Sun S. Kim(1), David Kalman(1,2), Gerardo Gonzalez(1) and Douglas Ziedonis(1) 1. University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 2. Edith Nourse Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. The […]
Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Mental Health Patient Care Center Director at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She received her PhD in Psychology and Neurochemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst […]
Amy L. Ai, PhD is Professor of the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she was tenured at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle) Health Sciences and also an affiliate researcher of the University of Michigan (UM, Ann Arbor) Health System. Dr. Ai has been the senior author of many peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and other writings […]
Paratz ED, Katz B.Med J Aust. 2011 Feb 21;194(4):194-7. In recent years, a phenomenon of “late effects of the Holocaust” has emerged, with impacts on the psychological and physical health of ageing Holocaust survivors. As Holocaust survivors age, they may experience heightened anxiety around normal processes of ageing, worsened post-traumatic stress disorder with cognitive decline, […]
Joav Merrick, M.D., MMedSci, D.M.Sc, is professor of pediatrics, child health and human development affiliated with Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and the Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Dr. Hristo Kozhuharov was born in 1966 in Varna, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in a German foreign language school in 1985, and received his M.D. degree from the Medical University of Varna in 1993. In 1997, he completed his training in Psychiatry. During the period July 1997 – November 1998, he specialized in […]
Joussineau S, Riddez L; Swedish Disaster Medicine Study Organization.Prehosp Disaster Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;21(2):117-8. A break in safety locks resulted in the release of high quantities of gamma and neutron radiation directly exposed three workers and indirectly exposed as many as 310,000 other persons. The two persons who received the highest doses ultimatley succumbed due to […]
Otani H, Kusumi T, Kato K, Matsuda K, Kern RP, Widner R Jr, Ohta N.Memory. 2005 Jan;13(1):6-20. Flashbulb memories are vivid memories of the details surrounding the discovery of an emotional event. We investigated whether the nuclear accident that occurred in Japan in 1999 produced flashbulb memories among people who lived near the accident site. […]
Allison Greene and Christopher Bailey After reading “Out of Camelot, Knights in White Coats Lose Way” we compared Dr. Jauhar’s report to our own perspectives on medicine. As medical research assistants and future medical students, we aspire to conduct our careers with the type of unwavering enthusiasm for medicine that we recognize in the physicians […]
Akashi M, Kumagaya K, Kondo H, Hirose Y.Health Phys. 2010 Jun;98(6):804-9. An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Niigata-Chuetsu region of Japan at 10:13 on 16 July 2007. The earthquake was followed by the sustained occurrence of numerous aftershocks, delaying the reconstruction of community lifelines. The earthquake affected the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power […]
