Diagnosing dementia, treating personality disorder
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
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Show Notes
inda Gask, professor of primary care psychiatry at the University of Manchester, explains why a personality disorder diagnosis is not as hopeless as many patients and doctors fear.
Also Carol Brayne, professor of public health at the University of Cambridge, discusses how to make the most of the UK government’s push to diagnose dementia, even though the evidence is limited.
See also:
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5276
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5125
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61570-6/fulltext