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    • Cardiac Rehabilitation, Exercise Training, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Depression/Anxiety
    • Models of suicide, sense and reference
    • II International Congress on Dual Disorders -- Part I
    • II International Congress on Dual Disorders -- Part II
    • Early-onset exposed: Parents’ rightful disconcertion over early adolescent marijuana use
    • The Hippocratic Oath
    • Suicide survivors and Suicide prevention - should there be a link?
    • The MMI Marathon
    • Celexa (citalopram hydrobromide) may cause changes in the electrical activity of the heart
    • The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), a leading world scientific organization
    • Cell phones, driving and mortality
    • Psychotropic medications, driving, and mobile phones
    • Comment on the article, "Cell phones and driving" by Leo Sher, M.D.
    • Cell phones and driving: political and economic issues
    • The Mount Sinai Medical Center is one of the best hospitals in the United States
    • Cell phones and driving: comment
    • Cell phones and driving
    • 10th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. May 29 - June 2, 2011. Prague, Czech Republic
    • Temperaments and psychopathology
    • Cell phones and brain tumors
    • The Social Status of Physicians
    • Utilizing Time and Optimizing Treatment
    • Comment on the article, "The social status of physicians and the quality of health care" by Leo Sher, M. D.
    • Electroencephalographic criteria of epileptic syndrome in patients with parkinsonism
    • Juggling Academic Ability and Cultural Curiosity
    • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neuropsychiatric disorders
    • Perspectives on Medicine from Prospective Physicians
    • The social status of doctors and quality of care
    • Doctors: where we are?
    • Physicians: the social status and morale
    • The social status of physicians and the quality of health care
    • Factors for successful completion of inpatient heroin detoxification program
    • The importance of preventing child maltreatment
    • About mental illiteracy: deficits of mental health promotion and primordial prevention in psychiatry
    • Exercise Training, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Psychosocial Stress
    • A case-control study of risk factors for suicide in Hungary
    • Some facts about your festive tipple
    • Impaired Driving Dilemma Continues to Challenge Physicians
    • Body Mass Index and Health
    • When collecting becomes pathological: phenomenological considerations
    • The problem of obesity
    • Why depression isn't recognised in Primary Care Practice in Hungary?
    • The contradictions and possibilities of suicide prevention programs in Hungary
    • The combined dexamethasone suppression-corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation (DEX-CRH) test and traumatic stress
    • Is suicide a Hungarian phenomenon?
    • The combined dexamethasone suppression-corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation (DEX-CRH) test
    • Complex System Theories are necessary for a better understanding of our biopsychosociocultural constitution
    • The weekly distribution of suicides in Japan
    • The weekly distribution of suicides in Bacs-Kiskun County, Hungary
    • In Memoriam: Hungarian National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology
    • A tragic story
    • Thomas Jefferson, a Great American Statesman
    • Transcranial magnetic stimulation and depression
    • When to head scan in psychiatry
    • Depression and Family Phisicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Sustainable Health Care?
    • PTSD, depression and suicidal behavior in war veterans
    • Loss, trauma and suicide in war survivors
    • The weekly distribution of suicides in Akita prefecture, Japan
    • The concept of post-traumatic mood disorder
    • Encouraging or Preventing Suicide via the Internet
    • Firearms and suicide among veterans
    • The Fort Hood tragedy and mental health among physicians
    • Suicide in Art
    • Online shopping in bipolar disorder
    • The role of current socio-cultural models in the increased prevalence of impulsive behaviours
    • Suicide in the U.S. military
    • Suicide completers and attempters
    • Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
    • Association of PTSD and other Mental Health Disorders with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans
    • Science and human behaviour
    • Guns and Health
    • The role of the different disturbances of perception in the development of the psychiatric signs and symptoms
    • Mental disorder categories are not "aseptic" scientific schema
    • Men who marry younger women live longer
  • News
    • A new article on suicide in the military
    • The First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development - an Update
    • A new review article on brain stimulation in posttraumatic stress disorder
    • The Second Conference Update - 2011
    • Best Wishes!
    • II International Congress on Dual Disorders
    • 7th Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry
    • "Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees" has been published!
    • "Neurobiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder" has been published!
    • Conference Update – 2011
    • First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development
    • WFSBP created a new Task Force
    • "Suicidal behavior in alcohol and drug abuse and dependence" has been published!
    • Modern lifestyles and sleep restriction
    • The gender factor in life science research: the economic gap between men and women after controlling for professional characteristics
    • Biological Psychiatry Symposium
    • Call for Papers - Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
    • New Article on Suicide Prevention
    • Chocolate and Depression
    • Diet high in processed food and risk for depression
    • Chapter abstracts
    • Closing a loop on aiding suicides
    • WFSBP News - April 2010
    • Maria Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. – New Appointment
    • Good News
    • Translational neuroscience may inform treatment development for posttraumatic stress disorder
    • Abstracts of the "War and Suicide," "Suicide in the Military" and "Terror and Suicide" chapters
    • Book Publishing News - March 2010
    • Conference News - March 2010
    • "Terror and Suicide" has been published!
    • Earthquake strikes Chile
    • "Suicide in the Military" has been published!
    • WSFBP News - February 2010
    • Tragedy in Alabama
    • Conference News - February 2010
    • "War and Suicide" has been published!
