Editorial: Ingenious designs and causal inference in child psychology and psychiatry

Causal inference in studies and medical articles

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Guest editorial: classification in child psychiatry.

Cognitive Neuroscience and Causal Inference: Implications for Psychiatry

In this paper, we investigate to what extent it is justified to draw conclusions about causal relations between brain states and mental states from cognitive neuroscience studies. We first explain the views of two prominent proponents of the interventionist account of causation: Woodward and Baumgartner. We then discuss the implications of their views in the context of traditional cognitive neu...

Psychology and Psychiatry

As the 'bulge' in the proportion of people over seventy-five continues to swell ominously over the next decade, we can expect to see many more such papers by consultants in psychogeriatrics, bemoaning with Dr Christie that 'the rising prevalence of dementia and the increasing survival of demented patients, is posing serious problems for the psychogeriatric services'. The problems from the patie...

Psychology and Psychiatry

Citation: Alean Al-Krenawi. “Polygamy and Mental Health: an International Perspective”. EC Psychology and Psychiatry 1.1 (2016): 1-3. Polygamy The term polygamy is a Greek word meaning ‘‘the practice of multiple marriages’’ and is used in related ways in social anthropology, socio-biology, and sociology. Polygamy can be defined as a type of marriage practice or union that involves a number of p...