Screening for postpartum depression and borderline personality disorder: Food for thought.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Amphetamine-type stimulant use in acute psychiatric inpatients with delusions.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Kava for generalised anxiety disorder: A 16-week double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study.
...Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Previous randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies have shown that Kava (a South Pacific medicinal plant) reduced anxiety during short-term administration. The objective of this randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to perform a larger, longer-term trial assessing the efficacy and safety of Kava in the treatment of gener...
Response to: Media depictions of possible suicide contagion among celebrities: A cause for concern and potential opportu...
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Psychosis induced by antidepressant treatment with reboxetine.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Age, sex and period estimates of Australia's mental health over the last 17 years.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Describing the long-term mental health of Australians is limited as many reports rely on cross-sectional studies which fail to account for within-person changes and age-related developmental processes which may bias estimates which ignore these phenomena. We examined the 17-year trajectories of mental health in 27,519 Australian adults. Household p...
Pareto's law of the vital few: Patient requirements for hospital based non-acute care.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Depression in the medically ill.
...Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Depressive disorders are significantly more common in the medically ill compared to the general population. Depression is associated with worsening of physical symptoms, greater healthcare utilization and poorer treatment adherence. The present paper provides a critical review on the assessment and management of depression in the medically ill. Rel...
Suicides in Australia following media reports of the death of Robin Williams.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
This study assessed the extent to which local reporting of Robin Williams' suicide (on 11 August 2014) was associated with suicide in Australia. It followed several studies in the United States which showed that there were significant increases in suicide following media reports of Williams' death and that those media reports were less than optimal...
Pharmacotherapy for incarcerated people with a history of violence: Response to commentary by Schofield et al.
Published in The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
