An examination of criminal offenders with dementia in Australian courts.

This study aims to characterize people with dementia who were charged with criminal offences between 1995 and 2020 and describe their offending. Court cases were derived from Australian legal databases and descriptive data were manually extracted from case reports. Of 62 people variously charged with homicide, assault, child sexual assault, breach of conditions, property and larceny offences, driving offences, perverting the course of justice and arson, 46 were identified as having executive dysfunction, either as stated by medical expert witnesses or implicitly, due to conditions like Huntington's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Cybersecurity lessons from the Vastaamo psychotherapy data breach for psychiatrists and other mental healthcare providers.

Objective: The Vastaamo psychotherapy data breach in Finland is perhaps the largest cybersecurity incident in mental healthcare to date, resulting in significant patient harm. There are specific lessons for mental healthcare providers from an analysis of the incident.

Method: Case study of this specific electronic health record data breach, based on detailed media reporting.

Behind the curtain of : The practice of a medical journal and a call for reviewers.

The process of medical scientific journal publishing merits further explanation for authors and readers. Prospective authors need to understand the scope of the journal and the article types that are published. We give an overview of the editorial process, including selection of reviewers, peer review and decisions regarding revision, acceptance and rejection of papers for .