British Neuropsychiatry Association

The British Neuropsychiatry Association Annual Conference the Institute of Child Health

9 February Dementia – from Local to Global Plenary Lecture 10 February The Neuropsychiatry of the Dementias Catatonia Guest Lecture 11 February Child Neuro-Psychiatric disorders in adult life Neuropsychiatry and Literature Keynote Speaker INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, central London

Genetic case-control association studies in neuropsychiatry.

Case-control association studies use genetic markers as putative etiologic risk factors. The approach is controversial and has tended to produce associations in neuropsychiatry that do not stand the test of time. We studied the processes that can bias the outcomes away from a true representation of the relationship between a genetic marker and a neuropsychiatric disorder. If conducted with care...

Proceedings of the winter meeting of the British Neuropsychiatry Association, London Zoo, Regent's Park, London, 17 January 1997.

Neuropsychiatry

The purpose of this book is to exhaustively review what appears to be a general integration between the subspecialities of neurology and psychiatry. In the Foreward, it is pointed out that practitioners of neurology and psychiatry “have been assigned the uniquely challenging task of treating the most complex disorders of the most complex organ in the body.”p xi The Preface notes that recent beh...

British Paediatric Association

JOHN LORBER (Sheffield). 'Long-term Prognosis of Subdural Effusions in Infancy.' Of 37 consecutive infants suffering from post-traumatic subdural effusions, 34 survived with an average period of observation of 3 years. There were 28 boys. The technique of management consisted of repeated aspirations until the effusions dried up. This was the only treatment necessary in 19 infants, 11 of whom re...