    • WFSBP News - January 2010
    • Leo Sher, M.D. - New Appointment
    • VI Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry
    • WFSBP News - October 2009
    • A  ban  on  cigarettes containing certain characterizing flavors
    • The 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry
    • Put Down the Phone
    • Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak - May 31, 2009 Update
    • A Tragedy Over the Atlantic Ocean
  • Research
    • A history of trauma exposure is associated with changes in the 5 HT1B receptor function
  • Full-text articles
    • Society and Politics
    • Epidemiology and Public Health
    • Physiology and Pathophysiology
    • Diagnosis and Treatment
• Topics
  • Human Rights
    • Attitudes to coercion at two Norwegian psychiatric units
    • Coercion in psychiatric care: systematic review of correlates and themes
    • Human dignity: intrinsic or relative value?
    • The lived experience of victims of crime
    • Is there a right not to know one's sex? The ethics of 'gender verification' in women's sports competition
    • The question of the constitutional case against suicide: an historiographical and originalist inquiry into the degree to which the theory of the inalienable right to life and liberty is enforced by the Thirteenth Amendment
    • Experience of human rights violations and subsequent mental disorders - A study following the war in the Balkans
    • Feelings of betrayal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and emotionally distressed Sudanese refugees in Cairo
    • Medical care for terrorists - to treat or not to treat?
    • Association of sexual violence and human rights violations with physical and mental health in territories of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • Predictors of psychological sequelae of torture among South African former political prisoners
    • Health-Related Quality of Life and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Political Prisoners of the Former GDR
    • Mental health service users' perceptions and experiences of sedation, seclusion and restraint
    • Human rights and the trauma model: Genuine partners or uneasy allies?
    • Dignity violation in health care
    • Seeking assent and respecting dissent in dementia research
    • Ethical issues in forensic psychiatric research on mentally disordered offenders
    • Ethical and human rights imperatives to ensure medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence in prisons and pre-trial detention
    • Behavioral genetic research: achievements and concerns
    • The ethical basis of psychiatric research: conceptual issues and empirical findings
    • Ethical issues in psychiatric research on children and adolescents
    • Coerced medication in psychiatric inpatient care: literature review
  • Mood Disorders
    • Depression
      • Cyclothymic-depressive-anxious temperament pattern is related to suicide risk in 346 patients with major mood disorders.
      • The antidepressant hyperforin increases the phosphorylation of CREB and the expression of TrkB in a tissue-specific manner.
      • Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor level in relation to illness severity and episode duration in patients with major depression.
      • Disturbance of perception in depressive disorders in the different diagnostical systems.
      • Clinical significance of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of pharmacoresistant depression: synthesis of recent data.
      • Exploring preoperational features in chronic depression
      • Religious attendance reduces cognitive decline among older women with high levels of depressive symptoms
      • Religious involvement and risk of major depression in a prospective nationwide study of African American adults
      • Omega-3 fatty acids in major depressive disorder
      • Lower cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed suicide attempters
      • Effect of acute antidepressant administration on negative affective bias in depressed patients
      • A molecular signature of depression in the amygdala
      • Functional Connectivity Bias of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Drug-Free Patients with Major Depression.
      • Antidepressants and diabetes
    • Bipolar Disorder
      • Treatment of suicide attempters with bipolar disorder: a randomized clinical trial comparing lithium and valproate in the prevention of suicidal behavior
      • Temperaments mediate suicide risk and psychopathology among patients with bipolar disorders
      • A prospective study of the association of cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite levels with lethality of suicide attempts in patients with bipolar disorder
      • MRI brain activation in first-episode bipolar mania during a response inhibition task
    • Seasonal Affective Disorder
      • Seasonal Affective Disorder
      • Controlled trial of naturalistic dawn simulation and negative air ionization for seasonal affective disorder
      • The role of genetic factors in the etiology of seasonal affective disorder and seasonality
      • What is this thing called "SAD"? A critique of the concept of Seasonal Affective Disorder
      • Association between seasonal affective disorder and the 5-HT2A promoter polymorphism, -1438G/A
      • A circadian signal of change of season in patients with seasonal affective disorder
      • Free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in patients with seasonal affective disorder and matched controls
      • The chronobiology and neurobiology of winter seasonal affective disorder
      • A birth-season/DRD4 gene interaction predicts weight gain and obesity in women with seasonal affective disorder: A seasonal thrifty phenotype hypothesis
      • Pleiotropy of the serotonin transporter gene for seasonality and neuroticism
      • The Can-SAD study: a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of light therapy and fluoxetine in patients with winter seasonal affective disorder
      • The prevalence of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in Greenland is related to latitude.
      • Seasonal affective disorder. A description of the syndrome and preliminary findings with light therapy.
      • Somatic therapies for seasonal affective disorder.
      • A model for self-treatment of four sub-types of symptomatic 'depression' using non-prescription agents: neuroticism (anxiety and emotional instability); malaise (fatigue and painful symptoms); demotivation (anhedonia) and seasonal affective disorder 'SAD'
      • Early response to light therapy partially predicts long-term antidepressant effects in patients with seasonal affective disorder.
