Linda 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
Clinical review: Personality disorder
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5276
Political drive to screen for pre-dementia: not evidence based and ignores the harms of diagnosis
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5125
A two-decade comparison of prevalence of dementia in individuals aged 65 years and older from three geographical areas of England
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61570-6/fulltext