Australian Psychiatry Review

In September Australian Psychiatry Review features an outline of the use of optogenetics in psychiatry research. Other highlights include debate in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry over the legal and clinical basis of abortion justified by increased risk of adverse mental health; articles in JAMA Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry exploring evidence linking schizophrenia with disrupted connections between specific brain regions, with Fan and colleagues in Biological Psychiatry demonstrating that olfactory stem cells taken from adults with schizophrenia show adhesion and motility dysfunction that might explain neurodevelopmental abnormalities.