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Featured article: Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide - perspectives from Dutch psychiatrists

This interesting article examines the experiences of Dutch psychiatrists with euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) requests by psychiatric patients.

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Content type: Research article
| 17 July 2019

Association between pharmacotherapy for ADHD in offspring and depression-related specialty care visits by parents with a history of depression

Authors: Qi Chen, Henrik Larsson, Catarina Almqvist, Zheng Chang, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian M. D’Onofrio and Jonas F. Ludvigsson
Content type: Research article
| 17 July 2019

Psychiatric symptoms and risk factors in adults born preterm with very low birthweight or born small for gestational age at term

Authors: Astrid M. W. Lærum, Solveig Klæbo Reitan, Kari Anne I. Evensen, Stian Lydersen, Ann-Mari Brubakk, Jon Skranes and Marit S. Indredavik
Content type: Debate
| 16 July 2019

Between being healthy and becoming comatose: the neuropsychiatric landscape of critical illness with a focus on delirium, DSM-5 and ICD-11

Authors: Jan N. M. Schieveld, Emma H. C. W. van de Riet and Jacqueline J. M. H. Strik
Content type: Research article
| 12 July 2019

Severity in sustained attention impairment and clozapine-resistant schizophrenia: a retrospective study

Authors: An-Sheng Lin, Hung-Yu Chan, Ying-Chieh Peng and Wei J. Chen
Content type: Research article
| 12 July 2019

The effectiveness of virtual reality for people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: a meta-analysis

Authors: Oksoo Kim, Yanghee Pang and Jung-Hee Kim

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| 2 July 2014

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Authors: Martin A Katzman, Pierre Bleau, Pierre Blier, Pratap Chokka, Kevin Kjernisted and Michael Van Ameringen
Content type: Research article
| 30 December 2010

Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Authors: Amelia Gulliver, Kathleen M Griffiths and Helen Christensen
Content type: Research article
| 9 December 2016

Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

Authors: Helen Brooks, Kelly Rushton, Sandra Walker, Karina Lovell and Anne Rogers
Content type: Research article
| 18 August 2008

A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Authors: Michael King, Joanna Semlyen, Sharon See Tai, Helen Killaspy, David Osborn, Dmitri Popelyuk and Irwin Nazareth
Content type: Research article
| 28 May 2016

Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study

Authors: Billy C. Fogden, Stuart D. M. Thomas, Michael Daffern and James R. P. Ogloff

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BMC Psychiatry is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

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Darren Byrne, BioMed Central

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Matthew Hickey, BioMed Central

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Cathy Barr, The Toronto Western Hospital
Ruth Benca, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Linda Davies, University of Manchester
Secondo Fassino, Turin University
Seena Fazel, University of Oxford
Morten Hesse, University of Aarhus
Sharon Lawn, Flinders University
Ute Lewitzka, Technische Universität Dresden
Joanne Ryan, Monash University
Florian Seemüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Wei Wang, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Joanne Ryan, Section Editor

Dr. Joanne Ryan is a genetic epidemiologist who leads the Dementia Research Program in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She joined the editorial board of BMC Psychiatry as an Associate Editor in 2014 and became a Section Editor in 2016

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Association between pharmacotherapy for ADHD in offspring and depression-related specialty care visits by parents with a history of depression

Psychiatric symptoms and risk factors in adults born preterm with very low birthweight or born small for gestational age at term

Between being healthy and becoming comatose: the neuropsychiatric landscape of critical illness with a focus on delirium, DSM-5 and ICD-11

Severity in sustained attention impairment and clozapine-resistant schizophrenia: a retrospective study

The effectiveness of virtual reality for people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: a meta-analysis

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study

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Data Support Services pilot

BMC Series blog

An Interview with BMC Materials Section Editor, Professor Wenguo Cui

What are the most effective interventions to improve physical performance in pre-frail and frail adults? It’s surprisingly hard to tell.

EULAR 2019: highlights from the annual conference

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