Use of Anticonvulsants in Psychiatry: Recent Advances

Recent advances in neurology and psychiatry.

Recent Advances in Hemophilia Gene Therapy

Heterogeneous loss of function mutations at F8 and F9 genes causes X-linked recessive bleeding disorders, hemophilia A (HA) and hemophilia B (HB), respectively. HA is clinically indistinguishable from HB and accounts for more than 80% of hemophilia cases; the former affects 1/5000 and the latter 1/25000 male births worldwide. In Iran, it is estimated that around 4300 HA and 900 HB patients are ...

The relevance to psychiatry of recent advances in functional imaging.

The relevance of recent advances in psychopharmacology for social psychiatry.

Psychopharmacology is a large and wide topic ranging from the molecular biology of centrally-active molecules to the social and economic aspects of psychotropic drug usage. Psychopharmacology and social psychiatry are complementary and synergistic, particularly with respect to treatments for the mentally ill. Accordingly, I have concentrated on the topic of drug treatments and their relevance t...

IN RE VIEW Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Con tent: The suc cess ful in tro duc tion of ev i dence-based prac tice into psy chi a try re quires the ac qui si tion of new skills by cli ni cians. It is also im por tant that pol icy state ments that aim to be ev i dence-based, such as clin i cal prac tice guide lines, use rig or ous meth ods to syn the size the pri mary ev i dence and do not over look its lim i ta tions. One re sult of th...