      • Review of the first year of an overseas military gambling treatment program
  • Anxiety Disorders
    • A systematic review of the quality and impact of anxiety disorder meta-analyses
    • Etiology and pathogenesis of anxiety disorders
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
    • Posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and suicide in veterans
    • Traumatic Grief and Traumatic Stress in Survivors 12 years after the Genocide in Rwanda
    • The Effect of Early Trauma Exposure on Serotonin Type 1B Receptor Expression Revealed by Reduced Selective Radioligand Binding
    • Differential immune system DNA methylation and cytokine regulation in post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Treatment of war trauma in veterans: pharmacotherapy and self-help proposal
    • Health-related quality of life two years after injury due to terrorism
    • Hydrocortisone responsiveness in Gulf War veterans with PTSD: effects on ACTH, declarative memory hippocampal [(18)F]FDG uptake on PET
    • Paternal predictors of the mental health of children of Vietnamese refugees
    • Suicidal behavior in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder
    • British prisoners-of-war: from resilience to psychological vulnerability: reality or perception
    • Spiritual Well-Being, Cortisol, and Suicidality in Croatian War Veterans Suffering from PTSD
    • The "torpillage" neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front
    • A model of suicidal behavior in war veterans with posttraumatic mood disorder
    • Prazosin versus quetiapine for nighttime posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in veterans: an assessment of long-term comparative effectiveness and safety
    • Military-Related Sexual Trauma Among Veterans Health Administration Patients Returning From Afghanistan and Iraq
    • The role of endogenous opioids in the placebo effect in post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Posttraumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for suicidal ideation in Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans
    • Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election
    • Effects of repeated deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the health of New Jersey Army National Guard troops: implications for military readiness
    • Higher cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder.
    • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Completed Suicide
    • Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers.
    • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
    • Posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, depression, and meaning in life among military veterans
    • Problem gambling in Australian PTSD treatment-seeking veterans
  • Alcohol and Drug Abuse
    • Predictors of suicide-related hospitalization among U.S. veterans receiving treatment for comorbid depression and substance dependence: who is the riskiest of the risky?
    • Risk factors for cocaine-induced psychosis in cocaine-dependent patients
    • What can allostasis tell us about anabolic-androgenic steroid addiction?
    • The effect of risky alcohol use and smoking on suicide risk: findings from the German MONICA/KORA-Augsburg Cohort Study
    • Violent and nonviolent suicide in veterans with substance-use disorders
    • Alcoholism and suicidal behavior: a clinical overview
    • Alcohol Use and Abuse
    • Heavy drinking: medical consequences
    • Alcohol and Sexual Behavior
    • Alcohol and testosterone
    • Women and Alcohol
    • Alcohol and Violence
    • Alcohol and the brain
    • Alcohol and Driving
    • Forced sexual intercourse, suicidality, and binge drinking among adolescent girls
    • Alcohol and adolescent suicide
    • Acupuncture and Alcohol Dependence
    • Alcohol cardio-protection has been talked up
    • Sleep disorders in substance abusers: how common are they?
    • Increasing leptin precedes craving and relapse during pharmacological abstinence maintenance treatment of alcoholism
    • Association of the dopamine transporter gene with alcoholism
    • Effect of acute alcohol use on the lethality of suicide attempts in patients with mood disorders.
    • A new method of linkage analysis using LOD scores for quantitative traits supports linkage of monoamine oxidase activity to D17S250 in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism pedigrees
    • Scanning of genetic effects of alcohol metabolism gene (ADH1B and ADH1C) polymorphisms on the risk of alcoholism
    • Endocannabinoid lipids and mediated system: Implications for alcoholism and neuropsychiatric disorders
    • Effects of co-occurring alcohol abuse on the course of bipolar disorder following a first hospitalization for mania
    • Patterns of alcohol consumption in bipolar patients comorbid for alcohol abuse or dependence
    • Methamphetamine and alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: associations with affect lability and impulsivity in a rural treatment population
    • Alcohol abuse in Russian delinquent adolescents. Associations with comorbid psychopathology, personality and parenting
    • Developmentally regulated actions of alcohol on hippocampal glutamatergic transmission
    • An epidemiological study on alcohol/drugs related fatal traffic crash cases of deceased drivers in Hong Kong between 1996 and 2000
    • Health risks of chronic moderate and heavy alcohol consumption: how much is too much?
    • Alcohol consumption and cognitive function in late life: a longitudinal community study
    • Why My Classmates Drink: Drinking Motives of Classroom Peers as Predictors of Individual Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use in Adolescence--a Mediational Model
    • Alcohol use and suicide rates
    • Neonatal alcohol exposure permanently disrupts the circadian properties and photic entrainment of the activity rhythm in adult rats
    • Alcohol expectancies, conduct disorder and early-onset alcoholism: negative alcohol expectancies are associated with less drinking in non-impulsive versus impulsive subjects
    • Can experimental paradigms and animal models be used to discover clinically effective medications for alcoholism?
    • From Alcoholism Treatment to the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England: An Overview of Alcohol Policy since 1950
    • Early puberty and adolescent pregnancy: the influence of alcohol use
    • Alcoholism: the dissection for endophenotypes
    • Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for anxiety and depression: Results from the longitudinal follow-up of the National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey
    • High Throughput Pharmacological Screening for Lead Compounds at Molecular Targets of Relevance to Alcohol Dependence
    • Prediction of Alcohol Problems Using A Prospective Longitudinal Design Including Genotype
    • Neuropeptide Y and Melanocortin Neuropeptides Regulate Alcohol Intake and Feeding: Are Overlapping Pathways Involved?
