Psychiatric disorders place a considerable healthcare burden on South African society. Incorporating genetic technologies into future treatment plans offers a potential mechanism to reduce this burden. This review focuses on psychiatric genetic research that has been performed in South African populations with regards to obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Prelimi...

BACKGROUND Today the availability of specialists is limited for psychiatric patients in rural areas, especially during psychiatric emergencies. To overcome this challenge, the University Hospital of North Norway has implemented a new decentralised on-call system in psychiatric emergencies, by which psychiatrists are accessible by videoconference 24/7. In September 2011, the new on-call system w...

1Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia; 2Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Richlands, Australia; 3National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 4Centre for Integrated Register-based Research, CIRRAU, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 5The Lundbeck Foundation Initia...