Katie Vasey and Lenore Manderson School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. In this chapter, we highlight the social and cultural factors that shape the experiences, responses to and understandings […]
María Dolores Braquehais(1) and Leo Sher(2) 1. Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain 2. Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. Trauma is a widespread experience, […]
María Dolores Braquehais, M.D., Ph.D. There is an increasing evidence of the effects of childhood trauma in the developing brain of children and adolescents (1). Child maltreatment (or child abuse and neglect) substantially contributes to child mortality and morbidity and has long-lasting effects on mental health, drug and alcohol misuse (especially in girls), risky sexual […]
María Dolores Braquehais Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. The concern about the recent increase of behaviors related to a lack of self-control in industrialised and post-industrialised societies is linked to the […]
Dana Galler Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, New York, New York, USA Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refugees. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010, 350 pages. Physical attractiveness is a significant predictor of important life outcomes, since attractive adults tend to receive more attention and […]
Yehuda R, Golier JA, Bierer LM, Mikhno A, Pratchett LC, Burton CL, Makotkine I, Devanand DP, Pradhaban G, Harvey PD, Mann JJ.Psychiatry Res. 2010 Nov 30;184(2):117-27 Neuroendocrine, cognitive and hippocampal alterations have been described in Gulf War (GW) veterans, but their inter-relationships and significance for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have not been described. Hydrocortisone (Hcort) […]
My main area of research is women with alcohol addiction: treatment and long term outcome. Why is this topic so important? My answers are the following: More women drink, and they drink more when drinking. Also, they start drinking at a younger age, and continue drinking through a longer lifespan. Women with alcohol addiction have […]
Vaage AB, Thomsen PH, Rousseau C, Wentzel-Larsen T, Ta TV, Hauff E.Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2011 Jan 10;5(1):2. BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transmission of trauma as a determinant of mental health has been studied in the offspring of Holocaust survivors and combat veterans, and in refugee families. Mainly negative effects on the children are reported, while […]
Kalmár Sándor M.D. Ph.D. “If we teach more we must cure less.” (József Fodor) The pedagogue society is in a crisis in Hungary. The Hungarian education system produces below-average results with above-average costs while reproducing the above average inequalities. Earlier primary and secondary school teachers and especially formmasters paid a significant role in the function […]
Ioana Todor is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Alba Iulia, Romania. She received her MSc in Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy from “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The topic of the thesis was “Memory Inhibition of Alcohol-Related Words in Alcohol Dependent Individuals”. In 2009, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation on Directed-Forgetting of Social Stereotypes. […]