    • Dual Diagnosis and Drinking Behaviors in an Outpatient Treatment Seeking Sample of Adolescents with Alcohol Use Disorders
    • Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regional Brain Metabolic Responses to a Serotonergic Challenge in Major Depressive Disorder with and Without Comorbid Alcohol Dependence
    • Stress, Alcohol, and Fluvoxamine: Composing the Score for a Dissonant ConSERT
    • Effects of Acute Plasma Tryptophan Depletion on Serotonin Receptor Binding Using PET in Healthy Controls: Implications for Alcoholic Brain Disease
    • Dysregulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Alcohol-Dependent Self-Administering Rats
    • CNS Serotonergic Functioning, Alcohol, Genotype X by Rearing Interactions and Violence Using a Nonhuman Primate Model
    • The relationship of aggression to suicidal behavior in depressed patients with a history of alcoholism
    • Alcoholism is a disinhibitory disorder: neurophysiological evidence from a Go/No-Go task
    • The consumption of cigarettes, coffee and sweets in detoxified alcoholics and its association with relapse and a family history of alcoholism
    • Cognitive biases toward alcohol-related words and executive deficits in polysubstance abusers with alcoholism
    • Clinical features of depressed patients with or without a family history of alcoholism
    • Alcohol consumption among teenagers in Brazzaville (Congo)
    • Effect of chronic alcoholism on male fertility hormones and semen quality
    • Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions
    • Epidemiology of sepsis: race, sex, and chronic alcohol abuse
    • Home visits during pregnancy and after birth for women with an alcohol or drug problem
    • Decsion Making of Heavy Cannabis Users on the Iowa Gambling Task: Stronger Association with THC of Hair Analysis than with Personality Traits of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire
    • Familial influences on alcohol use in adolescent female twins: testing for genetic and environmental interactions
    • Relation between rates of suicide in 15-24-year-olds and per capita consumption of alcohol beverages in European countries
  • Compulsive Gambling
    • Pupil Dilation Signals Surprise: Evidence for Noradrenaline's Role in Decision Making
    • Partial Agonist Therapy in Schizophrenia: Relevance to Diminished Criminal Responsibility
    • Gambling and Problem Gambling Across the Lifespan
    • Treatments for PTSD and Pathological Gambling: What Do Patients Want?
    • Impulse control disorders
    • What is gambling
    • Internet gambling
    • Gambling as a medical problem
    • Gambling and substance abuse
    • Neurobiology of gambling
    • Pathological gambling subtypes
    • Neurobiology of pathological gambling
    • Changing Spousal Roles and Their Effect on Recovery in Gamblers Anonymous: GamAnon, Social Support, Wives and Husbands
    • Wives of pathological gamblers: personality traits, depressive symptoms and social adjustment
    • Characteristics of pathological gamblers with a problem gambling parent
    • Antisocial personality disorder is associated with increased severity of gambling, medical, drug and psychiatric problems among treatment-seeking pathological gamblers
    • Using Neural Networks to Model the Behavior and Decisions of Gamblers, in Particular, Cyber-Gamblers
    • The impact of comorbidity on the management of pathological gambling
    • Barriers to Seeking Help for Gambling Problems: A Review of the Empirical Literature
    • Problem gamblers share deficits in impulsive decision-making with alcohol-dependent individuals
    • Problem and pathological gambling are associated with poorer mental and physical health in older adults
    • Older adults as adaptive decision makers: evidence from the Iowa Gambling Task
    • A psychological autopsy study of pathological gamblers who died by suicide
    • An uncontrollable gambling addiction
    • research reports on pathological gambling at the 60th Annual Convention of the Society of Biological Psychiatry
    • Personality and problem gambling: a prospective study of a birth cohort of young adults
    • Wins, Winning and Winners: The Commercial Advertising of Lottery Gambling
    • Shared genetic contributions to pathological gambling and major depression in men
    • Heart rate arousal and excitement in gambling: Winners versus losers
    • How Do Gamblers End Gambling: Longitudinal Analysis of Internet Gambling Behaviors Prior to Account Closure Due to Gambling Related Problems
    • Comparison of Temperament and Character Between Early- and Late-Onset Korean Male Pathological Gamblers
    • Instant Ticket Purchasing by Ontario Baby Boomers: Increasing Risk for Problem Gamblers
    • Gambling behavior and gambling problems in Norway 2007
    • Strength of commitment language in motivational interviewing and gambling outcomes
    • Correlates of gambling among youth in an inner-city emergency department
    • Pathological Gambling: Influence of Quality of Life and Psychological Distress on Abstinence After Cognitive-Behavioral Inpatient Treatment
    • Outcome of psychological treatments of pathological gambling: a review and meta-analysis
    • Pokies and poverty: problem gambling risk factor geography in New Zealand
    • Discrepancy between feedback negativity and subjective evaluation in gambling
    • The association of form of gambling with problem gambling among American youth
    • Cortisol and Heart Rate Measures during Casino Gambling in Relation to Impulsivity
    • The application of youth substance use media campaigns to problem gambling: a critical evaluation
    • Gambling and problem gambling among recently sentenced women in New Zealand prisons
    • Gambling and Problem Gambling among Recently Sentenced Male Prisoners in Four New Zealand Prisons
    • The role of perceived control and overconfidence in pathological gambling
    • Multicenter investigation of the opioid antagonist nalmefene in the treatment of pathological gambling
    • Natural recovery and treatment-seeking in pathological gambling: results of two U.S. National surveys
    • Episodic chasing in pathological gamblers using the Iowa gambling task
    • Treatment of pathological gambling
    • Is control a viable goal in the treatment of pathological gambling?
