IMMERSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SIMULATION HELPS STUDENTS WITH CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS.

Simulation within nursing education is becoming a popular means of facilitating competency, where there is a tendency for this to focus on the acquisition and development of clinical and technical skills.

Fine mapping of candidate regions for bipolar disorder provides strong evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosomes 7q.

Genomewide scans of bipolar disorder (BP) have not produced consistent linkage findings. Follow-up studies using enlarged samples and enhanced marker density can bolster or refute claims of linkage and pave the way to gene discovery. We conducted linkage and association analyses, using a ~3-cM density map of 10 candidate regions, in a large BP pedigree sample (865 individuals from 56 pedigrees).