Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. Introduction This study based on an International Survey. In the past years Professor Aurel Nirestean, Emese Lukács and our colleagues made an examination in eight secondary schools and seven Universities in three countries. In the current study we did not investigate the psychiatric disorders but only the presence of sixteen psychological […]
Jeffrey Goltz, M.D. SSRIs are the first line pharmacological treatment for PTSD. However, the response rate with SSRIs alone is typically <60%, with between 20-40% of patients achieving full remission. Thus, many PTSD patients either have residual symptoms or are resistant to treatment with SSRIs. This article will briefly review evidence for use of antipsychotic […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A paper, “Association of coffee consumption with total and cause-specific mortality in three large prospective cohorts” has just been published in Circulation (1). The authors studied the associations of consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee with risk of subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 74,890 women in the Nurses’ Health Study […]
Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. Introduction This study based on a small part of an International Survey. In 2012-2013 years Professor Aurel Nirestean, Emese Lukács (Tirgu Mures, Romania) and our colleagues made an examination in eight secondary schools and seven Universities in three countries. This article contains only the examination of spirituality among secondary school students […]
Sher L, Siever LJ, Goodman M, McNamara M, Hazlett EA, Koenigsberg HW, New AS.Psychiatry Res. 2015 Oct 30;229(3):685-9. AbstractGender is an important variable in the study of mental health because of the actual and perceived differences between men and women. Relatively little is known how males and females differ in their manifestations of antisocial personality […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health was founded in 2013, according to my proposal. My proposal to create this Task Force was supported by the WFSBP leadership, especially by Professor Constantin Soldatos, then the President of the WFSBP. Currently, the WFSBP Task Force […]
Dinesh Sangroula, M.D., Muhammad Ovais, M.D., Bivek Wagle, B.S. Abstract Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic debilitating mental disorder, whose early diagnosis is crucial for patients’ better outcome. Since neuro-imaging techniques are rarely used for the management of schizophrenia in the clinical settings, the aim of this article is to provide a deeper insight about the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The article, “The Sorting Receptor SorCS1 Regulates Trafficking of Neurexin and AMPA Receptors” by Jeffrey N. Savas, Luís F. Ribeiro, Keimpe D. Wierda, Rebecca Wright, Laura A. DeNardo-Wilke, Heather C. Rice, Ingrid Chamma, Yi-Zhi Wang, Roland Zemla, Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, Kristel M. Vennekens, Matthew L. O’Sullivan, Joseph K. Antonios, Elizabeth A. Hall, Olivier […]
Savas JN, Ribeiro LF, Wierda KD, Wright R, DeNardo-Wilke LA, Rice HC, Chamma I, Wang YZ, Zemla R, Lavallée-Adam M, Vennekens KM, O’Sullivan ML, Antonios JK, Hall EA, Thoumine O, Attie AD, Yates JR 3rd, Ghosh A, de Wit J.Neuron. 2015 Aug 19;87(4):764-80. Abstract. The formation, function, and plasticity of synapses require dynamic changes in […]
Scott A. Laurenzo, Jess G Fiedorowicz, M.D., Ph.D. Disasters, wars, and other devastating events have the potential to cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This diversity of events and settings may influence study of the disease’s course. With regard to natural disasters, current research over-emphasizes the short-term effects of single events covering large areas such as […]
