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Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity: the bridge between social science and psychiatry

C Morgan, R Mallett, G Hutchinson, J Leff - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
It has been consistently reported that the African-Caribbean population in the UK are more
likely than their White counterparts to access psychiatric services via the police and under …

First-contact incidence rate of schizophrenia on Barbados

GE Mahy, R Mallett, J Leff, D Bhugra - The British Journal of …, 1999 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe incidence rate for broad schizophrenia among second-generation African–Caribbean
people in the United Kingdom has been reported as high. Ethnicity, migration and …

Pastoralists at war: Violence and security in the Kenya-Sudan-Uganda border region

J Leff - International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), 2009 - ijcv.org
… and Security in the Kenya-Sudan-Uganda Border Region Jonah Leff (pp. 188 – 203) …
Jonah Leff is currently a member of the UN Panel of Experts on the Sudan, monitoring and …

The influence of family and social factors on the course of psychiatric illness: A comparison of schizophrenic and depressed neurotic patients

CE Vaughn, JP Leff - The British journal of psychiatry, 1976 - cambridge.org
… and Leff (1976). The psychologist spent several months learning to use the interview
schedule. High inter-rater reliability with the original interviewers was established by rating tapes …

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

N Fierer, JW Leff, BJ Adams… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and
animal communities vary across biomes. In contrast, we have only just begun exploring similar …

The measurement of expressed emotion in the families of psychiatric patients

C Vaughn, J Leff - British journal of social and clinical …, 1976 - Wiley Online Library
In a series of studies of the influence of family life on the course of an established schizophrenic
illness, it has been shown that the level of emotion expressed by relatives shortly after a …

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

JW Leff, SE Jones, SM Prober… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Soil microorganisms are critical to ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of soil fertility.
However, despite global increases in the inputs of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to …

A controlled trial of social intervention in the families of schizophrenic patients

J Leff, L Kuipers, R Berkowitz… - The British Journal of …, 1982 - cambridge.org
… Our tentative interpretation of the data in Fig 1 (Vaughn and Leff, 1976a) now takes on a
definitive status, all the more so because the relapse rates pre dicted from the Fig were so close …

Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

SM Prober, JW Leff, ST Bates, ET Borer, J Firn… - Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and function
of terrestrial ecosystems, yet the fundamental relationships between plant diversity and …

Incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses in ethnic minority groups: results from the MRC AESOP Study

…, J Holloway, R Mallett, G Harrison, J Leff… - Psychological …, 2006 - cambridge.org
Background. The incidence of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in
England is reported to be raised. We sought to clarify whether (a) the rates of other psychotic …