Volume 225 - Issue 3 - September 2024
The Lithium Membrain 1000mm x 500mm Acrylic on Canvas
The title of my painting, ‘The Lithium Membrain’, merges the terms ‘Lithium’, ‘membrane’, and ‘brain’ to represent how Lithium crosses the brain's protective membrane to stabilise mood and promote positive mental health.
As the artist of ‘The Lithium Membrain’, I used the metaphors of a tree, a river, and a bridge to illustrate the brain's intricate beauty. The tree symbolises knowledge, the river represents consciousness, and the bridge signifies the pathway that connects and protects the brain. The girl in the painting gazing up at her brain in awe is me.
The river symbolises the flow of electrical signals, like a waterway traverses a landscape. Calm waters alternating with turbulent torrents, mirror the shifts between depression and mania. Axons and dendrites overlay the tree displaying vast neural connections, while the bridge represents the blood-brain barrier, crucial for regulating the entry of substances. Lithium's journey into the brain crosses the blood-brain barrier, helping to regulate neurotransmitters and stabilise mood. It smooths the brain's turbulent currents, reducing mood swings and fostering stability and balance.
Anne Naylor (Artist)
Anne Naylor is an artist, advocate and author. She wrote ‘Art from Adversity: A Life with Bipolar,' which was published in 2013 by Interactive Publications. Her artworks are on display at The CADE Clinic in The Royal North Shore Hospital at St Leonards in Sydney. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2004, Anne has been taking Lithium for over ten years.
We are always looking for interesting and visually appealing images for the cover of the Journal and would welcome suggestions or pictures, which should be sent to Dr Allan Beveridge, British Journal of Psychiatry, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB, UK or [email protected].
BJPsych Editorial
British contributions to the therapeutic use of John Cade's lithium
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- 04 October 2024, pp. 353-356
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Mortality associated with clozapine: what is the evidence?
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Guest Editorial
The interface of autism and (borderline) personality disorder
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- 23 September 2024, pp. 360-361
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LSD-assisted therapy in patients with anxiety: open-label prospective 12-month follow-up
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- 30 July 2024, pp. 362-370
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Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial
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- 07 August 2024, pp. 371-378
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Development and initial evaluation of a clinical prediction model for risk of treatment resistance in first-episode psychosis: Schizophrenia Prediction of Resistance to Treatment (SPIRIT)
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- 05 August 2024, pp. 379-388
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Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared with the general population: nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales
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- 08 August 2024, pp. 389-400
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Review
Effect of nature on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents: meta-review
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- 05 August 2024, pp. 401-409
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Commentary
Sensitivity to light in bipolar disorder: implications for research and clinical practice: commentary, Terao
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Randomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of osmotic-release oral system methylphenidate on symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: CIAO-II study: commentary, Fazel
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Randomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of osmotic-release oral system methylphenidate on symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): CIAO-II study: commentary, Asherson et al
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The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism: commentary, author response, Tromans et al
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- 04 November 2024, pp. 414-415
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Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Shergill et al
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Mental health of heterosexual women married to homosexual men: a major but neglected issue: commentary, Dosani
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- 31 July 2024, p. 418
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Book Review
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything By Gregory L. Murphy. MIT Press. 2024. £30.65 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0262547031
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Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective: Faith in Reform Edited by Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis and Rob Ellis. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. £99.99 (hb). 314 pp. ISBN: 9783031229770
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Fish's Clinical Psychopathology: Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry (5th edn) By Patricia Casey and Brendan Kelly, Royal College of Psychiatrists/Cambridge University Press. 2024. 23.99 (pb). 146 pp. ISBN 978-1009372695
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Winifred Holtby (1898–1935): a mental hospital visit, early 1930s – Psychiatry in literature
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Equanimity in psychiatric medicine: the mind in the middle – Psychiatry in history
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Gambling disorder in the arts: Caravaggio's ‘The Cardsharps’ – Psychiatry in art
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