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Psychiatrists warn of ‘severe consequences’ after Victoria cuts funding for hospital placements

Exclusive: Junior doctor roles in mental health at Melbourne hospital to be reduced from 17 to four next year, trainees say

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6, 2023

Need for protecting and promoting teaching profession in medical colleges stressed

Though private practice is an option to supplement income, teachers will end up compromising on the quality time required to train budding doctors. The consequences of poor training on future doctors is something that society cannot afford. A vast majority of medical college teachers in India are not assured of…

The Hindu · Sep 4, 2023

Friday essay: 'black bile', malaria therapy and insulin comas – a brief history of mental illness

Possibly the earliest account of a disturbed mind is recorded in a 3,500-year-old Hindu text that describes a man who is “gluttonous, filthy, walks naked, has lost his memory and moves about in an uneasy manner”.

The Conversation · Aug 24, 2023

Ministers under fire for ‘levelling down’ desperately-needed mental health services for children in London

Government criticised over plans to move doctor training posts in child and adolescent psychiatry from the capital to other parts of the country

Evening Standard · Jun 28, 2023

Psychiatry CME organised at SDM

The Department of Psychiatry in SDM Medical College, Dharwad, organised its 17th Annual Psychiatry CME (Continued Medical Education) recently.

The Hindu · Jun 21, 2023

Persons with mental illnesses do well with family support, says expert

Lecture on ‘The Evolution of Psychiatry and its History in India’ held as part of the Keshav Desiraju Memorial Lecture Series, organised by Cognizant Foundation and The Banyan’s partnership for the mental health sector

The Hindu · May 26, 2023

Five rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes – including one where people believe they are dead

Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry.

The Conversation · May 23, 2023

Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulness trends

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · May 14, 2023

Call for psychosis treatment overhaul after evidence of autoimmune trigger

Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trial

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2023

UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics

Certificate at Exeter to include teaching about existing therapies and research in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023