Internet and Psychiatry

Steven Lippmann, M.D.

Could healthy eating habits be bad? Good nutrition and careful food selection sounds just great and indeed they are. We all applaud healthy eating. However, like any behavior, too much of it, can become counter-productive or even dangerous. Excessive adherence to an overly rigid diet can become physically unhealthy and hamper social function. Being compulsive in restricting oneself exclusively to the very “healthiest” of food choices can result in malnutrition and social dysfunction.

Steven Lippmann, M.D.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive dementing illness starting during middle to older life. This neurodegenerative brain disease of the frontal and temporal lobes results in personality, behavioral, and language alterations. These clinical features are much more prominent than the forgetfulness and diminished cognition of most other dementing illnesses.

Leo Sher, M.D.

The 67th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) was held on May 3-5, 2012 in Philadelphia. The announced theme of the meeting was “Systems Neurosciences: Applications to Psychiatric Illnesses.”

Leo Sher, M.D.

The 3rd International Congress on Pediatric Chronic Diseases, Disability and Human Development will be held in Jerusalem on December 2-5, 2012. The meeting is organized by Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Israeli National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine has published the Press Release, “Leo Sher, MD, named to a World Psychiatric Association Scientific Section.” The Press Release was published on March 8, 2012. To read the Press Release, please click here.

Leo Sher, M.D.

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Dual Disorders/Pathology has just been created. The goals of the newly created section include raising awareness about clinical treatment and research needs of patients with dual disorders, facilitating communication between psychiatrists and developing new training and research programs in the field of dual disorders.

Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D.

One of the few facts about medical errors that physicians, trial lawyers and patients can all agree upon is that there are too many of them.  In the well-publicized Harvard Medical Malpractice Study (1991), researchers discovered that “adverse events due to negligence” occurred during a stunning 1% of hospital admissions. The Institute of Medicine reported in 1999 that in excess of 44,000 deaths and 1,000,000 injuries each year are attributable to iatrogenic causes.

Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D.

I have had the opportunity to deliver lectures on depression at the workplace. These lectures are aimed at increasing public awareness on mental health in the workplace, and recently, I have had many requests to give lectures on the so-called “modern” (new) form of depression.