9 May 2011

New psychiatry research released

The latest edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry has been released and contains a number of interesting and relevant research articles including:

• Overweight and obesity in childhood and risk of mental disorder: a 20-year cohort study

• Developmental outcomes of children exposed to antidepressants in pregnancy

• Sexual attraction, depression, self-harm, suicidality and help-seeking behaviour in New Zealand secondary school students

• Prevalence of behavioural and emotional problems in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders

• Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in first episode psychosis and in subjects at ultra high risk for developing psychosis; onset and relationship to psychotic symptoms

Abstracts of all articles in the May edition are available at:
http://informahealthcare.com/toc/anp/45/5

Published by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry contains high quality, peer-reviewed, original research articles, reviews and case reports in the field of psychiatry.

Please contact Valerie Lifook if you would like to receive full text of any of the articles.

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