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Volume 210 - March 2017

Contents

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Correspondence

Columms

  • Authors' reply

  • Samuel Yeung Shan Wong
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    02 January 2018, p. 85
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  • From the Editor's desk

  • Kamaldeep Bhui
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    02 January 2018, p. 176
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  • Kaleidoscope

  • Derek K. Tracy, Dan W. Joyce, Sukhwinder S. Shergill
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    02 January 2018, pp. 87-88
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  • Tapping into your New Year resolutions, we present some cautionary data to consider.

    Recent research on novel addiction types suggests that, in addition to hunger, the urge to eat is considerably influenced by environmental cues. Obese individuals have been shown to be more sensitive to these, with subsequent stronger craving and larger portion sizes. Neurobiologically, this has been linked with pathological alterations to cue-triggered motivational responses in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) parallel to those seen in drug addiction. Oginsky et al investigated the effects of a junk-food diet on obesity-susceptible and obesity-resistant rats. Glutamatergic calcium-permeable AMPA receptor (CP-AMPAR) functioning in the NAc showed more rapid and long-lasting (for weeks after cessation of junk-food consumption) increases in the obesity-sensitive group. CP-AMPARs mediate cue-triggered food seeking, and their changes in the brain occurred before weight gain. The data support the concept that ‘junk food addiction’ induced by the consumption of fatty and high-sugar foods may be contributing to the obesity epidemic.

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • BJP volume 210 issue 5 on the Cover

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    31 May 2018, p. f1
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 2 on the Cover

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    31 May 2018, p. f1
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From the Editor's Desk

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  • Cultural neuroscience: A meta-paradigm for psychiatry?

  • Kamaldeep Bhui
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    02 January 2018, pp. 89-90
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 5 Cover and Front matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f2
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f2
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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  • Kaleidoscope

  • Derek K. Tracy, Dan W. Joyce, Sukhwinder S. Shergill
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    02 January 2018, pp. 307-308
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  • Quitting smoking isn't easy, even with the advent of e-cigarettes. The NHS Stop Smoking Services (SSSs) were established in 2000, and have shown superior results to nicotine replacement alone, but are characterised by low, and dropping, attendance rates. Beneath the highlight figure of a halving of UK smoking prevalence over the past 40 years lies a direct £6 billion cost to the NHS and 80000 deaths each year, as well as recent concern that clinical commissioning groups are not renewing service funding. Given that the ‘health belief model’ is based upon a trigger changing behaviour, what will encourage attendance at SSSs, especially with evidence that smokers underestimate their own personal risk? Gilbert et al randomised over 4000 smokers across almost 100 general practices to receive either a standard generic advertisement of the SSS clinic, or an individually tailored risk letter and invitation to a no-commitment introductory SSS session. The hosting general practitioners (GPs) and SSS advisors were masked to the allocation. The personalised letter more than doubled the odds of attending the SSS, showing that a more proactive approach can help engagement. Interestingly, the intervention was more effective with men, who are typically less likely to attend and set quit dates.

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  • eHealth adventures in psychiatric therapeutics

  • Kamaldeep Bhui
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    02 January 2018, pp. 309-310
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 4 on the Cover

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    31 May 2018, p. f1
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  • BJP volume 210 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f2
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