Psychopathic Disorder – Concept or Chimera

Psychopathic Disorder

TDSYCHOPATHIC disorder is de?/ fined in the 1959 Mental Health as "a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not ?deluding subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medial treatment". The Act also specifies lhat promiscuity or other immoral conduct should not...

Chimera or not chimera?

The article entitled " Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Repopulation by Extracardiac Progenitors in Transplanted Human Hearts " by Laflamme et al, 1 published in Circulation Research, confirms our early observations 2 that cardiac chimerism occurs after transplanta-tion of a female heart in a male patient. These results are also in agreement with the detection of chimerism in multiple organs after bo...

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Psychopathic disorder : a category mistake ?

Although the concept ofpsychopathy retains its currency in British psychiatry, apparently being meaningful as well as useful to practitioners (1), it is often taken to refer to a purely legal category with social controlfunctions rather than a medical diagnosis with treatment implications. I wish, in this briefarticle, to suggest that it is essentially, and most usefully, an ethical category wh...

Polypill: chimera or reality?

The idea of including several drugs in a fixed-dose combination for cardiovascular prevention was born at the beginning of this century. Although the suggestion initially received scant attention, the seminal work of Wald and Law in 2003, which introduced the term polypill, attracted the interest of researchers and the media, sparking a controversy that continues today. For some health professi...