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The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
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Psychiatry Careers in Scotland
On the 14th June 2019 the Vice President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (who is also Chair of the Scottish Division) was involved in a #choosepsychiatry campaign called “Psychiatry … Continue reading Psychiatry Careers in Scotland
‘They say no’
The following words on antidepressant prescribing come from the novel ‘Grace Notes’ by Bernard MacLaverty. This novel was published the same year that I was started on an Seroxat for … Continue reading ‘They say no’
Serotonin is a vasoconstrictor
This is a letter from 1954 by Dr Alfred Letchner and published in the British Medical Journal
Serotonin and gut motility (1963)
This letter to the BMJ from December 1963 interested me. I worked in Kampala, Uganda between 1989 and 1990 and experienced the green banana diet.
Some neurophysiological aspects of Serotonin (1954)
This paper was published in the British Medical Journal in 1954. It was one of the first papers published in Britain on Serotonin:
“Doctors gamble on a cure”
In recent posts I have shared some of what I have come across in the British Newspaper Archive in relation to a search on the word “serotonin”. I have found … Continue reading “Doctors gamble on a cure”
Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)
The following editorial was by Dr James Guy Edwards. It was published the year before I started training in psychiatry: The author was Editor of this Text Book: The first … Continue reading Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)