    • Gambling, alcohol, and other substance use among youth in the United States.
    • Responsible gambling: is it an alternative for prevention and treatment of pathological gambling?
    • Health correlates of pathological gambling in a methadone maintenance clinic
    • Update on pathological gambling
    • Severity of gambling is associated with physical and emotional health in urban primary care patients
    • Sustained Release Buproprion versus Naltrexone in the Treatment of Pathological Gambling
    • Impulsivity in Problem Gambling: a Common Marker across Addictive Behaviours?
    • Noradrenergic Function in Pathological Gambling
    • Dopamine Genes and Pathological Gambling in Discordant Sib-Pairs
    • Prevalence and health correlates of gambling problems in substance abuse counselors
    • Comorbidity on disorders with loss of impulse-control: pathological gambling, addictions and personality disorders
    • Risk of harm among gamblers in the general population as a function of level of participation in gambling activities
    • Neurocognitive functions in pathological gambling: a comparison with alcohol dependence, Tourette syndrome and normal controls
    • A framework for reporting outcomes in problem gambling treatment research: the Banff, Alberta Consensus
  • Other Psychiatric Disorders
    • Acute hemolysis following iodine tincture ingestion
    • The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the pathophysiology of adolescent suicidal behavior.
    • Efficacy and safety of prolonged-release OROS methylphenidate in adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A 13-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, fixed-dose study
    • Suicidal ideation among national guard troops deployed to Iraq: the association with postdeployment readjustment problems
    • Low plasma vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) associated with completed suicide
    • Teaching health care professionals about suicide safety planning
    • Hopelessness, temperament, anger and interpersonal relationships in Holocaust (Shoah) survivors' grandchildren
    • An evolutionary hypothesis of suicide: why it could be biologically adaptive and is so prevalent in certain occupations
    • Acculturative stress as a risk factor of depression and anxiety in the Latin American immigrant population
    • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and suicidal behavior
    • Ethical considerations in psychiatric profiling of political figures
    • Impact of Business Cycles on US Suicide Rates, 1928-2007
    • Remembering a nuclear accident in Japan: did it trigger flashbulb memories?
    • The association between childhood physical and sexual abuse and functioning and psychiatric symptoms in a sample of U.S. Army soldiers
    • Suicide: Psychological autopsy, a research tool for prevention
    • A 25 Year Retrospective Review of the Psychological Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident
    • Disorganizing Experiences in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors
    • The memory paradox
    • Acceptance of suicide in Moscow
    • The Politics of Hope and Despair: the effect of presidential election outcomes on suicide rates
    • Neurobehavioral dynamics following chronic sleep restriction: dose-response effects of one night for recovery
    • A systematic review of suicide prevention programs for military or veterans
    • Delusions of persecution and poisoning in patients with schizophrenia: sociocultural and religious background
    • Suicidal and homicidal soldiers in deployment environments.
    • Preventing suicide
    • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders
    • The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and serotonin abnormalities: a selective overview for the implications of suicide prevention
    • Interaction of FKBP5, a Stress-Related Gene, with Childhood Trauma Increases the Risk for Attempting Suicide
    • Vitamin C function in the brain: vital role of the ascorbate transporter SVCT2
    • Economic crisis and mental health
    • Does Religiosity Protect Against Cognitive and Behavioral Decline in Alzheimer's Dementia?
    • Vitamin D, nervous system and aging
    • The new types of addiction
    • Unaltered Neuronal and Glial Counts in Animal Models of Magnetic Seizure Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy
    • Principles for the wise use of computers by children
    • A pilot study on differences in aggression in New York City and Madrid, Spain, and their possible impact on suicidal behavior
    • Obesity, weight loss, and suicide
    • Internet addiction: a descriptive clinical study focusing on comorbidities and dissociative symptoms
    • Functional connectivity of reward processing in the brain
    • Obesity and its relationship to addictions: is overeating a form of addictive behavior?
    • Vitamin D and Brain Power
    • The prevalence of computer and Internet addiction among pupils
    • Science Declares Happiness is Contagious
    • Youth Internet use: risks and opportunities
    • Creativity and Mental Illness
    • Adult outcomes of youth irritability: a 20-year prospective community-based study
    • Blood sugar and cognitive aging
    • Fear of terrorism and vulnerable populations
    • Legal bans on pro-suicide web sites: an early retrospective from Australia
    • Investigation of Mentalizing and Visuospatial Perspective Taking for Self and Other in Asperger Syndrome
  • Neurological Disorders
    • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an Iraqi war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder who committed suicide.
    • Suicidality and veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury: Precipitants events, protective factors, and prevention strategies
    • Tourette's syndrome: performance on tests of behavioural inhibition, working memory and gambling
    • Psychotic and compulsive symptoms in Parkinson's disease
  • General Medicine
    • The therapeutic value of laughter in medicine
    • Ageing Holocaust survivors in Australia
    • Should doctors wear white coats?
