this review tried to describe the historical development of consultation-liaison (cl) psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine in the world and iran. it also aimed to present a classification of different models of patient care and service delivery in cl psychiatry. it finally provided some explanation about the status of psychosomatic medicine and cl psychiatry in germany as a different model in ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Psychiatry, 11 July 2023Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1249748

Seymour Pollack developed three categorizing definitions which provided forensic psychiatry with a logical framework for development as a subspecialty of general psychiatry. The first definition separated the body of information related to the interaction oflaw and psychiatry required by the general psychiatrist from information specific to the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. The general p...

objective: elevated amino acid homocysteine (hcy) levels and insufficient physical activity are the risk factors in alzheimer disease (ad) development. the effect of intermittent aerobic training on memory retention test and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (tbars) and superoxide dismutase (sod) levels in the dorsal hippocampus of rats which were stimulated with hcy is investigated. meth...

BACKGROUND There is no consensus regarding the optimal content of the undergraduate psychiatry curriculum as well as factors contributing to young doctors choosing a career in psychiatry. Our aim was to explore factors which had influenced psychiatry trainees' attitudes towards mental health and career choice. METHOD Qualitative in-depth interviews with 21 purposively sampled London psychiatr...

This has been a pivotal year in Canadian psychiatry. On September 29, 2009, after many years of relentless efforts and lobbying by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (CAPL), the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada finally recognized forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty in psychiatry. Together with the academies of child psychiatry and geriatric psychia...

1 Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2 Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 3 Institute of Clinical Medicine (Psychiatry), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 4 Departments of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 5 Departments of Psychiatry, South-Savonia Hospital District, Mikkel...