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Showing 1 to 20 of 931 for “"PSYCHIATRY"”.
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Computational Psychiatry - Neuropsychological Bayesian reinforcement learning
Cognitive science draws inspiration from a myriad of disciplines, and has become increasingly reliant on computational methods. In particular, theories of learning, operant conditioning and decision making have shown a natural synergy with statistical learning algorithms. This offers a unique …
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Essays in the philosophy of psychiatry
… and epistemological issues that arise in psychiatry, with particular attention paid to anti-psychiatric concerns. In Chapter 1, I consider three versions of anti-realism about psychiatric illness. I argue that Szasz's version of anti-realism should be rejected because it rests on a …
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Ethical and Useful Machine Learning for Psychiatry
Contains fulltext : 319733.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Aspects of culture in South African psychiatry
… in psychiatric practice were explored in a psychiatry department of a liberal South African university. Observation of ward-rounds in a psychiatric casualty (emergency) facility over six months revealed that, as elsewhere in the world, a major cultural factor influencing clinicians is the …
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Risk and prediction of violent crime in forensic psychiatry
… factors for recidivistic violence in forensic psychiatry. Simple historical risk factors describing behaviour have as good predictive accuracy as complex clinical risk assessment instruments.
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Nursing in secure and forensic psychiatry: contexts, contributions and concepts
This thesis details a body of empirical knowledge about issues key to the effective delivery of forensic and secure psychiatric care and treatment: differentiation between firesetters, tobacco smoking in secure psychiatric care, prevalence and management of violence and aggression, medication …
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Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940
… beyond the asylum to consider the development of psychiatry in French Indochina as the product of everyday exchanges between lay people and experts. Drawing on archival research conducted over two years in Vietnam and France - including hundreds of patient case files - I trace the movements of …
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Advancing Precision Medicine in Psychiatry: Genetic Insights into Antidepressant Treatment Outcomes
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder with substantial interindividual variability in antidepressant treatment response and tolerability. Genetic variation, particularly in pharmacokinetic genes such as CYP2C19 (drug metabolizing enzyme) and ABCB1 (encoding the …
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Mental Health and Human Minds: Some Theoretical Criteria for Clinical Psychiatry
When it comes to the topic of mental illness, there are three broad areas of concern that are of interest to all of us as human beings—and to the theorists, researchers, and clinicians who wish to offer help—besides knowing what our symptoms are. First, we might be interested in finding out some …
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Implementing a standardized EHR-integrated controlled substance agreement in outpatient psychiatry
Problem: There is a high likelihood of abuse, misuse, dependency, diversion, and other adverse events among patients who were prescribed controlled substances. In the psychiatric setting, controlled substances include benzodiazepines, stimulants, and sedative-hypnotics. In most psychiatric …
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Whose gender? Whose identity? Trans medicine, psychiatry, and the symbolic order
… from gender/sex norms, shows that sexology and psychiatry have been central in producing and regulating these norms. Specifically, diagnoses including Homosexuality, Disorders of Sexual Development (intersex conditions), and Transsexualism have been instrumental in defining the purportedly …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdicts. We, further, assessed whether there would be a difference in the relative influence of MDs and PhD expert witnesses. Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with …
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Does autism merit belief? : Developing an account of scientific realism for psychiatry
The PhD outlines criteria under which a psychiatric classification merits belief and, as a case study, establishes that autism merits belief. Three chapters respond to anti-realist arguments, three chapters establish conditions under which psychiatric classifications merit belief. Chapter one …
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Pediatric Psychiatry Inpatients' Perspectives of Aggression Management: Discernment in the Doorway
Aggressive behavior is common on psychiatry inpatient units (Bonner et al., 2002). Seclusion rooms and restraints used as interventions for patients’ aggressive behaviour may have the consequence of being traumatizing for patients (O’Brien & Cole, 2004). The voices of many stakeholders involved in …
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Neurochemical modulation of affective and behavioural control: Models and applications for psychiatry
Impairments in emotional reactivity and behavioural flexibility are pervasive across disparate psychiatric conditions as traditionally defined. Here, I provide new evidence on how these processes are altered by neuromodulators in humans, with a primary focus on serotonin (5- HT; …
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