    • Holocaust survivors: the pain behind the agony. Increased prevalence of fibromyalgia among Holocaust survivors
    • Dual-process action of exercise on appetite control: increase in orexigenic drive but improvement in meal-induced satiety
    • Obesity, exercise and cardiovascular disease risk
    • Cardiac risk assessment before the use of stimulant medications in children and youth: A joint position statement by the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Daylight Saving Time and Health
    • New deadly virus
  • Disaster Medicine
    • KAMEDO report no. 78: nuclear accident in Japan, 1999
    • Concerns of Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) members about troubles at the nuclear power plant: experience from the Niigata Chuetsu-Oki earthquake, 16 July 2007, in Japan
  • Sexual Behavior
    • The Effects of Experimentally-Induced Sad and Happy Mood on Sexual Arousal in Sexually Healthy Women
    • The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Sexual Sadism
    • Spirituality and Well-Being: The Relationship Between Religious Coping and Recovery From Sexual Assault
    • The Association Between Sexual Satisfaction and Body Image in Women
  • Biomedical Science
    • Possible role of BDNF-induced microglial intracellular Ca(2+) elevation in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
    • Subtypes of GABAergic neurons project axons in the neocortex
    • Dominance, politics, and physiology: voters' testosterone changes on the night of the 2008 United States presidential election
    • NO signaling in the CNS: from the physiological to the pathological
    • Differential sensitivity of oligodendrocytes and motor neurons to reactive nitrogen species: implications for multiple sclerosis
    • Mitigation of peroxynitrite-mediated nitric oxide (NO) toxicity as a mechanism of induced adaptive NO resistance in the CNS
• Books
  • Internet and Suicide
  • Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees
  • Neurobiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Suicidal Behavior in Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Dependence
  • War and Suicide
  • Terror and Suicide
  • Suicide in the Military
  • Alcohol and Suicide: Research and Clinical Perspectives
  • Adolescence and Alcohol. An international perspective
  • Psychological Factors and Cardiovascular Disorders: The Role of Stress and Psychosocial Influences
  • Psychological Factors and Cardiovascular Disorders: The Role of Psychiatric Pathology and Maladaptive Personality Features
  • Alcohol-Related Cognitive Disorders: Research and Clinical Perspectives
  • Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders
  • Research on the Neurobiology of Alcohol Use Disorders
• Editors
  • Leo Sher, M.D.
  • Alexander Vilens, M.S.
• Guests
  • Distinguished Guests
    • Eduardo Jesus Aguilar Garcia-Iturrospe, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Amy L. Ai, Ph.D.
    • Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D., M.Phil., M.F.A.
    • Mikkel Arendt, Ph.D.
    • Shirley Avrami, Ph.D.
    • Maria Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Robertas Bunevicius, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
    • Wieslaw Jerzy Cubala, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Malgorzata Dragan, Ph.D.
    • Tatiana Elistratova, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Mohammed ELFaramawi, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., M.S.
    • Frances Finnigan, Ph.D.
    • Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Debora Ganz, B.A.
    • Jaanus Harro, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Brit Haver, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Andreas Heinz, M.D.
    • Sandor Kalmar M.D., Ph.D.
    • Hristina Koleva, M.D.
    • Hristo Kozhuharov, M.D.
    • Philipp Kuwert, M.D.
    • Carl (Chip) Lavie, Jr., M.D., FACC, FACP, FCCP
    • Steven Lippmann, M.D.
    • Donatella Marazziti, M.D.
    • Graham J. McDougall Jr, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FGSA
    • Joav Merrick, M.D., MMedSci, D.M.Sc
    • Anne Maria Moeller-Leimkuehler, PD Dr.rer.soc.
    • Puneet Narang, M.D.
    • Yuval Neria, Ph.D
    • Alexander Neumeister, M.D.
    • Vladan Novakovic, M.D.
    • Jorge Ospina-Duque, M.D.
    • Maurizio Pompili, M.D.
    • Dainius Puras, M.D.
    • Paul G. Quinnett, Ph.D.
    • Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
    • Zoltan Rihmer, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
    • Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D.
    • Ioana Todor, Ph.D.
    • Lil Traskman-Bendz, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.
    • Amra Zalihic, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Tamas Zonda, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Our Contributors
  • Eduardo Jesus Aguilar Garcia-Iturrospe, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Amy L. Ai, Ph.D.
  • Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D., M.Phil., M.F.A.
  • Mikkel Arendt, Ph.D.
  • Shirley Avrami, Ph.D.
  • Maria Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Robertas Bunevicius, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
  • Wieslaw Jerzy Cubala, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Malgorzata Dragan, Ph.D.
  • Tatiana Elistratova, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Mohammed ELFaramawi, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., M.S.
  • Frances Finnigan, Ph.D.
  • Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Debora Ganz, B.A.
  • Jaanus Harro, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Brit Haver, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Andreas Heinz, M.D.
  • Sandor Kalmar M.D., Ph.D.
  • Hristina Koleva, M.D.
  • Hristo Kozhuharov, M.D.
  • Philipp Kuwert, M.D.
  • Carl (Chip) Lavie, Jr., M.D., FACC, FACP, FCCP
  • Steven Lippmann, M.D.
  • Donatella Marazziti, M.D.
  • Graham J. McDougall Jr, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FGSA
  • Joav Merrick, M.D., MMedSci, D.M.Sc
  • Anne Maria Moeller-Leimkuehler, PD Dr.rer.soc.
  • Puneet Narang, M.D.
  • Yuval Neria, Ph.D
  • Alexander Neumeister, M.D.
  • Vladan Novakovic, M.D.
  • Jorge Ospina-Duque, M.D.
  • Maurizio Pompili, M.D.
  • Dainius Puras, M.D.
