[Reform of the law on compulsory admission in Belgium: more tailored healthcare?].

Background: The law regulating the forced or protective admission of the mentally ill person in Belgium is 34 years old. The parliament recently agreed on an extensive legislative amendment to better adapt the law to the changing mental health care system and society.

Aim: Outlining the epidemiological, clinical and legal developments regarding forced admissions in Belgium.

A systematic review on the relationship between mental health, radicalization and mass violence.

Radicalization is a process, by which individuals adopt extreme political, social and religious ideation that leads to mass violence acts. It has been hypothesized that mental health characteristics might be associated with a risk of radicalization. However, a qualitative synthesis of studies investigating the relationship between mental health and radicalization has not been performed so far.

Prescribing preferences in rapid tranquillisation: a survey in Belgian psychiatrists and emergency physicians.

Background: The pharmacotherapeutic management of agitation is a common clinical challenge. Pharmacotherapy is frequently used, the use of published guidelines is not known. The purpose of this study was twofold; to describe the prescribing patterns of psychiatrists and emergency physicians and to evaluate to which extent guidelines are used.

Neurocognition in clinical high risk young adults who did or did not convert to a first schizophrenic psychosis: a meta-analysis.

Background: Individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis have become a major focus for research designed to explore early predictors of transition to full psychosis. Characterizing differences in neurocognitive (NC) functioning between psychosis converters (CHR-C) and non-converters (CHR-NC) might contribute to the identification of specific NC predictors of psychosis onset. Therefore, the aim of the present meta-analysis was to compare the baseline NC performance between CHR-C and CHR-NC.