Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 14 Issue 4

Strapline:

formerly Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
Subject:

Table of contents

Case reports of improvement in behaviour following switching of patients with intellectual disability and epilepsy from levetiracetam to brivaracetam

Raghavendar Baburaj, Huw Morgan Dunstall, Catherine Bright, Charlotte Lawthom

Epilepsy is a chronic illness affecting around 50 million people worldwide. Levetiracetam is an effective novel antiepileptic drug but can cause behavioural adverse events. A…

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“When other people try to understand”: exploring the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities, who also have mental health problems

Sasha Martine Mattock, Kieron Beard, Amy Baddeley

Recent guidelines from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence highlight that service users (SUs) with intellectual disabilities and co-occurring mental health…

Significance of Basal ganglia calcification in Down's syndrome

Lesley Thoms, Adelola Idowu, Arjun Nehra, Asit Biswas

There is high incidence of dementia in individuals with Down’s syndrome. Much of the emphasis has been on Alzheimer’s disease as being most prevalent; however, it is apparent that…

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A pragmatic mixed-methods review of changing “case-complexity” of referrals to an intensive support service

Adam Clifford, Francesca Georgina Kemp

“Case-complexity” is a widely used but under-explored concept across health and social care. A region’s Intensive Support Teams (ISTs) had been reporting an increase in…

Cover of Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

ISSN:

2044-1282

e-ISSN:

2044-1290

ISSN-L:

2044-1282

Online date, start – end:

2010

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Sujeet Jaydeokar