  • Paul G. Quinnett, Ph.D.
  • Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
  • Zoltan Rihmer, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
  • Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D.
  • Ioana Todor, Ph.D.
  • Lil Traskman-Bendz, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.
  • Amra Zalihic, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Tamas Zonda, M.D., Ph.D.
• Reflections
  • Poetry
    • Emily Dickinson: The Brain-is wider than the Sky- (1924)
    • Mihaly Babits: Jonah's Prayer
    • William Blake: Auguries of Innocence
    • Lord Byron: When we two are parted
    • Constantine P. Cavafy: Ithaca (1911)
    • Giacomo Leopardi: Love and Death
    • Rumi: Guest House
    • Walt Whitman: Kosmos
    • William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
  • Quotes
    • Democritus
    • Winston Churchill
    • Elbert Hubbard
    • Albert Einstein
    • Hippocrates
    • Thomas Jefferson

Chapter Abstracts

• Comorbidity of Depression & Alcohol Use Disorders
  • The Epidemiology of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence
  • The Relationship between Depression, Alcohol Use Disorder and Coping Motives for Drinking among Canadian Men and Women
  • The Alcohol-Depression Hypothesis: Gender and the Prevalence of Depression among Jews
  • Addressing Alcohol Use among Depressed Patients
  • Treatment of Comorbid Depression and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence with Antidepressant Medications
  • Alcohol Misuse and Seasonal Changes in Mood and Behavior
  • Adolescence: The Emergence of Alcohol Use and Depressive Disorders
  • Clinical Features of Comorbid Depression and Alcohol Abuse in Adolescents
  • Parental Influences on Internalizing and Externalizing Pathways to Alcohol Use and Alcohol Related Problems
  • The Consequences of Parental Alcohol Abuse for Psychiatric Problems in Adolescence
  • The Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Deficits in the Ability to Cope with Stress: Attachment Theory as a Framework for Understanding the Etiology of Suicidal Behavior and Alcohol Use Disorders
  • Neuropathology of Depression, Alcoholism, and Their Comorbidity in the Human Prefrontal Cortex
• Immigration and Mental Health
  • A Model of Suicidal Behavior among Immigrants with Psychiatric Disorders
  • Immigration and Suicide: An Overview
  • Immigrants and Suicidal Behavior: The Role of Gender
  • Suicidal Behavior among Hispanic Immigrants in the United States
  • Suicidality and Acculturation in Hispanic Adolescents
  • Suicide amongst Britain’s Immigrant population: data sources, analytical approaches, and main findings
  • The Effects of Immigration on the mental health of adolescents: Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Substance abuse, Delinquent and suicidal behavior among immigrant youth
  • Acculturation and Mental Disorders among Immigrants
  • Immigration, Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Distress, with Focus on Perceived Control and Social Integration
  • Depression among Latinos in the United States
  • Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Depression among Haitians in the United States
  • Changes in the Psychological Well-Being of Immigrants: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study of Immigrant Adolescents Including the Pre-Migration Period
  • Mental Health Problems among Immigrants in Israel
  • Epidemiology of Mental Health Problems among Immigrants. Case of Korean Immigrants in Brazil
  • Successful Use of Mental Health Migration Models: The New Zealand Experience
  • Substance Use Disorder among Immigrants in the United States
  • Alcohol Drinking and Treatment among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel: Review of Recent Publications January 2007-June 2009
  • The Motives for Migration
  • The Social and Cultural Context of Immigration and Stress
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Integration of Biological and Psychosocial Aspects
  • Impulsivity: A New Concept for an Old Idea
  • Not Just another Pretty Face: The Cross-Cultural Perception and Social Ramifications of Facial Attractiveness
• Internet and Suicide
  • The Internet in suicide prevention and promotion
  • The Internet: Its role in the occurrence and prevention of suicide
  • The advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet in preventing suicide
  • Web-based suicide prevention education: Innovations in research, training, and practice
  • Improving public health practice in suicide prevention through online training: A case example
  • Internet resources for preventing suicide
  • Preventing suicide through the Internet
  • Warning signs for suicide: Safe and effective information delivery online
  • A potential source of data in understanding youth suicide — Instant messages
  • Internet and emerging suicide method. A case study of contagion of charcoal burning suicides via the internet
  • "I am so sick of this life": A semiotic analysis of suicidal messages on the Internet
  • The internet and suicide pacts
  • Internet as a healing or killing tool in youth suicide phenomenon
  • Exploring self-injury and suicide in relation to self-harm discussion groups on the Internet
  • "Across the street – not down the road" - staying alive through deliberate self-harm
  • Borderline personality, contagion, and the Internet
  • Information for crisis intervention and suicide prevention resources for individuals with substance use disorders on the Internet
  • Effect of mass media on suicidal behavior in patients with psychotic disorders
  • The use of the internet for research on suicides in the elderly
  • For better or for worse? Suicide and the Internet in the World Today
  • Media suicide-reports, Internet use and the incidence of suicides in Japan
  • Internet-associated suicide in Japan
  • Hard-to-reach populations and stigmatized topics: Internet-based mental health research for Japanese men who are gay, bisexual, or questioning their sexual orientation
  • Suicide in china in the era of the Internet
  • Internet communication about assisted or "rational" suicide: legal and ethical considerations for practice
  • Can suicide be quantified and categorized?
