Estimates on the prevalence of child maltreatment vary widely, but the numbers are wrenching: around the world, 4%-16% of all children are…
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General Childhood nonsexual trauma: The long-term outcomes of physical and emotional maltreatment and neglect
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Mental Health No Health Without Mental Health
Mental health exerts a substantial burden of suffering and disability that is often underappreciated. The stigma of mental illness and legacy of…
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General Q&A with Vikram Patel – guest editor of the PLoS Medicine Global Mental Health Practice series
In the latest installment of the Speaking of Medicine series of Q&A blog posts, we hear from Vikram Patel, one of the…
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General Q&A with Vikram Patel – guest editor of the PLoS Medicine Global Mental Health Practice series
In the latest installment of the Speaking of Medicine series of Q&A blog posts, we hear from Vikram Patel, one of the…
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General The Neurological Legacy of Childhood Trauma
It’s almost common knowledge that many people who experienced trauma as children have a harder time in adult life. Indeed, over the…
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Mental Health Call for papers: PLoS Medicine series on Global Mental Health Practice
Today PLoS Medicine launches a new series on the best ways to help people with mental health problems around the world. The series…
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General Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be published next year, but…
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Mental Health What is a traumatic experience if you live in Mogadishu?
The woman in front of me in the clinic looked worried. Her child, a small creature, was struggling to resist efforts to…
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General Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Causal Link?
Although injury and death define war, every war is unique in its predominant types of injury and causes of death. World War…
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Mental Health Mental health care in conflict zones
Sadly, the global burden of mental health is under-recognised and enormous: mental health conditions are the leading cause of DALYs worldwide, but…
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Conference news Cambridge Global health Conference: Students are leading the way
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) “It never ceases to amaze me how much Medsinners [members of Medsin] accomplish while studying full…
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Mental Health New systematic review identifies gap in treatment for epilepsy in LAMIC
A paper just published in the WHO bulletin draws further attention to the global disparity in caring for those with epilepsy between…