Internet and Psychiatry

Leo Sher, M.D.

The article, "Death in Uniform" written by William Glenn, a Canadian journalist has been published in the "Canada's Occupational Health and Safety Magazine" (1). The author writes about suicide among Canadian military veterans. He notes that “Age-specific analyses showed male veterans aged 16 to 44 were about one and a half times more likely to commit suicide, while women between 40 and 44 were more than twice as likely to die from suicide as their same-age counterparts in the general population.”

Leo Sher, M.D.

The First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development will be held in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 2-5, 2012. The meetings is being organized by Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, USA; and a Distinguished Guest of our website, “www.internetandpsychiatry.com” (please, see the “Distinguished Guests” section of our web site).

Leo Sher, M.D.

The article, “Brain stimulation in posttraumatic stress disorder” by Vladan Novakovic, Leo Sher, Kyle A.B. Lapidus, Janet Mindes, Julia A.Golier and Rachel Yehuda has been published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2011, 2: 5609 - DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.5609). The Publisher states, “This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.” Therefore, we can publish this article on our website. To read the article, please click here.

Leo Sher, M.D.

The 7th Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry, “Neuroimmunology and Mental Disorders“ was held on August 26-27, 2011 in Palanga, Lithuania. Professor Robertas Bunevicius is the principal organizer of the Symposium. For more information, please click here.

Leo Sher, M.D.

On behalf of the Editors, Contributors, and Distinguished Guests of internetandpsychiatry.com, I am happy to congratulate our highly esteemed colleague, Contributor and Distinguished Guest Dr. Maria Dolores Braquehais Conesa and her husband, Mr. Jose Manuel Sanchez Tapia on the birth of their son, Sergio Sanchez Braquehais. We wish Sergio and his parents a lot of happiness and the best success in their endeavors.

Leo Sher, M.D.

The “II International Congress on Dual Disorders: Addictive Behaviours and other Mental Disorders” will be held on October 5-8, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. Miguel Casas, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Head, Servei de Psiquiatria, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, is the Congress Chairman. Researchers and clinicians from many countries including Spain, USA, Hungary, Norway, UK, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Netherlands, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and France will participate in the Congress.