  • Mental illness and suicide
  • The concept of post-traumatic mood disorder, suicidal behavior in war veterans and possible use of internet-based therapies in the treatment of war veterans with posttraumatic mood disorder
  • Internet suicide phenomenon in Japan
• Neurobiology of PTSD
  • The Role of NMDA Receptors in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Anxiety Syndromes
  • Extinction of Fear Conditioning: Relevance of Recent Findings for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  • A Preliminary Look at the Potential Role of the Endocannabinoid System in the Management of PTSD
  • The Use of Anesthesia in an Animal Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Translational Neuroscience and Treatment Development for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Suicidal Behavior in Alcohol and Drug Abuse...
  • Epidemiology of alcohol, tobacco and substance use
  • Serotonin dysfunction in alcoholism
  • Depressed-like behavior and alcohol drinking are co-morbid but independent in the fawn-hooded rats
  • Psychophysiological aspects of alcohol epileptic syndrome
  • Comorbidity of anxiety disorders with alcohol and drug abuse and dependence: a comprehensive review
  • Co-occurrence of substance use disorders with anxiety disorders: epidemiology, psychobiology, clinical features, and treatment
  • Alcohol dependence and PTSD comorbidity
  • Comorbidity of bipolar disorder with alcohol and/or drug abuse
  • Pharmacological treatment of alcohol, tobacco and substance use
  • Pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence
  • Management of acute psychiatric conditions in a dual diagnosis unit
  • Self-injurious behavior in individuals with alcohol and drug abuse and dependence
  • Epidemiological evidence for the link between suicide and substance use, abuse and dependence
  • Epidemiology of suicidal behavior in individuals with alcohol and/or drug abuse
  • Substance use disorders and risk of completed suicide
  • Psychosocial risk factors for suicide attempts among drug users
  • Links between personality, alcohol use, and suicide in emerging adulthood
  • Acute alcohol use and suicide attempts
  • Prevention of suicidal behavior in individuals with alcohol and/or drug abuse
  • Suicidal behavior among users of alcohol and illicit drugs
  • Bad together: Alcohol dependence, impulsivity and suicide
  • Suicidal behavior in alcohol use disorders: Neurobiological aspects
  • Socio-political dilemmas: Alcohol/substance abuse and suicide
  • Substance abuse and suicide risk among adolescents
  • Alcoholism and suicidal behavior in the elderly
  • Comorbid bipolar and substance use disorders: Impact on suicidal behavior
  • Comorbidity of bipolar disorder with alcohol and drug abuse, leading to suicidal behavior
  • Comorbid features of suicidal behavior, depression and alcohol abuse
• Suicide in the Military
  • Suicidal Behavior Among Peacekeepers: An International Perspective
  • Suicide and Mental Health Among Peacekeepers: A Review of the Literature
  • Suicidal Behaviour Among Current and Former Peacekeepers
  • Suicide Prevention in the Army
  • The Swiss System of Militia Army – A Suicide Risk?
  • The Occurrence of Suicide in the Hungarian Defense Force after the Abolition of Obligatory Regular Army Between 2005 and 2007 in Comparison with Previous Years. Suicide Prevention in the Military
  • Suicide Prevention in the Military
  • Suicide Prevention in a Top-Down Society
  • Preventing Suicide in the Military: Plenty of Room for Improvement
  • The Concept of Posttraumatic Mood Disorder and its Relation to Suicidal Behavior in War Veterans
  • Sleep Disturbances and Suicide Prevention in the Military
  • Suicidality and Suicide Prevention Among War Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Alcohol and Suicide
• Terror and Suicide
  • Terrorism and human behavior
  • The suicide bomber as martyr, weapon, and self-inflicted casualty of war: psychological, cultural, and organizational forces in suicide terrorism
  • Suicide terrorism
  • Grievance and the final act: the 7/7 bombers and suicide terrorism in the 21st century
  • Suicide of modern kamikazes
  • Suicidal terrorism and the impact of a terrorist attack on suicidal behavior in the general population
  • Terror and suicidal behavior in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder
  • The hierarchy of bereavement in israel - war victims, terror victims and suicide survivors
  • Traumatic brain injury and suicide
  • A double S: Stress and Suicide
  • PTSD: Posttraumatic Suicide Disorder?
  • The concept of posttraumatic mood disorder and its relation to suicidal behavior in war veterans
  • A case analysis based on the narrative of a survivor of the gulags
• War and Suicide
  • Understanding human behavior during war
  • People act, people make wars, people react: understanding human behavior during war
  • War, massive social change and suicide
  • War and depression
  • Mental disorder, war and suicide
  • They also serve who only stand and wait: suicide in wartime civilian populations
  • The netherlands and world war ii, jews and suicide
  • Stress and suicidal behavior
  • Post traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behavior
  • Medicalization of distress: Pros and cons
  • Bio-behavioral consequences of traumatic stress in childhood and adolescence: The effects of war on children's mental health, growth and development
  • Trauma and posttraumatic stress in child soldiers of world war II
  • Combat related physical injury and suicidal behavior
  • Deployment-acquired TBI and suicidality: Risk and assessment
  • Preventing suicidal behavior after traumatic brain injury
  • Suicide in veterans
  • Suicidal behavior in war veterans
  • The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviors as an explanation of suicide among war veterans
  • The concept of posttraumatic mood disorder and its relation to suicidal behavior in war veterans
  • Locating now: On historical trauma and the confusion of identity

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