Sándor Kalmár M.D. Ph.D.
There are several possible reasons for the lack of proper recognition of depression in Primary Care Practice in Hungary:
1. General practitioners, who have graduated several years ago, only formally participate in CME courses, lack a holistic approach and do not possess sufficient knowledge, do not think of depression and do not recognise it.Every suicide prevention program is based on the findings of the famous Gotland study. Gotland is a famous island in Sweden, in the middle of Baltic Sea. One of the greatest results of this program, besides the decreasing number of suicides, is the recognition of the fact that every short educational program for general practitioners has only short-term efficiency.
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D.
DesRoches et al. (1) have recently published an interesting study whose aim was to answer three important questions: 1) do the professional activities of life sciences researchers differ by gender?; 2) does professional productivity of researchers still vary by gender?; and, finally, 3) after professionals activities are accounted for, does salary vary by gender?
Leo Sher, M.D.
The VI Baltic Symposium on Biological Psychiatry was held on April 23, 2010 in Palanga, Lithuania. The theme of the symposium was “Paraphilias and Sexual Abuse.” About 300 clinicians, researchers and public health administrators attended the symposium.
Dr. Florence Thibaut, Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Medicine in Rouen, France, and the President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) gave the Plenary Lecture, "Guidelines for the biological treatment of paraphilias."
Leo Sher, M.D.
Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, an international scientific journal affiliated with the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and the Lithuanian Society of Biological Psychiatry, invites authors to submit papers.
Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology focuses upon clinical and basic science contributions that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior. The journal publishes editorials, reviews, research reports, commentaries, case reports, conference reports, letters to the editor, and book reviews.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with significant neuroendocrine changes including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis abnormalities (1). Several research groups have used the combined dexamethasone suppression-corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation (DST–CRH) test to examine the HPA function in traumatized individuals.
Suicide rate has been extremely high in Hungary for years. The Hungarian suicide behaviour is a curious phenomenon and the suicide rate is high among the Hungarian people all over the worlds.
PLoS Medicine, a journal published by the Public Library of Science (2008 Impact Factor = 12.185) has just published the article, "Secondary Prevention of Suicide" by Debora Ganz, M. Dolores Braquehais, and Leo Sher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. To open the article in PDF format, please click here.
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