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JAMA Psychiatry

JAMA Psychiatry is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand JAMA Psychiatry rather than just read about it. In short: JAMA Psychiatry (until 2013: Archives of General Psychiatry) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It covers research in psychiatry, mental health, behavioral sciences, and related fields.

Key takeaways

JAMA Psychiatry belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect JAMA Psychiatry to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of JAMA Psychiatry from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

JAMA Psychiatry (until 2013: Archives of General Psychiatry) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It covers research in psychiatry, mental health, behavioral sciences, and related fields. The journal was established as Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry in 1919, and was split into two separate journals in 1959: Archives of Neurology and Archives of General Psychiatry. In 2013, their names changed to JAMA Neurology and JAMA Psychiatry, respectively. The editor-in-chief is Dost Öngür (Harvard University, McLean Hospital).

Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 25.911, ranking it 3rd out of 157 journals in the category "Psychiatry".

See also List of American Medical Association journals List of psychiatry journals

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with JAMA Psychiatry

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what JAMA Psychiatry claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to JAMA Psychiatry before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about JAMA Psychiatry ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of JAMA Psychiatry

In research: JAMA Psychiatry appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses JAMA Psychiatry in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: JAMA Psychiatry is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 1959, American Medical Association academic journals, English-language journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for JAMA Psychiatry outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study JAMA Psychiatry in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what JAMA Psychiatry means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain JAMA Psychiatry out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is JAMA Psychiatry in simple terms?

Why does JAMA Psychiatry matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study JAMA Psychiatry?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on JAMA Psychiatry.