{"title":"Genes in context: path to more precise risk prediction in psychiatry?","authors":"Peter J. Na, Robert H. Pietrzak, Joel Gelernter","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.151","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This guest editorial describes the importance of converging genetics and psychosocial epidemiology research methods to understand the biopsychosocial etiology of psychiatric phenotypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142448294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hugo D. Critchley, Derek K. Tracy, Gin S. Malhi, Laith Alexander, David S. Baldwin, Jonathan Cavanagh, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Andrea Cipriani, Saeed Farooq, Angela Hassiotis, Oliver Howes, Sameer Jauhar, Stephen M. Lawrie, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Anne Lingford-Hughes, James H. MacCabe, Ismail Memon, Ciaran Mulholland, Musa Sami, Kapil Sayal, Rohit Shankar, Lindsey Sinclair, Oliver Sparasci, Ekkehart F. A. Staufenberg, Lucy E. Stirland, Paul R. A. Stokes, Charlotte Wilson Jones, Peter W. R. Woodruff, Allan H. Young
{"title":"Academic psychiatry is everyone's business","authors":"Hugo D. Critchley, Derek K. Tracy, Gin S. Malhi, Laith Alexander, David S. Baldwin, Jonathan Cavanagh, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Andrea Cipriani, Saeed Farooq, Angela Hassiotis, Oliver Howes, Sameer Jauhar, Stephen M. Lawrie, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Anne Lingford-Hughes, James H. MacCabe, Ismail Memon, Ciaran Mulholland, Musa Sami, Kapil Sayal, Rohit Shankar, Lindsey Sinclair, Oliver Sparasci, Ekkehart F. A. Staufenberg, Lucy E. Stirland, Paul R. A. Stokes, Charlotte Wilson Jones, Peter W. R. Woodruff, Allan H. Young","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This editorial considers the value and nature of academic psychiatry by asking what defines the specialty and psychiatrists as academics. We frame academic psychiatry as a way of thinking that benefits clinical services and discuss how to inspire the next generation of academics.</p>","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"230 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142440221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jemma Hawkins, Lindsey A. Hines, Chris Bonell, Matthew Hickman, Linda Adara, Julia Townson, Rebecca Cannings-John, Laurence Moore, James White
{"title":"Association of volatile substance, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrate use with mental health in UK adolescents","authors":"Jemma Hawkins, Lindsey A. Hines, Chris Bonell, Matthew Hickman, Linda Adara, Julia Townson, Rebecca Cannings-John, Laurence Moore, James White","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.128","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Background</span><p>‘Inhalants’ have been associated with poorer mental health in adolescence, but little is known of associations with specific types of inhalants.</p><span>Aims</span><p>We aimed to investigate associations of using volatile substances, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrates with mental health problems in adolescence.</p><span>Method</span><p>We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using data from 13- to 14-year-old adolescents across England and Wales collected between September 2019 and March 2020. Multilevel logistic regression examined associations between lifetime use of volatile substances, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrates with self-reported symptoms of probable depression, anxiety, conduct disorder and auditory hallucinations.</p><span>Results</span><p>Of the 6672 adolescents in the study, 5.1% reported use of nitrous oxide, 4.9% volatile solvents and 0.1% alkyl nitrates. After accounting for multiple testing, adolescents who had used volatile solvents were significantly more likely to report probable depressive (odds ratio = 4.59, 95% CI 3.58, 5.88), anxiety (odds ratio = 3.47, 95% CI 2.72, 4.43) or conduct disorder (odds ratio = 7.52, 95% CI 5.80, 9.76) and auditory hallucinations (odds ratio = 5.35, 95% CI 4.00, 7.17) than those who had not. Nitrous oxide use was significantly associated with probable depression and conduct disorder but not anxiety disorder or auditory hallucinations. Alkyl nitrate use was rare and not associated with mental health outcomes. Adjustment for use of other inhalants, tobacco and alcohol resulted in marked attenuation but socioeconomic disadvantage had little effect.</p><span>Conclusion</span><p>To our knowledge, this study provides the first general population evidence that volatile solvents and nitrous oxide are associated with probable mental health disorders in adolescence. These findings require replication, ideally with prospective designs.</p>","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142431377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira","authors":"Naomar Almeida-Filho, Lilia Schwarcz, Jair Mari","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Twenty years ago, the British Journal of Psychiatry published an editorial regarding racism and psychiatry. Three decades ago, the journal published a lecture by Professor Michael Sheperd about Kraepelin's contributions to racist degeneration theories. A century ago, Albert Einstein visited the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, where he was hosted by Juliano Moreira [1872–1933], one of the most distinguished Brazilian scientists of that time. The only son of a former enslaved woman, he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of scientific psychiatry in Brazil. Moreira may have been a case of ‘exceptional racism’, the strategy of praising outstanding people from oppressed groups as a way of denying or covering up processes of structural racism.</p>","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142431379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New guidance for self-harm: an opportunity not to be missed: commentary, House.","authors":"Allan House","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"82 1","pages":"339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paolo Fusar-Poli,Ilaria Bonoldi,Natascia Brondino,Umberto Provenzani,Pierluigi Politi,Stefano Damiani
{"title":"Commentary on 'The Darkness': echoes from Leonard Cohen - Extra.","authors":"Paolo Fusar-Poli,Ilaria Bonoldi,Natascia Brondino,Umberto Provenzani,Pierluigi Politi,Stefano Damiani","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"6 1","pages":"351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The problem with mental health awareness.","authors":"Lucy Foulkes","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"17 1","pages":"337-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faraz Mughal,Fiona M Burton,Harriet Fletcher,Karen Lascelles,Rory C O'Connor,Sarah Rae,Alex B Thomson,Nav Kapur
{"title":"New guidance for self-harm: an opportunity not to be missed: commentary, Mughal et al.","authors":"Faraz Mughal,Fiona M Burton,Harriet Fletcher,Karen Lascelles,Rory C O'Connor,Sarah Rae,Alex B Thomson,Nav Kapur","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"28 1","pages":"340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Kumari.","authors":"Veena Kumari","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.74","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"68 1","pages":"341-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurosyphilis and a Nobel Prize: psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg's pyrotherapy - Psychiatry in history.","authors":"Madhusudan Dalvi","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"83 1","pages":"350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142436031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}