Depressive and anxiety symptoms are often experienced together, both in people who are otherwise healthy, and in those with mental illness. They share a similar heritability: a family history of depression makes you more susceptible to anxiety, and vice versa.

An interesting 100 word article by Alexandra Pitman in this month’s British Journal of Psychiatry. Here it is in full:

The concept of ‘romantic suicide’ emerged in the 1770s following the suicide of the teenage English poet Thomas Chatterton, memorialised in Goethe’s 1774…

Finding the self in the brain

We have just published an article in NeuroImage that explores ideas related to the self and how they are…

In part one I considered the DSM-5 in light of the problems inherent in diagnostic classification. In part two I reflect on how changes to the DSM-5 have affected my clinical practice.

In this first post I consider the DSM-5 in light of the problems inherent in diagnostic classification. In part two I reflect on how changes to the DSM-5 have affected my clinical practice.