November
2011 – VOL 199
NO 5
BJPsych_____________________________
The British Journal of Psychiatry
Contents
Highlights of This Issue
Sukhwinder S. Shergill
Highlights of this issue
BJP November 2011 199:A19; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.A19
EDITORIALS
Kay Redfield Jamison
Great wits and madness: more near allied?
BJP November 2011 199:351-352; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.100586
David Nutt
Low serotonergic tone and elevated risk for substance misuse
BJP November 2011 199:353-354; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.090589
Peter Lepping
Overestimating patients’ capacity
BJP November 2011 199:355-356; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.094938
Elizabeth L. Sampson,
Alistair Burns,
and Mike Richards
Improving end-of-life care for people with dementia
BJP November 2011 199:357-359; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.097030
SPECIAL ARTICLE
Peter Tyrer
A centenarian extraordinaire
BJP November 2011 199:360; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.102095
REVIEW ARTICLES
Jefter Chuma and
Prem Mahadun
Predicting the development of schizophrenia in high-risk populations:
systematic review of the predictive validity of prodromal criteria
BJP November 2011 199:361-366; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.086868
Matthias C. Angermeyer,
Anita Holzinger,
Mauro G. Carta,
and Georg Schomerus
Biogenetic explanations and public acceptance of mental illness:
systematic review of population studies
BJP November 2011 199:367-372; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085563
PAPERS
Simon Kyaga,
Paul Lichtenstein,
Marcus Boman,
Christina Hultman,
Niklas Långström,
and Mikael Landén
Creativity and mental disorder: family study of 300 000 people with
severe mental disorder
BJP November 2011 199:373-379; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085316
Stanley Zammit,
Michael J. Owen,
Jonathan Evans,
Jon Heron,
and Glyn Lewis
Cannabis, COMT and psychotic experiences
BJP November 2011 199:380-385; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.091421
Killian A. Welch,
Andrew C. Stanfield,
Andrew M. McIntosh,
Heather C. Whalley,
Dominic E. Job,
Thomas W. Moorhead,
David G. C. Owens,
Stephen M. Lawrie,
and Eve C. Johnstone
Impact of cannabis use on thalamic volume in people at familial high risk
of schizophrenia
BJP November 2011 199:386-390; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.090175
Sylvia M. L. Cox,
Chawki Benkelfat,
Alain Dagher,
J. Scott Delaney,
France Durand,
Theodore Kolivakis,
Kevin F. Casey,
and Marco Leyton
Effects of lowered serotonin transmission on cocaine-induced striatal
dopamine response: PET [11C]raclopride study in humans
BJP November 2011 199:391-397; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.084178
Kate Langley,
Joanna Martin,
Sharifah Shameem Agha,
Charlotte Davies,
Evangelia Stergiakouli,
Peter Holmans,
Nigel Williams,
Michael Owen,
Michael O’Donovan,
and Anita Thapar
Clinical and cognitive characteristics of children with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder, with and without copy number variants
BJP November 2011 199:398-403; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.092130
Sean J. Colloby,
Akshya Vasudev,
John T. O’Brien,
Michael J. Firbank,
Steve W. Parry,
and Alan J. Thomas
Relationship of orthostatic blood pressure to white matter
hyperintensities and subcortical volumes in late-life depression
BJP November 2011 199:404-410; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.090423
Yoshiharu Kim,
Atsuro Tsutsumi,
Takashi Izutsu,
Noriyuki Kawamura,
Takao Miyazaki,
and Takehiko Kikkawa
Persistent distress after psychological exposure to the Nagasaki atomic
bomb explosion
BJP November 2011 199:411-416; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085472
Vanessa Lawrence,
Kritika Samsi,
Joanna Murray,
Danielle Harari,
and Sube Banerjee
Dying well with dementia: qualitative examination of end-of-life care
BJP November 2011 199:417-422; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.093989
Andrew Page,
Richard Taylor,
David Gunnell,
Greg Carter,
Stephen Morrell,
and Graham Martin
Effectiveness of Australian youth suicide prevention initiatives
BJP November 2011 199:423-429; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.093856
SHORT REPORT
Ann Kristin Knudsen,
Max Henderson,
Samuel B. Harvey,
and Trudie Chalder
Long-term sickness absence among patients with chronic fatigue
syndrome
BJP November 2011 199:430-431; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.082974
CORRESPONDENCE
Gethin Morgan
Early intervention in anorexia nervosa
BJP November 2011 199:432; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.432
Janet Treasure and
Gerald Russell
Authors’ reply:
BJP November 2011 199:432; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.432a
William P. Tormey
Accuracy of death certification
BJP November 2011 199:432-433; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.432b
Peter Tyrer
Abortion and mental health
BJP November 2011 199:433; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.433
BOOK REVIEWS
Lisa Conlan
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story
BJP November 2011 199:434; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.095034
Simon J. R. Heyland
The Therapeutic Alliance: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice
BJP November 2011 199:434-435; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.089771
Julian C. Hughes
The Oxford Handbook of the Self
BJP November 2011 199:435; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.094706
Stephen P. Tyrer
Behavioral and Psychopharmacologic Pain Management
BJP November 2011 199:435-436; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.092536
EXTRAS
Tom Pow
The Last Vision of Angus McKay – Poems by doctors
BJP November 2011 199:354; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.093229
Joseph Kane
Batman and psychiatry – Psychiatry in the movies
BJP November 2011 199:359; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.098624
Cyrus Abbasian
Buried alive! – extra
BJP November 2011 199:397; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.095844
Nicholas Kontos,
Oliver Freudenreich,
and John Querques
Psychiatric exceptionalism – 100 words
BJP November 2011 199:429; doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.100008
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Peter Tyrer
From the Editor’s desk
BJP November 2011 199:438; doi:10.1192/bjp.199.5.438