1. Making a diagnosis is only important as it relates to treating the patient or providing a prognosis; do not chase a diagnosis simply as an intellectual exercise. 2. When a patient’s mental status deteriorates suddenly and unexpectedly in the intensive care unit (ICU), first check the chart. Look at the medicines the patient has been receiving as well as the recent orders. 3. There is no phys...

OBJECTIVE To identify the proportion of female carers who experience death thoughts and the factors associated with these thoughts, using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). METHODS A cross-sectional analysis of the fifth ALSWH survey was conducted. 10,528 middle-aged women provided data on caring and death thoughts, 3077 were carers and 2005 of those were i...

Given the importance of examining gender constructions in children’s literature and as a response to JoLLE’s call for activism, the author reflects on her experience of re-reading a picturebook that received criticism for its gender depictions. By walking the readers through the process of using scholarship in children’s literature to critically examine her first reading of the picturebook, the...

BACKGROUND Physical activity has been associated with many benefits throughout the life course. As levels of physical activity appear to be insufficient in large populations, the development of effective interventions to promote or maintain activity levels in young people are therefore of key public health concern. Physical activity intervention research in young people is challenging, but this...

Using a standardized schedule of questions, this study examined (a) the prevalence of self-report of violent thoughts by patients hospitalized for mental disorders compared with nonpatients, (b) the persistence of violent thoughts after discharge, and (c) the relation between patients' violent thoughts while hospitalized and violent acts within 20 weeks after hospital discharge. About 1/3 of th...

We charted daily variations in intrusive thoughts to gain access to adult age differences in affective reactivity to daily stressors. On 100 days, 101 younger and 103 older adults reported stressors, intrusive thoughts, and negative affect. Although increments in intrusive thoughts were similar in both age groups on days with stressors, older adults' negative affect increased less than younger ...

BACKGROUND Deceased-related thinking is central to grieving and potentially critical to processing of the loss. Self-report measurements might fail to capture important elements of deceased-related thinking and processing. Here, we used a machine learning approach applied to fMRI - known as neural decoding - to develop a measure of ongoing deceased-related processing. METHODS 23 subjects grie...