Psychiatric disorders
Mental health: a state of well-being
02-06-2008
Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community. The WHO has made this fact file to illustrate it.
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Research
BrainNet Europe
11-01-2008
BrainNet Europe is a "Network of Excellence" funded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Program "Life Science" (LSHM-CT-2004-503039). It consists of 19 established brain banks across Europe and is coordinated by the Centre for Neuropathology and Prion Research Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
Main objectives
· Collection and distribution of well-characterised high-quality post mortem brain tissues for basic research in neuroscience
· Provision of a basis and quality control system for European Research and Technical Development (RTD) projects dealing with clinical or epidemiological aspects of neurological and psychiatric diseases
· Standardisation and harmonisation of neuropathological diagnosis within Europe
· Increase of the awareness of standardised neuropathological and clinical diagnosis in neurology and psychiatry at a European level
· Development of gold standards for tissue handling, safety aspects, quality control and ethics as a basis for using human post mortem brain tissue especially in new investigative techniques such as expression profiling and proteomics
· Contribution to training and exchange of neuroscientists
· Use of modern means of information technology to exchange data within the network, to spread excellence and to disseminate information to the general public.
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Diseases
Neurosciences Foundation launches a weblog for patients and caregivers
11-01-2008
Lookafteryourbrain.com is a weblog on the central nervous system and neurologic and psychiatric disorders. It is devoted to healthy people, patients and caregivers (Go). [View more]
Mental Health
Madrid declaration on Ethical Standards for Psychiatric practice
21-12-2007
In 1977, the World Psychiatric Association approved the Declaration of Hawaii, setting out ethical guidelines for the practice of psychiatry. The Declaration was subsequently updated in Vienna in 1983. To reflect the impact of changing social attitudes and new medical developments on the psychiatric profession, the World Psychiatric Association has once again examined and revised some of these ethical standards.
Medicine is both a healing art and a science. The dynamics of this combination are best reflected in psychiatry, the branch of medicine that specializes in the care and protection of those who are ill and infirm, because of a mental disorder or impairment. Although there may be cultural, social and national differences, the need for ethical conduct and continual review of ethical standards is universal.
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Psychiatric disorders
SCHIZOPHRENIA OPENS DOORS
20-11-2007
“Schizophrenia opens doors” programme expects to put into practice these principles in the particular case of a disease, schizophrenia, like paradigm in the loss of mental disease.
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