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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in forensic psychiatry has gained significant attention due to their potential to enhance tasks such as outcome prediction and decision-making. In this study, we explored the feasibility and performance of a large language model (LLM-GPT) in extracting both clinical and non-clinical variables from authentic forensic psychiatric reports concerning defendants' criminal responsibility and social dangerousness. We employed GPT-4o to extract relevant data using a set of custom queries, which we applied to two forensic psychiatric expert reports. The results of the study demonstrated that the system was capable of extracting information from the forensic psychiatric reports and generating a summarized version. Identifying the most important parts to construct a meaningful synthesis in a highly specialized application domain is currently a challenge. This study highlights the potential of AI in forensic psychiatry and suggests that this approach could be valuable for collecting semi-automated or automated data from reports, enabling the creation of a large dataset that could be used for further research and analysis.
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Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
September 2025
Willem Pompe Instituut Voor Strafrechtswetenschappen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Technologies such as virtual reality, wearables, and mobile apps have the potential to improve forensic psychiatric treatment of youths. Meanwhile, these technological advancements have given rise to new, complex ethical challenges. Paying attention to ethics is especially relevant in forensic psychiatric youth settings because of the often coercive context of treatment and the vulnerable patient population.
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September 2025
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia.
Different levels of reduced consciousness characterise human sleep stages at the behavioural level. On electroencephalography (EEG), the identification of sleep stages predominantly relies on localised oscillatory power within distinct frequency bands. Several theoretical frameworks converge on the central significance of long-range information sharing in maintaining consciousness, which experimentally manifests as high functional connectivity (FC) between distant brain regions.
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September 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background: Attitudes of mental health professionals toward coercion are a potential tool in reducing the use of coercive measures in psychiatry.
Aims: This study, part of the nationwide Attitudes toward Coercion (AttCo) project, aimed to assess staff attitudes on a nationwide and multiprofessional scale across adult, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatric departments.
Method: During 9 weeks in 2023, 1702 psychiatric staff members across Germany filled out a survey including gender, age, profession, work experience and setting, and the validated Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale (SACS).
Front Psychiatry
August 2025
Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie, Personnalité, Cognition et Changement Social-LIP/PC2S, Grenoble, France.
This paper examines the implications of the transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 for the diagnosis of personality disorders in forensic psychiatric evaluations. The ICD-11 introduces a dimensional approach, replacing the previous categorical system with a focus on severity and maladaptive personality traits. This shift addresses longstanding criticisms of the ICD-10, such as underdiagnosis, diagnostic instability, and lack of scientific validity.
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September 2025
Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
This contribution aims to analyse an Italian femicide case that progressed through three levels of trial up to the Supreme Court of Cassation and required an expert opinion. This analysis will address specific forensic psychiatry issues inherent to this field, i.e.
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