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  1. Request new paper in Curr Opin Psychiatry "Clinical utility of screening for clinical depression and bipolar disorder"? email ajm80@le.ac.uk
  2. Do tools predicting schizophrenia in high-risk groups work? Authors claim yes bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/5/… but results suggest 60% false positives
  3. Thanks Claudia Hammond & Pam Rutherford for featuring metabolic risks with antipsychotics on R4's All in the mind bbc.in/E4Mpm.
  4. On BBC R4 all in the mind next tuesday (9am) and wed regarding weight gain and antipsychotic drugs...huge problem for lots of patients!
  5. Got a new paper coming out in RCPsych's "APT" journal about medical care for those with mental ill health: an overview. Should be out soon.
  6. Alex J Mitchell's Psychiatry Blog: Rate of Depression in Long-term Cancer Survivors: ... psycho-oncology-info.blogspot.com/2011/02/rate-o…
  7. 6 new posters ready for APOS meeting in california. Preview them here http://www.slideshare.net/AJMitchell_Posters
  8. New paper on "Screening for Distress and Depression in Cancer Settings: Lessons from 40 years of Primary Care Research" accepted today
  9. Our new paper on gps detection of dementia has been accepted by aps journal...coming latr in year
  10. Depression In Cancer Patients Might Be Less Common Than Previously Thought (The Lancet Oncology) mnt.to/3Q7B via @mnt_depression
  11. Confirmed that I will be attending the Royal College of Psychiatrists liaison mtg in Galsgow on 4th March: giving 1x workshop and 1x talk.
  12. We have a press release out today search "People With Mental Illness Receive Inadequate Mass Screening for Prevention of Medical Conditions"
  13. Press release this week about a large scale review in General Hospital Psychiatry re inequalities in screening for those with mental illness
  14. Just joined twitter, hope someone finds this useful. Everything and anything about clinically useful psychiatric research!