The Psych Review is back in 2024 and the whole gang is back together - but just not for this episode. Join Shakira, Alanna, and Dave as they get stuck into two new pieces of research. Dave holds our hand through a dense paper covering potential benefits of the suppression of unwanted thoughts, and Alanna explores an unexpected link between psychosis and cats. The references for this episode are: Dave: Mamat Z, Anderson MC. Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts. Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 22;9(38):eadh5292. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5292. Epub 2023 Sep 20. PMID: 3772941 ..read more

It's episode 2 of season 5! Shakira walks us through 'concept creep', and Alanna discusses the relationship between PTSD and dementia. (And we dip our toe into some statistics...) The references for this episode are: Jackson, H. J., & Haslam, N. (2022). Ill-defined: Concepts of mental health and illness are becoming broader, looser, and more benign. Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 30(4), 490–493. https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562221077898 Günak, M. M., Billings, J., Carratu, E., Marchant, N. L., Favarato, G., & Orgeta, V ..read more

In the seventh episode of this season of The Psych Review the team dig into two papers. Dave reviews recent evidence that compares ketamine and ECT in the treatment of depression, and Alanna investigates the link between prolactin elevating antipsychotics and breast cancer. The references for this episode are: Dave: Anand. A et al. Ketamine versus ECT for nonpsychotic treatment-resistant major depression. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2023 June; 388(25):2315:2324. Alanna: Hope JD, Keks NA, Copolov DL. Association between long-term use of prolactin-elevating antipsychotics in women and ..read more

It's episode six of season six of The Psych Review and this month we take a very special trip back in time to look at some classic psychiatric papers. Alanna's is authored by Australia's very own John Cade, and describes his historic discovery of the psychiatric uses of lithium. Dave covers The Rosenham Experiment, by reviewing an incredible article that might just be a bit too good to be true. The references for this episode are: Alanna: CADE J. F. (1949). Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement. The Medical journal of Australia, 2(10), 349–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440 ..read more

In episode five of season six The Psych Review hosts explore two very different topics. Alanna guides us down a very interesting (but very complicated) pathway to learn about Atypical Anorexia, and Dave looks into the methodology underpinning the recent Australian ADHD guidelines. The references for this episode are: Alanna: to be updated. Dave: May T, Birch E, Chaves K, et al. The Australian evidence-based clinical practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2023;57(8):1101-1116. doi:10.1177/00048674231166329. The Ps ..read more

This important episode of The Psych Review shines a sobering spotlight on the recent Australian Child Maltreatment Study. The team looks at the study as a whole including the reasons as to why study was created, as well as the individual papers that have used the study data to investigate more specific associations. This episode contains some very concerning statistics related to child maltreatment in Australia which some listeners may understandably find distressing. To learn more about the Australian Child Maltreatment Study you can follow this link: https://www.acms.au The Psych Review wa ..read more

It's the third episode of season six and The Psych Review is thinking about the future. Dave is looking ahead as he talks about climate change and it's potential impacts on mental health, and Mazz is focussing on an impending deadline as he walks us through the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act that is due to become active later this year. The references for this episode are: Dave: Patrick, R., Snell, T., Gunasiri, H., Garad, R., Meadows, G., & Enticott, J. (2023). Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia. Australian & New Zealand Journal ..read more

The Psych Review has recorded this very special episode at the 2023 RANZCP Congress on Whadjuk country in Perth, Western Australia. Dave and Mazz hide in a vacant seminar room to discuss their impressions of the congress, and Mazz takes us through some important learnings from a workshop on Good Psychiatric Management of borderline personality disorder. The workshop covered in this episode was: Good psychiatric management: an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. This session was presented by Catherine Ludbrook and Laura Cooke-O'Connor from the Borderline Personality ..read more

The Psych Review is back in force in 2023, with the entire cast returning for what is shaping up to be an epic season six. In the first episode of this season Dave digs into the largest ever depression focussed genome wide association study and discovers some new significant genetic loci for depression, and Alanna talks us through the recent Therapeutic Goods Administration approval of Psychedelic Assisted Therapies in Australia - a world first. The references for this episode are: Dave: Mitchell, B. L., Campos, A. I., Whiteman, D. C., Olsen, C. M., Gordon, S. D., Walker, A. J., ... & By ..read more

It's episode 3 of season 5! We're finishing off the season with a discussion about polypharmacy in the forensic setting and biomarkers for FND in children. The references for this episode are: Farrell, C., & Brink, J. (2020). The Prevalence and Factors Associated With Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in a Forensic Psychiatric Sample. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00263 Chung, J., Mukerji, S., & Kozlowska, K. (2023). Cortisol and α-amylase awakening response in children and adolescents with functional neurological (conversion) disorder. The Australian ..read more