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Psychiatry is influenced by a culture-specific system of knowledge, power and institutions. The culture in which psychiatry is practised helps determine what constitutes a psychological condition and influences symptomatology.

Combining evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacological treatments significantly benefits the global quality of life of first episode psychosis patients when compared with standard community care.

The Value of Treatment (VoT) Project of the European Brain Council (EBC) argues that optimizing interventions in mental health and neurological diseases can bring both positive outcomes for patients and socio-economic gains for society.

Since sleep regulation involves many neurotransmitter systems and brain circuits, it is likely that the mechanisms generating normal sleep overlap with those that maintain mental health.

Agitation is a frequent and distressing feature of advanced Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementias and its adequate management – non-pharmacological or pharmacological – is a major unmet need.

There has been a shift from the treatment goal of symptom reduction to achieving functional remission. Cognition is central to the positive mental health and functioning treasured by patients – an aspect of depression that we have neglected.