Leo Sher, M.D. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first device based on brain function to help diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents 6 to 17 years old. The device can help establish an ADHD diagnosis. It should be used as part of a complete medical and psychological evaluation. The […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. In 2009, Leo Sher and Alex Vilens published two books on suicide in the context of the military and war. In the books, aspects of military life and war were discussed as potential triggers for suicide. As a contributing author, I argued that despite decades of failure to bring down suicide rates, […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D., Ph.D. Suicide is a serious public health problem. However, we need to realize that suicide is preventable. Most suicide are associated with diagnosable mental disorders, mainly treatable depressive disorders but other psychological, psychiatric, cultural, social and spiritual factors also play role in the development of suicidal behavior. For example, negative life events, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. In Fall 2012, Dr. Celia Franco sent an invitation to the Members of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Dual Disorders/Pathology to attend the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association on Dual Pathology on February 21-22, 2013 in Coimbra, Portugal. It was proposed to organize a special session of the WPA […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Founded in 1974, the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) is a non-profit worldwide organization composed of 63 National Societies of Biological Psychiatry and individual members representing professionals from over 70 countries. The WFSBP has created a significant number of Task Forces to address various clinical and scientific issues. The […]
Gale CR, Batty GD, McIntosh AM, Porteous DJ, Deary IJ, Rasmussen F.Mol Psychiatry. 2013 Feb;18(2):190-4. AbstractAnecdotal and biographical reports have long suggested that bipolar disorder is more common in people with exceptional cognitive or creative ability. Epidemiological evidence for such a link is sparse. We investigated the relationship between intelligence and subsequent risk of hospitalisation […]
Paulus EJ, Argo TR, Egge JA.J Trauma Stress. 2013 Jan 31. doi: 10.1002/jts.21785. [Epub ahead of print] AbstractHyperarousal is a hallmark of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD has been associated with increased blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) in veteran populations. We retrospectively identified male patients consulted to outpatient psychiatry at the Iowa City […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. The process of policy formation is by default a political one. The main reason is that national and local resources are finite but more importantly controlled by politicians. The fact that politicians are elected by the public and have unlimited access to a wide range of scientific tools and/or scientists to seek […]
Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D. The Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, was one of the most severe earthquakes ever recorded in Japan. It led to a tsunami that devastated large portions of coastal Japan, particularly Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. In response to this event, firefighters […]
Jane E. Persons, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., Ph.D. Omega-3 fatty acids, particularly docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosahexaenoic acid (EPA), have been suggested to have a protective effect on mental health. The United States Institute of Medicine recommends a daily combined intake of DHA and EPA of 100 mg (1); however, it has been suggested that […]
