Top Psychiatry Stories of 2008

We comment on the year's most important developments.

I am delighted to introduce the Top Stories for 2008 in psychiatry. The editorial board for Journal Watch Psychiatry has determined the topics after carefully reviewing all of the past year’s summaries. In making our choices, we have tried to strike a balance between relevance to the clinician, recognition of landmark studies, and media publicity and public awareness. Each Top Story draws on several related summaries, and most include new citations to enlarge their scopes. The stories are arranged in no particular order, and their sequence is not intended to reflect their relative importance. All citations are from 2008, unless otherwise noted.

Our Top Stories for 2008 are:

The Emerging Evidence Base for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies

Psychosurgery — Beyond the Nobel Prize

Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Learning What We Don’t Know

Depression and Antidepressants in Pregnancy

Predictive Power of Genes: Stronger but Not Ready for the Clinic

Traumatic Brain Injury: New Importance, New Developments

— Peter Roy-Byrne, MD

Published in Journal Watch Psychiatry December 29, 2008

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