This study aimed to identify the incidence and clinical correlates of aggression and violence
in first episode psychosis. We prospectively recruited subjects with a first episode of DSM-…

Patient suicide is a relatively common event: 50–70% of consultant psychiatrists and 40–50%
of psychiatric trainees have experienced at least one patient suicide. Patient suicide can …

Introduction Violence in first episode psychosis poses significant challenges for mental health
staff and patients’ families. Violence has been shown to be related to psychopathology. …

Background Psychological features associated with execution are not fully understood. Aims
To analyse demographics of individuals executed in Texas and investigate whether there …

Individuals awaiting execution have high rates of mental illness and psychological problems.
We examined themes and psychological factors in last statements before execution in …

Aim We examined whether it is possible to use a television programme to improve mental
health literacy about schizophrenia by investigating the impact of the introduction of a realistic …

Worldwide, over 1000 people were executed in 2016 and over 3000 sentenced to death.
Death row prisoners have high rates of mental illness, often combined with neurological …

Discussion This case history demonstrates significant problematic behaviours (eg
pathological gambling) that followed the instigation of therapy with cabergoline, a dopamine …

On 31 January 2006 Jaime Elizalde Junior, a 34 year old Hispanic man, was executed by
lethal injection in Texas. Elizalde, a welder, had been convicted of killing two men in Houston …

Back in 1984 a BBC camera crew filmed eight medical students from St Mary’s Hospital
Medical School, as it was then called, in west London. In several programmes broadcast during …