Canadian qualifications for British psychiatrists

Aetiology of depression and schizophrenia: current views of British psychiatrists

RESULTS Genetics, biochemical abnormalities and substance misuse were considered important factors in both illnesses. Beyond that, psychiatrists varied widely in their views. Depression was viewed as a more multifactorial condition with psychological/social factors more important, whereas biological factors were considered more important in schizophrenia. Aetiological factors were thought to va...

Canadian and American psychiatrists' attitudes toward dissociative disorders diagnoses.

OBJECTIVE To compare the opinions of Canadian psychiatrists regarding dissociative disorder diagnoses with those of previously surveyed American psychiatrists. METHOD We sent a 1-page questionnaire to a stratified representative sample of 550 Canadian psychiatrists. RESULTS Eighty percent of Canadian psychiatrists responded. Fewer than one-third replied that dissociative amnesia and dissoci...

Constraint Qualifications for Nonlinear Programming

This paper deals with optimality conditions to solve nonlinear programming problems. The classical Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions are demonstrated through a cone approach, using the well known Farkas’ Lemma. These conditions are valid at a minimizer of a nonlinear programming problem if a constraint qualification is satisfied. First we prove the KKT theorem supposing the equalit...

The 2015 American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellows Report.

Pharmacokinetics for psychiatrists

pharmacokinetics describes the action of the body on administered drugs. this contribution illustrates that an understanding of pharmacokinetic principles is important in rational drug prescribing in psychiatry. examples are presented to underline the clinical relevance of the important aspects of pharmacokinetics, encompassing drug absorption, distribution, phase i and phase ii metabolism and ...