Highlights of this issue [Highlights of this issue] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and the shifting sands of psychiatric nosology [EDITORIALS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Larsson et al provide epidemiological evidence for a genetic association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and Hamshere and colleagues...

King George III: re-evaluation of his mental health issues -- extra [Extras] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

ENCODE and a new landscape for psychiatric genetics [EDITORIALS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Despite rigorous research into the genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders, the mechanism by which polygenic risk leads to complex clinical phenotypes remains unclear. The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ...

Collaborative care at the crossroads [EDITORIALS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Collaborative care is a well-studied and effective model of integrating behavioural healthcare into primary care medical settings. Despite evidence of its effectiveness, it has been difficult to imple...

How can the service user voice be best heard at psychiatric meetings? [EDITORIALS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Service user contributions to mental health conferences are now routine. How effective they are at promoting dialogue is not clear. We report a difficult exchange following a presentation about coerci...

Adjusted prognostic association of depression following myocardial infarction with mortality and cardiovascular events: individual patient data meta-a... 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Background The association between depression after myocardial infarction and increased risk of mortality and cardiac morbidity may be due to cardiac disease severity. Aims To combine original data...

On Jaspers' General Psychopathology -- reflection [Extras] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Risk of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in relatives of people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [PAPERS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Background Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and it has been suggested that combined bipolar disorder and ADHD is aetiologically d...

Shared polygenic contribution between childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and adult schizophrenia [PAPERS] 1 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm

Background There is recent evidence of some degree of shared genetic susceptibility between adult schizophrenia and childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for rare chromosomal vari...