Scamvougeras and Castle argue that appeals to dualism are frequently deployed to dismiss psychological explanations in favour of framing functional neurological disorder (FND) as a “brain disorder....

Using national victimization records from 1964–2024, the authors show that conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia is geographically clustered and disproportionately affects women and minority et...

Improving outcomes for people with co-occurring autism and psychosis: from diagnostic overshadowing to system-wide clinical capability

Neuropsychiatric presentations are common across neurological and mental health services but they are often inadequately covered by core clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology training. Con....

Background Personality change is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment remain poorly understood. Methods We completed a pre-reg...

Background Colombia’s PAPSIVI program is the world’s largest psychosocial support service for victims of armed conflict providing support for over half a million civilians. However, service delivery h...

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

Emotional and cognitive effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy - Volume 56

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

What happens when spouses accuse each other of gaslighting? Nothing good.

Unpacking neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology training: scoping review of core syllabus components

Hallucination research is a fast‑growing, inherently interdisciplinary field bridging psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This artic…

Abstract. Introduction: Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few ...

A half day course on neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders for BNPA members

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

Apathy is a recognized neuropsychiatric syndrome in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) with far-reaching consequences, including reduced independence, meaningful activities and quality o...

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

The self-presentation of psychiatric disorders on social media has generated a countermovement of sceptics who believe some are “faked” for reasons of self-promotion. This has been the focus of a R...

Academic & professional body for practitioners & professionals allied to medicine at the interface of the clinical & cognitive neurosciences, & psychiatry

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

Background Evidence that mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) causes psychiatric problems in children has been mixed. Investigating this issue has been difficult due to the lack of representative long...

Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors

Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.