Hoop JG, Smyth AC, Roberts LW.Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2008 Jan;17(1):127-48 Psychiatric research on children and adolescents is ethically justified by the need to reduce the burden that mental illnesses place on young people, their families, and society. Such research must […]
Jarrett M, Bowers L, Simpson A.Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.J Adv Nurs. 2008 Dec;64(6):538-48. AIM: This paper is a report of a narrative review of the coercive use of medication in inpatient psychiatric care to identify a demographic and clinical profile of patients who are forcibly medicated, and to […]
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. –Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Ter Kuile MM, Both S, van Uden J.Leiden University Medical Center-Outpatient Clinic for Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Sexology, Department of Gynaecology, Leiden, The NetherlandsJ Sex Med. 2009 Dec 1. Introduction. In depressed women, common sexual difficulties include decreased sexual desire, sexual arousal and orgasmic difficulties, reduced sexual satisfaction, and reduced sexual pleasure. Experimental research on the […]
Krueger RB.Sexual Behavior Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USAArch Sex Behav. 2009 Dec 8. I reviewed the empirical literature for 1900-2008 on the paraphilia of Sexual Sadism for the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup for the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The […]
Pujols Y, Meston CM, Seal BN.The University of Texas at Austin-Department of Psychology, Austin, Texas, USA.J Sex Med. 2009 Nov 24. Introduction. Although sexual functioning has been linked to sexual satisfaction, it only partially explains the degree to which women report being sexually satisfied. Other factors include quality of life, relational variables, and individual factors […]
As a Nurse Scientist and a Gerontologist, my interest is cognitive aging and memory loss. A major focus of this research has been to understand the aging brain and how the subjective evaluation of memory may lead to cognitive decline. My research utilizes Self-Efficacy Theory to explain the cognitive difficulties experienced by older adults who […]
Kaasinen V, Halme J, Alho H. TYKS:n neurologian klinikka ja Valtakunnallinen PET-keskus, Turku. Duodecim. 2009;125(19):2075-83. Approximately one third of problem gamblers in Finland suffer from pathological gambling. An essential factor affecting the genesis of pathological gambling is a dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward system. It may be associated with the pleasure arising from gambling along […]
Vachon DD, Bagby RM. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA. Psychol Assess. 2009 Dec;21(4):608-15. Although pathological gambling (PG) is regarded in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as a unitary diagnostic construct, it is likely composed of distinct subtypes. In the current report, the […]
Children of Fate, in the same breathCreated were they, Love and Death.Such fair creations ne’er were seen, Or here below, or in the heaven serene.The first, the source of happiness,The fount whence flows the greatest blissThat in the sea of being e’er is found;The last each sorrow gently lulls,Each harsh decree of Fate annuls.Fair child […]
