Diagnosing dementia, treating personality disorder
inda Gask, professor of primary care psychiatry at the University of Manchester, explains why a personality disorder diagnosis is not as hopeless as many patients and doctors fear.
Also Carol Brayne, professor of public health at the University of Cambridge, discusses how to make the most of the UK government ’s push to diagnose dementia, even... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Diagnosing dementia, treating personality disorder
inda Gask, professor of primary care psychiatry at the University of Manchester, explains why a personality disorder diagnosis is not as hopeless as many patients and doctors fear.
Also Carol Brayne, professor of public health at the University of Cambridge, discusses how to make the most of the UK government’s push to diagnose dementia, even though the evidence is limited.
See also:
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5276
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5125
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61570-6/fulltext (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Disaster and dementia
Haiti this week suffered its worst earthquake in 200 years. Marc Dubois, general director of aid charity MSF UK, talks about how his organisation is responding to the disaster and how doctors can help.
Also, BMJ clinical editor Elizabeth Loder interviews Benjamin Wolozin about the link between cardiovascular disease and dementia.
Krishna Moorthy... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Disaster and dementia
Haiti this week suffered its worst earthquake in 200 years. Marc Dubois, general director of aid charity MSF UK, talks about how his organisation is responding to the disaster and how doctors can help.
Also, BMJ clinical editor Elizabeth Loder interviews Benjamin Wolozin about the link between cardiovascular disease and dementia.
Krishna Moorthy talks to Helen Morant about what medicine can learn from aviation. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
NICE in America
In this week’s podcast we find out from Sean Tunis about the future of comparative effectiveness research in the USA, and how the new institute created to champion it will differ from the UK’s National Institute of Clinical Excellence.
Also, Claudia Cooper talks about her research that could support carers in the decisions they have to make for dementia sufferers. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Designed for health
In this week ’s podcast Jeremy Myerson, from the Royal College of Art, tells us how good design techniques can make cities more friendly places to grow old gracefully. Clive Ballard, from Kings College London, explains how important pain relief is for dementia patients. Elizabeth Draper, from the University o f Leicester, talks us through her... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Designed for health
In this week’s podcast Jeremy Myerson, from the Royal College of Art, tells us how good design techniques can make cities more friendly places to grow old gracefully. Clive Ballard, from Kings College London, explains how important pain relief is for dementia patients. Elizabeth Draper, from the University of Leicester, talks us through her investigation into how socioeconomic class affects how women deal with severe congenital abnormalities during pregnancy. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy
Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy ’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, explains how to test and treat a pregnant woman exposed to a child with a rash. Sverre Bergh, a researcher at the Centre for Old Age Psychiatric Research, Sanderud Hospital in Norway, discusses the results... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy
Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, explains how to test and treat a pregnant woman exposed to a child with a rash. Sverre Bergh, a researcher at the Centre for Old Age Psychiatric Research, Sanderud Hospital in Norway, discusses the results of his research into stopping SSRIs in dementia patients in Norway. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Anti vaccination movements
Paul Offit, the author of the yes side of our head to head article "Should childhood vaccination be mandatory", joins us to discuss his book Deadly Choices: How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all, and explains why he thinks it is wrong to refuse to accept patients who haven't been vaccinated.
Also, in the month when UK prime minister David Cameron said dementia care is a “national crisis” and that he is making it one of his personal priorities, Marcel Olde Rikkert, professor in geriatrics at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands, discusses his research which looks at the relative effecti...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Issue 3, 2013 round-up
John Hilton from the Cochrane Editorial Unit introduces the March 2013 round-up of what's new on The Cochrane Library. Included in this round-up: topical treatments for psoriasis; withdrawing antipsychotic drugs in people with dementia; using prebiotics in infant formula; the use of helicopters in emergency medical services; patient-centred outcomes research; and evidence-based interventions for cutaneous leishmaniasis (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 16, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issue 1 to 3, January to March 2013 Source Type: podcasts
Withdrawal versus continuation of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia
Alongside the many Cochrane Reviews of the effects of starting treatments, some CochraneReviews look at the effects of stopping them. Tom Declercq from the Department of General Practiceand Primary Health Care in Ghent University in Belgium gives us a brief overview of a March 2013 reviewof the withdrawal of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issue 1 to 3, January to March 2013 Source Type: podcasts
