur and Sandeep Grover

Outcome of group psychoeducation for stabilised bipolar disorders
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 180. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesc Colom and Eduard Vieta

Authors' reply
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 180-181. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Angela J. Taft and Lyndsey Watson

Abortion and mental health: established facts reconsidered
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 181. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, and Joseph M. Boden

Authors' reply
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 181-182. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections:

Corrections
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 182. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book reviews:

Caroline Jacob

Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians: Countertransference in Forensic Settings
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 183. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ian Reid

Before Prozac. The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 183-184. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sanjay K. Khurmi

Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 184. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Phillipa Hay

What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Food and Weight Issues
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 184-185. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Tomkins

Diagnosing Genius. The Life and Death of Beethoven
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 185. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dieneke Hubbeling

Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 185-186. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Extras:

Peter Byrne

Paging Dr Love - psychiatry in the movies
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 117. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernice Knight

My prison experience - in 100 words
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 141. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ron Charach

Psychiatrists on the Subway - poems by doctors
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 155. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fiona Subotsky

In a Glass Darkly (1872), J. Sheridan LeFanu — psychiatrists in 19th-century fiction
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 162. [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the Editor's desk:

Peter Tyrer

From the Editor's desk
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 v. 195, p. 188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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