In October APR reviews cerebral organoids. There are articles on schizoaffective disorder, antipsychotics in dementia, agomelatine in depression, and questions regarding the long-term efficacy of antipsychotic medications.

In this podcast, Dr Andrew Amos discusses optogenetics research techniques and their applications in psychiatry, and summarises important articles across all psychiatric domains over the last month.

In this podcast Raj Persaud is in conversation with Vicky Pryce, author of Prisonomics.

In this podcast, Dr Andrew Amos discusses trends in psychosis research published in the major international psychiatric journals over the last year, and summarises important articles across all psychiatric domains over the last month.

Dr Chris Cantor - author of 'Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress: Disorders of Vigilance and Defence' in conversation with Raj Persaud.

In this podcast Andrew Amos provides a summary of psychiatric research released across the major international journals in July 2013. A complete list of references with links to the literature is provided. A blog with copies of all transcripts can be found at http://auspsychreview.wordpress.com. A related twitter account with regular updates is at: https://twitter.com/AusPsychReview

In this podcast the College Public Health Lead, Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, discusses public health medicine with Dr Ali Ajaz, providing an overview of the relationship between public health and psychiatry and examining the importance of well-being to public health outcome measures.

In this second interview with Dr Gwen Adshead, she discusses her recently published paper on the role of mentalisation in the management of violence.

In this podcast, Dr Gwen Adshead discusses the concept of mentalisation and the role of psychological therapies in changing the mind. She argues that mentalisation-based therapies can be applied to even the most complex psychological disorders as they work to alter the underlying neuronal structures in the brain.

The high prevalence of sexual dysfunction in people with psychosis has often been attributed solely to the side-effects of antipsychotic medication, and less is known about the rates of sexual dysfunction in prodromal and first-episode psychosis. In this podcast, Dr Oliver Howes and Dr Tiago Reis Marques discuss the findings of their recent study into this area, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.