Adult psychiatry

Adult neurogenesis: implications for psychiatry.

The fields of psychiatry and neuroscience have formed a close relationship over the past decades. Hypotheses about the neurochemical basis of behavioral dysfunction helped in part to develop promising treatments for several psychiatric disorders, including depression, addiction and schizophrenia. In addition to advancing the neurochemical approach to psychiatric disorders, the relationship betw...

Informed consent in adult psychiatry.

This article addresses some of the groundwork of informed consent in people with mental illness whose decision-making capacity has obviously been compromised. This article examines four crucial aspects in particular, namely: i) the main elements of informed consent; ii) difficulties pertaining to psychiatric illnesses; iii) the effect of psychiatric disorders on the patient's capability; iv) ho...

A Lifespan Approach: Faculties of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and General Adult Psychiatry Joint Annual Scientific Conference

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

God Psychiatry Versus Good Psychiatry

Since psychiatry often requires an intimate, informal dialogue between patient and doctor, can psychiatrists afford to retain the remote, omnipotent image which they have inherited?